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Who We Are

About BCG Platinion

BCG Platinion's presence spans across the globe, with offices in Asia, Europe, and South and North America. We achieve digital excellence for clients with sustained solutions to the most complex and time-sensitive challenge. We guide clients into the future to push the status quo, overcome tech limitations, and enable our clients to go further in their digital journeys than what has ever been possible in the past. At BCG Platinion, we deliver business value through the innovative use of technology at a rapid pace. We roll up our sleeves to transform business, revolutionize approaches, satisfy customers, and change the game through Architecture, Cybersecurity, Digital Transformation, Enterprise Application and Risk functions. We balance vision with a pragmatic path to change transforming strategies into leading-edge tech platforms, at scale.

What You'll Do

• Program Management & Governance
  
  • Managing large-scale ERP (or similar) projects.
  • Developing nuanced transformation roadmaps, cost estimation, and resource plans across internal and external parties.
  • Defining both global and local deployment, program governance, and quality assurance strategies.
• Maximizing Business Value on Tech Investments
  • Linking financial performance (e.g., distribution costs) and business strategy (e.g., logistics optimization) to digital solutions (e.g., TMS enhancements).
  • Articulating and quantifying value cases for large tech investments, such as ERP programs.
  • Optimizing value realization in ERP and similar solutions.
• Solution Architecture & Design
  • Evaluating an organization'sIT, enterprise applications, data, analytics, integration, and AI solutions, particularly as it relates to packaged software platforms (ERP, CRM, HCM, EAM, MDG, SRM, TMS, WMS, etc.).
  • Translating business needs into target state system requirements.
  • Recommending packaged software vendors, modules, and configurations tailored to a client's particular industry and context.
  • Restructuring ERP, HCM, EAM, CRM, etc. processes (functional and/or technical).
  • Developing infrastructure approaches, including service-oriented architectures (SOA), and high-level design of ERP and related solutions, whether deployed on cloud, on-prem, or hybrid.
• Organizational Change
  • Restructuring business/tech processes and organization/operating models within an ERP (or related) construct.
  • Supporting tech functions during mergers and acquisitions, including the functional and technical transformation of an organization's IT department.
  • Developing team's talent by providing direction and facilitating technical discussions.

What You'll Bring

• Bachelor's or master's degree in mathematics, engineering, information technology, business management, or relevant field.
  
• 4+ years of practical experience in IT/ERP consulting, professional software development, or IT project management with a focus on one or more of the following:
  
  • SAP
    
  • Salesforce
    
  • Oracle (Financials, NetSuite, Fusion, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, etc.)
    
  • Workday
    
• Experience in business process design and configuration.
  
• Previous experience with independently managing modules/workstreams in two or more end-to-end ERP implementations in a waterfall or agile setting.
  
• Proven responsibility as a team lead within a single module (e.g., OTC, Finance, Procurement) during at least one project phase (Design, Build, Test, Deploy).
  
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
  
• Outstanding analytical and conceptual skills.
  
• Experience with the management of decision processes at large organizations.
  
• Strong customer and results orientation.
  
• Confidence and persuasiveness.
  
• Experience managing large, complex projects.
  
• Gen AI tool fluency (e.g., proven usage of GenAI such as ChatGPT, Claude) and validation of response.
  
• Willingness to travel around the globe to work with clients and BCG teams. At times, this role involves significant travel to client sites. The amount of travel will depend on client needs and nature of projects.

Additional info

What We Offer:

At BCG, we care about our people, and offer best in class benefits to support you personally and professionally including:

• An opportunity to work organically across disciplines and across BCG, we offer a unified and unrivaled opportunity that combines strategic thinking with hands-on applications.
• A unique experience to work alongside a team of passionate and driven problem-solvers with a mission to deliver innovative and valuable digital solutions in a supportive environment.

For U.S. Applicants:

The first year base compensation for this role is $150,000 in USD.

In addition to your base salary, you will be eligible for an annual discretionary performance bonus and a retirement contribution. BCG also provides a market leading benefits package described below.

At BCG, we are committed to offering a comprehensive benefit program that includes everything our employees and their families need to be well and live life to the fullest. We pay the full cost of medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees - and their eligible family members.* That's zero dollars in premiums taken from employee paychecks. All our plans provide best in class coverage:

• Zero-dollar ($0) health insurance premiums for BCG employees, spouses, and children.
• $10 (USD) copays for trips to the doctor, urgent care visits and prescriptions for generic drugs.
• Dental coverage, including up to $5,000 (USD) in orthodontia benefits.
• Vision insurance with coverage for both glasses and contact lenses annually.
• Reimbursement for gym memberships and other fitness activities.
• Fully vested retirement contributions made annually, whether you contribute or not.
• Generous paid time off including vacation, holidays, and annual office closure between Christmas and New Years.
• Paid Parental Leave and other family benefits such as elective egg freezing, surrogacy, and adoption reimbursement.

*Employees, spouses, and children are covered at no cost. Employees share in the cost of domestic partner coverage.

To learn more about our employee benefits please check our Benefits page.

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