IT Principal, BCG Platinion - Boston Consulting Group - Bruxelles
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Who We Are
Boston Consulting Group partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities. BCG was the pioneer in business strategy when it was founded in 1963. Today, we help clients with total transformation-inspiring complex change, enabling organizations to grow, building competitive advantage, and driving bottom-line impact.
To succeed, organizations must blend digital and human capabilities. Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives to spark change. BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting along with technology and design, corporate and digital ventures—and business purpose. We work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, generating results that allow our clients to thrive.
BCG Platinion
As a seamlessly integrated part of the BCG network, we provide consulting services focused on the development and implementation of business-critical IT architecture and digital solutions. We create technology platforms and deliver exceptionally customized solutions of the future for our clients, from data strategies to next-generation customer journey solutions and transformational business models. We solve the most daunting challenges that companies face today and envision for tomorrow. Our style is entrepreneurial – nimble and innovative, with multifaceted, cross-functional teams and completely vendor-independent. Our unique selling proposition is technology expertise and delivery excellence.
Platinion was founded in 2000. Since then, we have grown continuously and successfully. Today we have offices in Europe, North and South America, Asia Pacific and Africa.
Practice Area Profile
BCG Platinion launched in Germany in 2000 to add deep technical expertise to the Boston Consulting Group’s existing capabilities. Today, our presence spans across the globe, with offices in Asia, Europe, and South and North America. Our New York-based North American team began in 2014 and in 2017 acquired MAYA Design, a Pittsburgh-based digital design and innovation lab, to grow our capabilities around technology and design. We support our clients’ total digital transformation through technology, design, cybersecurity, and risk management & financial engineering capabilities. And together with BCG, BCG Platinion’s interdisciplinary team of technical experts enable customized technical solutions and accelerate delivery value through new business platforms, application consolidations, and major system implementations.
What You'll Do
At BCG Platinion we're keen to engage with experienced, passionate and creative technology consultants & IT professionals who will help us unlock our client’s digital potential and ignite change. Meaningful and impactful work is at the core of everything we do. We build unique solutions to the complexities our clients face, while providing our people with opportunities to explore and grow. A community of experts, BCG Platinion team members have a natural springboard for professional growth and deeper opportunities to excel.
As a Principal, you will work in an international environment, closely with our client’s leadership teams to understand their key challenges, define IT strategies, win buy-in for your recommendations and lead fellow BCG case team members to transform client potential into performance with high-impact assignments.
You will deploy customized IT strategies, digital platforms and architecture in order to leverage the digital potential of our customers with state of the art tools such as cloud computing, AI, blockchain, microservices and containerization. You will evaluate and coach our clients’ technology teams, manage quality and risk while maintaining client expectations and escalations.
Besides the functional guidance of the project team you will also be operationally responsible for the execution and management of the solution. Together with our clients you will develop convincing IT strategies, concepts and solutions that have a lasting impact on the organization, operating model, digital, and/or data landscape.
You will manage diverse teams of consulting talent. Your role will be to help those teams flourish by provoking thought, team mentoring, knowledge sharing, giving frequent feedback and creating opportunities for team members to learn and grow. You will also personally develop and grow by being exposed to new and complex challenges daily.
Clients will also seek your advice as a thought leader on business issues that extend beyond the immediate scope of you project work.
Finally as a Principal you will contribute to the Practice Area development and help to build the BCG brand as a digital leader.
What You'll Bring (Experience & Qualifications)
At least 12 years of experience in IT Strategy and consulting, professional software development or IT project management- You will have relevant experience from a top consulting firm (focused on technology, digital initiatives) and have led the design and management of IT implementation and strategy projects
- A strategic thinker, entrepreneurial, able to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment
- Outstanding analytical and conceptual skills, strong customer focus and mental agility with a results orientation
- Preferred experience in one or more of the following industries:
- Industrial Goods
- Insurance
- Healthcare
- Financial Institutions
- Private Insurance
- Private Equity
- Energy
- Consumer Products
- Public Sector
- Experience with the management of decision process at C-Level
- Deep expertise with modern tool-sets in Agile environments, legacy modernization and modern approaches to technology
- Know-how to drive operational and client service excellence, presenting project results to C-Level
- Experience in the organization of workshops at peer level and facilitating in client meetings
- Experience in one or more of the following:
- IT Modernization; Solution & Enterprise Architecture
- Marketing, Sales & Service Platforms (CRM)
- Physical & Digital Channels (Including Mobile)
- ERP (SAP) &Manufacturing Platforms
- Banking & Insurance Platforms
- People, HR, Collaboration Platforms
- Applied Intelligence, Machine Learning, RPA, Chatbots, Blockchain, IOT
- DevOps & Bimodal IT
- Data Analytics, Big Data, Data Platforms
- Cyber Security
- Strong business acumen; can frame complex problems in appropriate business contexts
- A University degree with above average academic performance in a STEM related field or business management
- Fluent in English, French, and/or Dutch
Who You'll Work With
BCG Managing Directors and Partners (MDP’s)
- Platinion Managing Directors (MD’s)
- BCG Consultants at all levels
- Platinion Consultants at all levels
- Clients, vendors, partners