Expert Project Leader

Job Description

Location:

Bengaluru, New Delhi

Geography:

Asia Pacific

Capabilities:

Technology & digital

Industries:

Technology industries

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 work closely with clients to embrace a transformational approach aimed at benefiting all stakeholders—empowering organizations to grow, build sustainable competitive advantage, and drive positive societal impact.
Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives that question the status quo and spark change. BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting, technology and design, and corporate and digital ventures. We work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, fueled by the goal of helping our clients thrive and enabling them to make the world a better place.

Digital BCG

BCG has a long history of driving growth by embracing innovation and new ways of thinking. Through DigitalBCG, we bring together a diverse mix of consultants and digital specialists to ensure that we are supporting our clients throughout their digital transformation journeys. We work with our clients to fully understand the impact of digital on their business and set priorities that will transform their vision into value. Whether it be developing new technologies to support their core business, making better use of their data, or pursuing entirely new sources of revenue, our aim is to achieve radical improvements in productivity, flexibility, and speed. We are innovating how our clients are using artificial intelligence, robotic process automation, internet of things, personalization, blockchain technologies, and more to gain competitive advantage.

DigitalBCG encompasses a broad set of data, digital, and technology capabilities from BCG consulting teams and practices, along with our business units such as BCG Digital Ventures, BCG Platinion, and BCG GAMMA.

Practice Area Profile

BCG’s Technology Advantage (TA) practice focuses on helping clients deliver competitive advantage and business superior performance through the use of data, technology and digital. TA is the fastest growing practice at BCG and at the heart of the strategic impact we have with our clients. Our consultants and experts globally work across all industries and provide deep experience and expertise across a number of topics including: * Digital Transformation * Data & Digital Platforms * Software & Agile * Digitizing the Tech Function

What You'll Do

Interested in addressing our clients’ most strategic and difficult challenges? Ready to bring your Agile expertise to clients who are transforming their ways of working? Excited to work with a team of senior executives one day, and a scrum team the next to advance a transformation on all levels? We are looking for a Senior Agile Coach / Agile Delivery Manager / Senior Agile Delivery Manager who would be representing the BCG/ DigitalBCG brand, working at different levels and project portfolios, with deep exposure to our client senior executives.

In this role, you will work as part of a cross-functional joint BCG-client team, collaborating across Agile teams, their managers, senior leaders, and shared services/control functions to change work routines and optimize flow. You will provide insights on Agile concepts, values, culture, behaviors, and practices, and engage hands-on, supporting key Agile project roles to help clients teams implement or accelerate Agile transformations.

Together with national and international clients you will define new ways of working based on Agile principles and actively steer the implementation of such initiatives. Using your sound Agile experience, understanding of business contexts, your technology background, and analytical and conceptual skills, you have the chance to make a big impact on enterprises during key digital transformations.

A Senior Agile Delivery Manager takes responsibility for the manager role in multiple projects. You will also participate in new project proposal activities related to agile promotion and activities such as building relationships with new clients.

Typical tasks include the following:

• Tailoring Agile frameworks and functional concepts for client implementation (including DevOps thoughts)
• Agile maturity assessments of clients
• Definition of change management strategies and implementation plans
• Temporarily taking on Feature Owner/Scrum Master roles in client teams or coaching client managers in these roles
• Restructuring of organizations and core processes to facilitate Agile work principles
• Directly supporting Agile client teams’ delivery against key sprint or quality goals

What You'll Bring (Experience & Qualifications)

• 5-8 years’ experience with a strategy, management, or technology consulting firm and/or within a large corporate digital environment
  • Ideally in an enterprise agile coaching, enterprise agility lead, agile transformation lead or senior agile coaching capacity
• Professional experience in the execution and management of (sub)projects:
  • Experience as a project or team-lead, managing small to mid-size teams (>3 people)
  • Proven experience leading agile transformation projects, driving enterprise agility at scale from advisory, design to implementation
  • Experience in building framework/ playbooks utilizing multiple agile approaches to build a culturally relevant approach to agile adoption
  • Track record of delivering results as part of or leading an Agile team
  • Effective senior relationship management coupled with the ability to coach senior leaders
  • Strong leadership skills with credible experience leading and mentoring high performing teams
  • not required
• Excellent communication, client facing and consulting skills
• Strategic mindset, presence, and gravitas
• Strong communication and presentation skills showcasing mental agility
• Flexibility, ability to work under pressure and willingness to travel (as/ if necessary, with required COVID precautions)

Date Posted:

01-Jun-2021

Boston Consulting Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under national, provincial, or local law, where applicable, and those with criminal histories will be considered in a manner consistent with applicable state and local laws.
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