Job Description
Who We Are Boston Consulting Group (BCG) is a global consulting firm that partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities. Our success depends on a spirit of deep collaboration and a global community of diverse individuals determined to make the world and each other better every day. BCG’s Tech and Digital Advantage (TDA) practice focuses on helping clients deliver competitive advantage and business superior performance through data, technology and digital. BCG Platinion sits within the TDA practice and is 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 in a wide variety of topics including Digital Transformation, Data & Digital Platforms, AI at Scale, Cybersecurity and Digitizing the Tech Function. 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 Collaborative. They are interdisciplinary team players who seek alignment and establish relationships ranging from cross‑functional stakeholder groups to existing teams. Agile advocates. They are well‑versed in Agile methodologies and use their expertise to strategically tackle difficult challenges and implement change. Comfortable with ambiguity. They know the path forward isn’t always well‑defined. They are comfortable and confident working through the unknown. Technical experts. They are critical thinkers and have extensive IT expertise that drives novel solutions routed in complexity. Change agents. They know how to make change happen across an organization. They can align and onboard teams to implement new processes and toolsets. They embrace complex challenges and guide an organization to optimize IT best practices. Influencers. They build strong relationships to build trust and influence stakeholders. You’re Good At Planning Platform Solution Design and Deployment Developing feasibility studies, assessing platform suitability (e.g., Kinaxis vs. o9) and issuing recommendations. Supporting core planning process redesign and alignment with platform capabilities. Leading technical demonstrations and proof‑of‑concept sessions for prospective clients. Developing functional and non‑functional requirements for planning platforms. Leading full lifecycle implementations for Advanced Planning Systems (APS) in Supply Chain. Hands‑on experience designing and deploying UI/UX and Kinaxis configuration to support one or more of the following: IBP/S&OP, Demand/Supply Planning, Inventory Management, Order Fulfillment, Control Tower. Experience conducting data discovery, mapping, transformation and normalization for APS use cases. Developing integrated solution architecture designs for APS, ensuring integration with enterprise systems such as ERP, HRIS, and data platforms and warehouses, as well as custom analytics and insight applications (e.g., AI/ML prediction engines). Designing and implementing data integration patterns that allow for secure, performant and fast time‑to‑value deployments. Creating implementation roadmaps, scoping and sizing effort for APS programs. Ensuring that APS align with evolving technology landscapes (e.g., S/4HANA migration dependencies). Providing expert guidance on tooling options, offering clear, actionable insights into the advantages and trade‑offs of each. Program Management, Value Realization and Business Impact Leading the creation of client‑specific strategic materials, surfacing key insights gathered from technical experts and observations. Translating technical findings into business impact and opportunities that drive measurable improvements. Effectively codifying messaging and data into presentable materials and being comfortable delivering communications output in an efficient manner – accuracy and speed are critical to success of fast‑