Manager - Platinion - Financial Services or Insurance

This role is for a Manager within BCG Platinion, focused on leading digital transformation and IT strategy projects for clients in the financial services and insurance sectors.

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

As a seamlessly integrated part of the BCG network, BCG Platinion provides 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. Our style is entrepreneurial - nimble and innovative, with multifaceted, cross-functional teams and completely vendor-independent.

As a Manager, you will work closely with our client's leadership teams to understand their key challenges, define IT strategies, win buy-in for your recommendations and lead BCG case team members to transform client potential into performance. You will deploy customized IT strategies, digital platforms and architecture 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 giving direction on the functional, execution and management of the project you will be given end-to-end responsibility for larger, highly technical and more complex modules within the project and begin to develop specialized knowledge to help you solve our clients problems.

Together with our clients you will develop convincing IT strategies, concepts and solutions, applying your sound technical know-how along with your analytical and conceptual skills. You will start to take on team lead responsibilities and demonstrate intellectual leadership directing diverse teams of consulting talent. Your role will also be to help team members flourish through thought leadership, 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. Finally, as a Manager you will contribute to the Practice Area development and help to build the BCG brand as a digital leader.

What You'll Bring

• 10 to 15 years' experience in Tech strategy and consulting or IT project management.
• 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.
• Experience in the insurance or finance industries, with strong technical expertise in banking or insurance platforms.
• Strong expertise working with data and cloud technologies.
• Ability to balance dogmatism and pragmatism to guide decision making.
• Able to present different architecture models to clients, develop MVP architecture and IT landscape modernisation roadmaps.
• Deep expertise with modern toolsets 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 with, and understand how to lead, legacy integration and remediation (facades, strangler approaches, et. al.).
• Ability to work under pressure and willingness to travel to clients world-wide.
• University degree with above-average academic performance in a mathematical-scientific field, information technology, engineering, or business administration.
• For candidates based in London: Fluent in English.
• For candidates based in The Netherlands: Fluent in English; Dutch is highly desirable.
• For candidates based in Belgium: Fluent in English, with French or Flemish as an additional requirement.