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Associate Director, Technology, Media, & Telecommunications

Geplaatst 25 mrt. 2024
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12 tot 15 jaar
Full-time / part-time
Full-time
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Associate Director, Technology, Media, & Telecommunications

Amsterdam

Full-time

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.

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

As an Associate Director, you will focus on three main pillars:

Technical Delivery: Someone who is steeped in architectural design and build specifically focused in the Technology and/or Media industries. While BCG consults in a number of practice areas, the industry lens at this level is a key differentiator in bringing value to clients.

Commercial acumen: The ability to connect technical and digital deliverables to real business value and drive revenue for the firm.

People leadership: Taking a vested interest in all levels of BCG Platinion to make sure our people are succeeding, thriving, and advancing their careers. Act as leader, role model and mentor for the overall team and dedicated mentees/ advisees.

Additional activities include:

• Build, evolve, and manage the BCG Platinion business in Amsterdam and across Western Europe, South America and Africa

• Offer and promote BCG Platinion services to clients and prospects, and acquire new clients for BCG Platinion

• Build trustful and sustainable senior client relationships guided by the highest ethical standards

• Develop and negotiate client project proposals and their commercial aspects

• Develop and execute projects, and control their execution with regard to client satisfaction and holistic project quality

• Develop leading edge offerings for BCG Platinion's market critical capabilities

• Contribute to differentiating IP- and knowledge-build within BCG Platinion

• Be recognized as a thought leader and expert in their domain inside and outside BCG Platinion

• Make substantial contributions to the commercial success and profitable growth of BCG Platinion

• Attract and build the BCG Platinion team, and drive recruiting and retention of senior and junior talent

• Provides strategic direction and vision for BCG Platinion and inspires employees at all levels to deliver it

• Collaborate with other Associate Directors, Managing Directors, and BCG partners in joint Go-to-Market and underlying strategy of BCG Platinion

• Live the BCG Platinion values and represent and nurture the BCG Platinion culture internally and market-facing

What You'll Bring (Experience & Qualifications)

We’re looking for exceptional talent from consulting, industry or both to join us. You would typically have:

• 12+ years of experience

• Bachelor’s degree required; Advanced degree preferred

• Long-Standing Experience in Large-scale IT implementation, IT architecture, Digitization of client journeys, and Agile Transformation from Selling through Design to successful Delivery

• Deep content knowledge ideally in engineering

• Industry experience in Technology and/or Media

• Lead tech teams across the entire lifecycle including software engineering and technology architecture

• Experience working as a Chief Transformation Officer with significant tech knowledge

• Consulting experience combined with knowledge of working for a tech start up is highly desired

• Significant experience and political acumen having worked in complex, bureaucratic FTSE 100 organizations

• Strong commercial acumen with the ability to drive revenue

• Analytical and structured way of thinking and working

• Ability to combine analytical and creative problem-solving

• Proven ability to translate the business strategy and objectives into execution of business results

• Ability to work cross functionally in a highly matrixed and Agile environment

Who You'll Work With

• BCG Managing Directors and Partners (MDP’s)

• PLA Managing Directors (MD’s)

• BCG Consultants at all levels

• PLA Consultants at all levels

• Clients, vendors, partners

Since its inception in 1963, BCG has been at the forefront of business management. Many of our ideas and concepts—such as time-based competition, the growth/share matrix, capabilities-based competition, and the experience curve—have had such a fundamental impact on the success of corporations that they have become central to the business lexicon. BCG continues to lead the way on issues at the vanguard of management thinking and practice.

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