AI Tech Consultant - Enterprise Solutions

<p class="job-description-header">Who We Are</p><div><a href="https://www.bcg.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Boston Consulting Group (BCG)</a> 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. </div><div> </div><div>BCG's Tech and Digital Advantage (TDA) practice focuses on helping clients deliver competitive advantage and superior business performance through the use of data, technology and digital. Platinion 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, AI at Scale, Agile, Cybersecurity and Digitizing the Tech Function. </div><div> </div><div>At BCG, we bring together the right people to conquer complexity, drive material change, and initiate positive, long-term impact. Explore our <a href="https://careers.bcg.com/bcg-culture" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BCG Culture and Values</a> for more information. </div><br><p><span><strong><span>About BCG Platinion</span></strong></span></p><p> </p><p>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.</p><br><p class="job-description-header">What You'll Do</p><div><p>Enterprise Solutions AI Tech Consultants at BCG Platinion are:</p><ul><li>Collaborative. They are interdisciplinary team players who seek alignment and establish relationships ranging from cross-functional stakeholder groups to development teams.</li><li>Strategic thinkers. They are well-versed in performance analysis and use their expertise to tackle difficult business challenges.</li><li>Technical experts. They are critical thinkers and have extensive IT and digital expertise that drives novel solutions rooted in complexity.</li><li>Comfortable with ambiguity. They know the best path forward isn’t always well-defined. They are comfortable and confident working through the unknown.</li><li>Change agents. They know how to make change happen across an organization. They can align and onboard teams to implement new processes, toolsets, and IT operating models.</li><li>Influencers. They build strong relationships to build trust and influence stakeholders.</li></ul>You’re Good At: </div><ul><li>Program Management & Governance <br><ul><li>Managing large-scale ERP (or similar) projects. </li><li>Developing nuanced transformation roadmaps, cost estimation, and resource plans across internal and external parties. </li><li>Defining both global and local deployment, program governance, and quality assurance strategies. </li></ul></li><li>Maximizing Business Value on Tech Investments<ul><li>Linking financial performance (e.g., distribution costs) and business strategy (e.g., logistics optimization) to digital solutions (e.g., TMS enhancements). </li><li>Articulating and quantifying value cases for large tech investments, such as ERP programs.</li><li>Optimizing value realization in ERP and similar solutions. </li></ul></li><li>Solution Architecture & Design <ul><li>Evaluating an organization’s IT, enterprise applications, data, analytics, integration, and AI solutions, particularly as it relates to packaged software platforms (ERP, CRM, HCM, EAM, MDG, SRM, TMS, WMS, etc.).</li><li>Translating business needs into target state system requirements. </li><li>Recommending packaged software vendors, modules, and configurations tailored to a client’s particular industry and context. </li><li>Restructuring ERP, HCM, EAM, CRM, etc. processes (functional and/or technical). </li><li>Developing infrastructure approaches, including service-oriented architectures (SOA), and high-level design of ERP and related solutions, whether deployed on cloud, on-prem, or hybrid.</li></ul></li><li>Organizational Change <ul><li>Restructuring business/tech processes and organization/operating models within an ERP (or related) construct.</li><li>Supporting tech functions during mergers and acquisitions, including the functional and technical transformation of an organization’s IT department.</li><li>Developing team’s talent by providing direction and facilitating technical discussions.</li></ul></li></ul><br><br><p class="job-description-header">What You'll Bring</p><ul><li>Bachelor's or master's degree in mathematics, engineering, information technology, business management, or relevant field.</li><li>2+ years of practical experience in IT/ERP consulting, professional software development, or IT project management with a focus on one or more of the following: <br><ul><li>SAP </li><li>Salesforce </li><li>Oracle (Financials, NetSuite, Fusion, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, etc.) </li><li>Workday </li></ul></li><li>Experience in business process design and configuration. </li><li>Previous experience with independently managing modules/workstreams in two or more end-to-end ERP implementations in a waterfall or agile setting. </li><li>Proven responsibility as a team lead within a single module (e.g., OTC, Finance, Procurement) during at least one project phase (Design, Build, Test, Deploy).   </li><li>Excellent communication and presentation skills. </li><li>Outstanding analytical and conceptual skills. </li><li>Experience with the management of decision processes at large organizations. </li><li>Strong customer and results orientation. </li><li>Confidence and persuasiveness. </li><li>Experience managing large, complex projects. </li><li>Gen AI tool fluency (e.g., proven usage of GenAI such as ChatGPT, Claude) and validation of response. </li><li>Willingness to travel around the globe to work with clients and BCG teams. At times, this role involves significant travel to client sites. The amount of travel will depend on client needs and nature of projects. </li></ul><br><br><p class="job-description-header">Additional info</p><p>What We Offer: </p><p> </p><p>At BCG, we care about our people, and offer best in class benefits to support you personally and professionally including: </p><ul><li>An opportunity to work organically across disciplines and across BCG, we offer a unified and unrivaled opportunity that combines strategic thinking with hands-on applications.</li><li>A unique experience to work alongside a team of passionate and driven problem-solvers with a mission to deliver innovative and valuable digital solutions in a supportive environment.  </li></ul><p>The first year base compensation for this role is $110,000 CAD. </p><p>At BCG, we believe that supporting the health and well-being of our employees and their families is essential. That’s why we offer a comprehensive benefits program designed to help you live life to the fullest. BCG pays 100% of the premium costs for employees and their eligible family members. This means zero dollars are deducted from your paycheck for core health benefits.</p><p>Our employee benefit plan provides best in class coverage, including:</p><ul><li>Zero dollar ($0) health insurance premiums for BCG employees, spouses, and children.</li><li>100% coverage for prescription drugs, with no dispensing fee maximum.</li><li>Access to Telemedicine – virtual care when you need it.</li><li>Substantial mental health support, including mental health practitioner coverage and access to meditation and well-being apps.</li><li>Dental coverage, including orthodontia benefits for children and adults.</li><li>Robust vision coverage.</li><li>Flexible Spending Account for additional medical and wellbeing activities.</li><li>Retirement contributions made annually (whether you contribute or not), plus the option for employees to make personal contributions to an RRSP Plan.</li><li>Premier Family programs including, paid parental and family care leaves, and reimbursement for fertility, surrogacy, and adoption expenses.</li><li>Generous paid time off, including 10 public holidays and 2 floater days, office closure between Christmas and New Year’s, and 15 vacation days (earned at 1.25 days per month) annually.</li><li>Paid sick time on an as needed basis.</li></ul><p>This posting is for a new role. BCG is committed to a positive recruitment experience for all candidates and as part of that, has partnered with iCIMS and Eightfold.ai, using artificial intelligence (AI) as part of our overall recruitment process. An independent audit of the Eightfold Matching Model tool can be found at <a href="https://eightfold.ai/nyc-eightfoldmatching-model/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://eightfold.ai/nyc-eightfoldmatching-model/</a>.</p><br><br><p>Boston Consulting Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 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