Expert Consultant, Project Leader, Automotive & Mobility Software

Company: Boston Consulting Group
Location: Detroit
Posted on: March 20, 2023

Job Description:

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 help clients with total transformation-inspiring complex change, enabling organizations to grow, building competitive advantage, and driving bottom-line impact.

To succeed, organizations must blend digital and human capabilities. Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives to spark change. BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting along with technology and design, corporate and digital ventures-and business purpose. We work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, generating results that allow our clients to thrive.
Practice Area Profile
BCG's Industrial Goods practice serves four broad industrial segments: Automotive & Mobility, Engineered Products & Infrastructure, Materials & Process Industries, and Transportation & Logistics. We help companies in these sectors think beyond the limits of their traditional business models, choose where and how they should add value, and reorganize to defend themselves against new threats and explore new opportunities.
What You'll Do
As an Expert in the Industrial Goods practice, you will have two broad focus areas:
Build software expertise in our Automotive & Mobility sector within BCG and increase BCG's profile externally:

• Develop and contribute to BCG's intellectual capital - work on BCG content projects to create new techniques and/or capture new ideas
• Build and maintain "fact packs" related to core software topics so there is an ever-available library of educational materials for internal and client usage
• Responsible for supporting the A&M sector in writing external reports, papers, social media contributions of its partners in concert with the TMT practice's marketing lead
• Identify conferences for BCG's attendance and help coordinate our participation Lead and support execution of Software and Services strategy projects for automotive clients:
  • Responsible for overall methodology
  • Work jointly with BCG and client project leaders, bring expertise to the team, both on issues specific to the industry and on questions asked by the client
  • Support multiple case teams, co-lead modules, especially those in need for broad experience and hands-on approach
  • Ensure the quality of the work, and the relevance of any synthesis and recommendations. Challenge work in progress, results, and re-orient any analyses if needed
    
    Our Expert Consulting Track (ECT) The Expert Consulting Track (ECT) is vital to BCG's ability to successfully meet our clients' demand for deep expertise and advanced technical capabilities. Experts deliver next-level impact for BCG's most complex and cutting-edge client challenges. Experts focus on developing BCG's thought leadership, commercial capabilities, and intellectual property assets; and their work is essential to our delivery model. Working as part of a multidisciplinary team to bring the 'best of BCG' to our clients, Experts come from diverse backgrounds, with expertise often gained outside of BCG in industry, academia, or specialized consulting.
    What You'll Bring (Experience & Qualifications)
    
    • A minimum of 5-7 years of relevant A&M software experience, including:
      • A deep understanding of expertise in A&M software (e.g., specific operational experience)
      • A range of responsibilities in software-related activities (architecture, business development, planning, project management, strategy, and operations)
      • Prior experience preferred as a software developer or in product management; background or exposure to software investment banking and/or private equity
      • An established network within the software A&M industry
      • A proven track record of implementation success
      • A relevant undergraduate degree in CS, Engineering or technical degree is preferred
      • Team oriented mind-set and strong interpersonal communication skills
        VACCINE: Candidates should be aware that BCG currently maintains a policy requiring all US & Canada based employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Newly hired employees must be fully vaccinated prior to their employment start date. BCG is an equal opportunity employer and will provide a reasonable accommodation to those unable to be vaccinated for medical or religious reasons where it is not an undue hardship to the company to do so as provided under applicable federal, state, provincial and local law.
        FOR U.S. APPLICANTS: Boston Consulting Group ("BCG") is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
        The first year base compensation for this role is: Consultant: $190,000 USD Project Leader: $225,400 USD
        In addition to your base salary, you will also be eligible for an annual discretionary performance bonus and BCG's Profit Sharing and Retirement Fund (PSRF) contribution. BCG also provides a market leading benefits package described below.
        At BCG, we are committed to offering a comprehensive benefit program that includes everything our employees and their families need to be well and live life to the fullest. We pay the full cost of medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees - and their eligible family members. That's zero dollars in premiums taken from employee paychecks. All our plans provide best in class coverage:
        • Zero dollar ($0) health insurance premiums for BCG employees, spouses, and children
        • Low $5 (USD) copays for trips to the doctor, urgent care visits and prescriptions for generic drugs
        • Dental coverage, including up to $5,000 (USD) in orthodontia benefits
        • Vision insurance with coverage for both glasses and contact lenses annually
        • Reimbursement for gym memberships and other fitness activities
        • Fully vested retirement contributions made annually, whether you contribute or not
        • Generous paid time off including vacation, holidays, and annual office closure between Christmas and New Years
        • Paid Parental Leave and other family benefits such as elective egg freezing, surrogacy, and adoption reimbursement Employees, spouses, and children are covered at no cost. Employees share in the cost of domestic partner coverage.
          

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