Project Leader - Principal, Technology & Digital Advantage Practice

The Boston Consulting Group GmbH; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading global consulting firm as a Project Leader to drive digital transformation programs for clients across diverse industries. You will leverage your expertise to shape strategies, build relationships, and guide teams in navigating the complexities of digital change. This role offers opportunities for innovation, mentorship, and significant impact within the consulting industry.

Benefits

Training and mentoring

Collaborative team approach

Opportunity for innovation

Qualifications

• Minimum of 8 years’ experience, with at least 3 years in strategy consulting.
• Experience leading teams in large-scale digital transformation projects.
• Flexible to travel within the SEA region.

Responsibilities

• Partner with companies on digital transformation programs.
• Advise on digital and technology strategies, including cloud and AI.
• Create value through reimagined business models.

Skills

Leadership

Quantitative analysis

Problem-solving

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/Computer Science, Engineering

MBA, Masters or PhD

Job description

Locations: Malaysia | Singapore | Indonesia | Thailand

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

BCG’s Tech and Digital practice area focuses on helping clients deliver competitive advantage and business superior performance through the use of data, technology and digital. Tech and Digital 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. Our Tech and Digital offer encompasses tech experts across BCG and Platinion, providing seamless multidisciplinary solutions to our clients.

What You'll Do

As a Project Leader, you will partner with leading companies to shift mindsets, shapeagendas, and create value through digital transformation programs. Sitting within our consulting business, you will focus on key digital subject matter. The work you do every day-going deep to uncover key insights and reimagine business models-will enable our clients tocompete in today's fast-paced environment and accelerate into the digital future. As you immerseyourself in new challenges across a range of Digital topics, you will develop close relationships withsenior clients and BCG leadership, and play a central role in work that has a lasting impact oncompanies, industries, and society.

As a Project Leader, you will work as digital specialists advising clients on a range of topics that align to your areas of expertise and interests, including, but not limited to the following:

• Digital Transformation & Strategy: Helping clients rethink the impact of digital on their business and accelerate their transformation efforts
• Emerging Technology Topics Advisory: including Cloud, Blockchain/Crypto/DeFi, Metaverse/Web3* Customer Centricity: Reinventing the customer experience, leveraging journey maps, deep customer empathy, and data to create transformative digital interfaces, marketing strategies, and process innovations
• Digital Marketing & Personalization: Optimising digital marketing programs across all digital channels and levers, including precision marketing, and analytics-enabled, one-to- one personalization
• Big Data & Analytics: Driving transformational value through cutting-edge applications of AI and Machine Learning tools that are fully scaled into the business
• New Ways of Working: Building ongoing organisational change capabilities, and helping clients transform into digital enterprises that continue to develop and innovate with speed, at scale
• Transformation of the Technology Function and Technology Build: Redesigning technology functions to improve flexibility, efficiency, and Business-IT alignment

What You'll Bring

• A minimum of 8 years of work experience; of which at least 3 years in strategy consulting environment and demonstrated experience leading a team of consultants in driving large-scale digital transformation projects and advising clients on a range of technology topics
• History of building credibility and relationships with leaders, technical and non-technical people to align on strategy, inspire stakeholders, and execute on a day-to-day basis. The ability to work with and lead multi-disciplinary teams including engineers, architects, data scientists-or whatever is required to solve the client's challenge-will be vital to success
• Advanced quantitative analysis, solid business acumen and problem- solving ability
• Established record of driving digital transformation and topics with value creation in mind
• Excellent communication skills; able to explain complex industry concepts in non-technical terms
• Bachelor's degree preferably in an IT/Computer Science, Engineering or related discipline
• MBA, Masters or PHD will be highly regarded
• Flexibility to travel within SEA region

Additional info

What Can A Career At BCG Offer You?

• An opportunity to innovate and change: We have a legacy of developing deep insights and game-changing ideas and our case teams take ideas from all levels in order to deliver breakthrough insights to our clients
• Training and mentoring: We embed mentorship and apprenticeship throughout your time at BCG. You will have a support system of career development advisors, the guidance of project leaders, and partnership with your colleagues and teammates at every turn
• A collaborative approach: You will join a growing team of talented individuals, operating and learning from people with a diverse and broad set of backgrounds

Boston Consulting Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under national, provincial, or local law, where applicable, and those with criminal histories will be considered in a manner consistent with applicable state and local laws.
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