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Consultant/Project Leader – Procurement Permanent
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 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.
Practice Area Profile
The Operations Practice (OPS) Area is one of BCG’s largest functional practices. We help our clients create competitive advantage by enhancing their performance and building strategic capabilities. BCG’s expertise in Operations covers the following areas – supply chain management, procurement, manufacturing, service operations, cost efficiency, operational transformation, research & product development, program and project management, all with a strong digital and analytics overlay.
What You’ll Do
BCG is looking for Procurement Consultants and Project Leaders who will partner with clients to take on their most difficult challenges, transform mindsets, create outstanding value, and build capabilities that enable organizations to achieve sustainable advantage. You will be a core member of BCG’s Operations Practice working alongside some of the world’s top minds in the industry. You will also significantly contribute to the development of our Procurement topic and support our ambitious growth targets.
Most of your time will be spent executing procurement projects and leading project teams composed of members of different backgrounds:
- Play a critical role in the growth of the Procurement topic through case execution, client development, and intellectual property & product creation
- Execute, or provide expertise and support to Procurement projects for our key clients in Southeast Asia, Asia Pacific and globally
- Desire to build and spread Procurement expertise within BCG and serving as a Procurement-hub for the firm to develop new techniques and/or capture new ideas as well as casework experience
- Ability to contribute to BCG’s practice area publications and to BCG’s procurement approach and toolkit, benchmarks, templates, processes, incl. responsibility for managing and developing 3rd party cooperation
- Work jointly with BCG and client project teams, bringing expertise to the team and to the client on site
- Actively support our business development efforts: client meetings, industry conferences
- Provide mentorship and support to consultants ensuring continuous individual development
What You’ll Bring (Experience & Qualifications)
- You ideally have more than 5 years of work experience in top level advisory or consulting firm, or experience gained in Procurement at a market leading company
- It is essential, that you already have deep experience in the field of Procurement and have achieved significant and proven results
- Knowledge challenging the “status quo”, creating transparency for clients, helping them understand the implications of their costs, synthesising & advising how to improve
- A track record of project/team leadership and related achievements
- Problem solving skills – hypothesis-driven approach- and advanced quantitative analysis skills
- Flexible, curious and creative, open for new things and able to propose innovative ideas
- Willingness to travel internationally and to work remotely on client sites
- Strong academics
- Fluent English is a must
- MBA or advanced degree in business, operations or supply chain is a plus
- Fluency in any of the ASEAN languages is a plus
- Procurement and Supply Chain certificates (ISM, CIPS, etc.) are a plus