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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.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain are a key priority for our OPS practice area - in fact it is the largest business line within OPS at BCG.
Our work in M&SC is structured along three main questions:
What to produce? deals with topics around make-or-buy both on a strategic and a more operational level. For example we supported an Automotive OEM with the question whether to enter into the battery cell manufacturing business
Where to produce? is a subsequent question around production and supply chain networks. Recently we worked for example with a large healthcare client in making their global supply chain more resilient
How to produce? finally focuses on the four walls of the factory or the warehouse itself. With a large consumer client we for example designed their future warehouse including latest technology to make it most efficient
Within each of the three questions we are guided by the three key strategic directions of operations leaders to enhance their competitiveness: They must simultaneously improve their value proposition, strengthen their operational resilience, and pursue sustainability.
Along the three areas outlined above you will
Work with our clients on M&SC projects
These projects can be on the one hand very strategic, but on the other very operational directly within a factory
Work on creating/further developing our tool suite (e.g., our advanced network modelling)
Work on partnerships with clients and our technology providers
What You'll Do
As a Consultant/Project leader, you will be given end-to-end responsibility within a BCG project, and begin to develop specialized knowledge to help you solve our clients' problems. You'll work closely with clients to understand their issues, create strategies for change, win buy-in for your recommendations, and collaborate with fellow BCGers to transform client potential into performance.
Responsibilities
Working jointly with BCG and high impact client project teams, bringing expertise to the team and to the client on site
Working independently at a module level on select topics
You will have the opportunity to delve deeper into specific areas of expertise within the Operations sector and expand your expertise especially in Manufacturing and Supply chain.
Support case teams, especially those with need for deep expertise and a hands-on approach
Contribute to the quality of the work, question results with sanity checks and with the project team
Educate and inform clients proactively about state-of-the-art technologies, methodologies and tools and how it can bring value to their business and, in particular, operation
What You'll Bring (Experience & Qualifications)
We're looking for exceptional talents to join us. You would typically:
You have a minimum of 3-10 years of experience in the Operations area
Within your career so far, you have already been able to apply sound knowledge in the field of manufacturing and supply chain.
Actively managing multiple client and stakeholder relationships and networking within the client organization in order to understand their needs and help to influence the client agenda is part of your business
Interpersonal skills to partner with executive management teams as they implement a new vision and passion for enabling leaders to drive change within organizations set you apart
Flexibility, ability to work under pressure and willingness to travel frequently are necessary;
You have an exceptionally good academic background, ideally from a leading university
Have excellent verbal and written communication skills in German and English, in addition to a strong presence, team spirit and leadership skills.