Expert Consultant, Manufacturing

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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

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

Boosting manufacturing effectiveness is top of mind for many of our clients with current labor shortages, employee turnover, and supply chain disruptions presenting additional challenges. Some companies have lost their way with lean and need a boost, while others look to make significant gains with Industry 4.0 and digital transformations.

BCG is looking for a manufacturing expert to help our clients with step changes in operational performance. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience in plant operations, with exposure to leading initiatives and influencing manufacturing teams in a shop-floor environment. Experience with lean production system and/or 6 sigma is necessary for the role to bring the practitioner experience to our teams.

As an Expert Consultant, you will be integrated into a BCG team to leverage your deep expertise on projects that reshape businesses. You will be given end-to-end responsibility for a workstream within a BCG project. You will work closely with clients to understand their issues, create strategies for change, and win buy-in for your recommendations, while also collaborating with colleagues on complex client issues. You will provide deep expertise and insight to clients and help build your expertise area within BCG. A majority of your time will be focused on supporting and executing case work.

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 alongside our traditional and specialty consultants 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. Consulting work is varied and rigorous, much of it performed at our client sites. Projects can vary in length, size, and location, depending on the client's challenge. Because our clients operate all over the world, you may travel internationally.

What You'll Bring

• 5+ years of experience in manufacturing plant operations.
• Deep expertise in lean, 6 sigma, and total productive maintenance (TPM): tiered communication, managing daily performance, problem solving, root cause analysis, 5S, maintenance planning and scheduling, Gemba walks.
• Strong consulting skill set with a demonstrated willingness to learn and grow.
• Entrepreneurial, driven, and proactive mindset with a strong work ethic.
• Collaborative working style with a proven ability to team effectively across BCG and with clients.
• Ability to build trust and rapport with clients by deeply understanding their business and challenges.
• Experience in a market leading company recognized for lean/6 sigma excellence preferred.
• Educational background in engineering.
• Advanced degree in a related field preferred.
• U.S citizen and able to obtain and maintain a security clearance.

Additional info

At BCG, we care about our people, and offer best in class benefits to support you personally and professionally including:

• 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.
• 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.

For U.S. Applicants:

The base compensation for this role is $190,000 in 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.
• $10 (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.

To learn more about our employee benefit please check our Benefits page.

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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