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Boston Consulting Group (BCG)Boston Consulting Group partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities. 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. BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting along with technology and design, corporate and digital ventures—and business purpose. The People Digital Product Portfolio is the largest and most dynamic product portfolio within BCG’s Digital Products Organization. Talent Management (Staffing, Mobility, and Career Development); LandD; and Core HR (including Absence, Performance, Contingent Workforce, Compensation, Benefits). Over the past two years, the People Digital Product Portfolio has more than doubled in size, and there is more growth to come.With this growth comes amazing new leadership opportunities, including the Product Owner for a squad focused on delivering against our robust People agenda. The Product Owner is a leader who is passionate about serving customers and inspiring their teams; and excited to be an ambassador for the organization’s Agile ways of working. This role will focus on delivering the digital agenda for important Core HR priorities, including Talent and Performance processes within Workday as well as our Contingent Workforce management processes in SAP Fieldglass.Successful product owners will manage conversations with functional stakeholders from HR/BCG leadership and turn those discussions into action with the support of their squad members. You will coordinate closely with your Product Team Lead to stay aligned on business goals and make sure your squad is progressing and delivering against them. Track product performance to inform future workManage relevant product budget process and support the Product Portfolio Lead in engaging with the funding processEffectively manage stakeholders’ and users’ expectations while building credibility through a strong business sense and balancing of prioritiesvia surveys and interviews) to understand customer needsLeverage empirical and qualitative data to assess feature performance and inform prioritizationSupport and enable the Squad to get its work doneProvide feedback as part of performance management of Squad members and other members of the Product PortfolioWork closely with the Product Team Lead to understand and drive alignment on the Product Portfolio’s business strategy, goals, and objectivesShare information about the Squad’s output and priorities with other Product Owners to ensure alignment across the organizationBringing a data-driven approach to decision making, both in day-to-day management and in making strategic trade-offsTotal 7+ years’ relevant experience as Product Owner, leading design/support of HR Technology systems, or leading HR transformations as part of a Workday or SAP Fieldglass consulting teamStrong functional understanding of Talent, Performance, and/or contingent workforce processes, especially related to consulting or professional services organizationsGood understanding of technology enabled business transformation, Digital transformation, Organizational transformation, delivering enterprise-level IT and Digital projectsExperience collaborating with senior HR leadership and influencing decision making / project planning at a program levelDeep understanding of talent and performance Workday configuration is a plusDeep understanding of contingent workforce SAP Fieldglass configuration is a plusExperience working as part of agile teams and comfort with agile ways of workingExceptional communications and stakeholder management skillsExperience in consulting is a plusEvery member of your squad, for which you will be the product ownerScrum Leads, which will act as your right hand to remove impediments and will assist you in dealing with the different artifacts and ceremoniesOther Product Owners within BCG, to share best practices and ensure alignment between squads and a cultureAgile Coaches, with whom you will develop BCG’s Agile ways of working and your own experienceBoston 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.Employment type

Full-time