Business Intelligence - London, United Kingdom - Boston Consulting Group

Boston Consulting Group

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London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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WHAT YOU'LL DO:

As part of the Global Business Intelligence and Analytics team you will pioneer boundaries in technology and innovation.

This Senior Director role plays a pivotal role in harnessing the power of data to drive strategic decisions, fostering innovation, and providing powerful insights to steer the company towards success.

Positioned at the heart of our global operations, you will lead a dynamic team in the pursuit of analytical excellence, turning complex data into actionable insights that shape BCG's future.

This role reports into a member of the Enterprise Service Leadership team, specifically the BI&A Product Portfolio Leader.

This
BI&A Senior Product Owner role will spearhead initiatives that redefine industry standards, cultivate a culture of continuous improvement and analytical curiosity, and leverage new technologies to solve real-world challenges.

You will work as an integral part of an Agile team—working closely with the business, leadership teams, and cross-functional BI&A teams to define and evolve the vision and roadmap for global analytic products used by senior executives across BCG.

You will work closely with the technical delivery teams to build solutions that meet the business needs. As well as playing a key role in change management—working with stakeholders on adoption, enablement, and on-going enhancements.

The
BI&A Senior Product Owner must be a leader who is customer-centric and enjoys working with teams to design and deliver exceptional products to customers.

This is a highly visible role that requires building partnership and trust among senior cross-functional stakeholders.

You will also lead a team and work directly with its members to prioritize and manage what needs to be done and by when, empowering the team to deliver.

You will coordinate closely with the Product Portfolio Leader to stay aligned on business priorities and make sure the team is progressing and delivering against them.

Among your responsibilities, you will:

Set the overall product vision and strategy to direct and inform the team's work

Define, evolve and drive the roadmap for the global analytics and reporting platform; ensure the products deliver business results and customer value
Work closely with the Product Portfolio Leader to understand and drive alignment on business strategy
Ensure that products are built in an incremental way, releasing new features that create value for the business
Track product performance to inform future work (define measurable KPIs to measure impact)

Act as the key liaison on cross-functional collaboration

Partner with leadership from functions outside of BI&A to define and build their analytic roadmap
Lead crossfunctional collaboration and engagement; identify highest priorities opportunities to support
Support activities to define funding and resource requests that enable new analytic product builds
Align crossfunctional team members on best practices, knowledge sharing; foster community of excellence and innovation

Serve as the voice of customer

Engage in continuous discovery, proactively seek feedback from business to understand customer needs
Constructively challenge business on assumptions to ensure deeper understanding of requirements, workflows and process to ensure products are fit for purpose
Translate the voice and needs of customers into a prioritized list of potential innovations, engaging users as needed
Leverage empirical and qualitative data to assess feature performance and inform prioritization
Determine tradeoffs involving customer value, cost, and speed to execution
Facilitate product demos to empower team members with realtime feedback from customers

Oversee what is delivered by the Squad and when, ensuring to maximize business value to targeted customers

Transform objectives into a clear vision for your team to inform the creation and prioritization of the team's work
Prioritize work through a wellorganized backlog of user stories and clearly communicate what needs to be done and by when
Define and clearly communicate acceptance criteria for output based on business & customer needs

Ensure the team is supported to get work done

Act as cultural steward, foster innovation and curiosity, ensure voices are heard and team is supported to explore new ideas that can drive value
Regularly engage with the Squad to offer feedback on workinprogress and clarify requirements
Engage with Chapter Leads regarding resourcing and functional expertise required in Squad Provide feedback as part of performance management of Squad members and other members of the Product Portfolio

YOU'RE GOOD AT:

Strategic product management

Defining and articulating analytic product strategy for audiences at all levels
Being customerfocused and dedicated to understanding and learning about customer needs and requirements
Operating with a transparent mindset, communicat