Associate – Advanced Manufacturing & Industrial Services

About us:

Bain & Company is a global consultancy that helps the world’s most ambitious change makers define the future. Across 65 offices in 40 countries, we work alongside our clients as one team with a shared ambition to achieve extraordinary results, outperform the competition and redefine industries. Since our founding in 1973, we have measured our success by the success of our clients, and we proudly maintain the highest level of client advocacy in the industry.

In 2004, the firm established its presence in the Indian market by opening the Bain Capability Center (BCC) in New Delhi. The BCC is now known as BCN (Bain Capability Network) with its nodes across various geographies. BCN is an integral and largest unit of (ECD) Expert Client Delivery. ECD plays a critical role as it adds value to Bain's case teams globally by supporting them with analytics and research solutioning across all industries, specific domains for corporate cases, client development, private equity diligence or Bain intellectual property. The BCN comprises of Consulting Services, Knowledge Services and Shared Services.

Who you will work with

This is an opportunity to be a part of Bain’s AMS CoE, based out of Gurugram office, and specifically support Bain Global case teams on live cases, client development and proposal support. AMS CoE consists of 70+ team members, organized into ~18 teams, working across various sectors such as real estate/construction, heavy machinery, commercial aviation, logistics & transport.

You will work on AMS projects and get exposed to various BCN products ranging from go-to-market strategies, industry analysis, and competitive benchmarking to excel models, survey analysis, and ad-hoc studies, on live client cases as well as for business/client development. 

An Associate works as a team member/contributor on BCN cases, driving the analysis on complex cases with some direction from a Project Leader and occasionally leading simple cases independently. In addition, associates help mentor and coach analysts providing feedback. The expectation is to eventually provide significant direction and support to resolve complex issues and effectively manage client and team meetings. As an Associate, the individual would mostly be working on the following AMS sub-sectors real estate/construction, heavy machinery, commercial aviation, logistics & transport.

About you

• Work experience range in case highest qualification is undergraduate studies – 2-5 years in consulting/ research/ analytics, with hands on experience in AMS sector (Construction, Real Estate, Manufacturing, Airlines, ports, logistics, factory set-up etc.). Prior experience/ familiarity with AMS sector is a must.
• Work experience range in case highest qualification is postgraduate studies – 0-3 years in consulting/ research/ analytics, with hands on experience in AMS sector (Construction, Real Estate, Manufacturing, Airlines, ports, logistics, factory set-up etc.). Prior experience/ familiarity with AMS sector is a must.
• Incumbent should be a graduate or post-graduate from top-tier institute or have pursued a commerce/statistical/analytical course from a tier 1 university.
• Candidate should be currently working in strategy consulting/research-oriented set-up and possess acumen to  solve open-ended problems
• Proficient in research and analysis, as well as able to provide solid business judgment to derive answers in situations where  data is not easily available or explicitly published
• Able to interface with primary client contact (Bain case teams from global offices)
• Play a bigger role on long-term AMS   cases typically 3-12 months duration, with frequent interactions with the case team (and potentially end clients whenever opportunity persists)
• Display independent secondary research, analytical, and story lining skills
• Think out-of-the-box to solve for niche case scenarios, through baselining and benchmarking of global best practices
• Open to intermittent travel to other Bain offices/client locations on live cases

What you’ll do

• May have first-level team management responsibility, which involves allocating and reviewing work to a small team of  analysts and conducting performance / feedback discussions
• Provide content thought leadership & may manage simple cases independently
• Candidate should be currently working in strategy consulting/research-oriented set-up and possess acumen to  solve open-ended problems
• Proficient in research and analysis, as well as able to provide solid business judgment to derive answers in situations where  data is not easily available or explicitly published
• Able to interface with primary client contact (Bain case teams from ME offices)
• May have first-level team management responsibility, which involves allocating and reviewing work to a small team of  analysts and conducting performance / feedback discussions
• Provide content thought leadership & may manage simple cases independently

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