Description & Requirements

About Us

Bain & Company is a global management consulting firm 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, cross-industry capabilities, client development, private equity diligence or Bain intellectual property. The BCN comprises of Consulting Services, Knowledge Services and Shared Services.

About M&A CoE

• M&A Center of Excellence (CoE) at BCN is a new CoE being established to support Bain's capabilities for M&A And Divestitures practice
• Bain's M&A CoE offerings will include offerings across Growth and M&A Strategy, Deal Sourcing and Screening, Corporate Due Diligence (Integration thesis and Synergies modules) , Merger Integration, Divestiture and Separation. The CoE will play a crucial role in improving and further differentiating Bain's approach across these offerings.
• The M&A CoE will actively support Bain Partners/ Global Case teams across and Client Cases/ Client development efforts
• Additionally, the CoE will also work closely with M&A and Divestitures practice/solution leadership in building new IP/ Products/ Tools etc.
• CoE scope and scale is expected to evolve over time to more deeper domain expertise, broader scope and end-to-end offerings. Plan is to also expand the CoE to BCN Mexico in future.

About You

• A Bachelor's or Master's degree with strong academic background
• 2-4 years of prior domain experience/ relevant expertise e,g. Synergy analysis (and/or cost diagnostics), Due Diligence (M&A or Private Equity), Merger Integration, Divestiture strategy, etc
• Strong analytical skills with proven ability of leveraging/ embracing automation / AI to drive efficiency across products/ offerings.
• High-level competence in core analytical tools such as Alteryx, Tableau, Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint
• Hands-on skills in research and analytics are required, along with significant exposure to key secondary data sources. A robust consulting and problem-solving skill set tied with a background in marketing analytics is also necessary
• Fundamental skills include excellent work planning, communication, and team leading abilities. Relevant experience with data analytics, project and team management, coaching, and mentoring is also required

What You'll Do

• Works under the guidance of the Project Leader / Manager, playing a key role in driving the team's overall answer, final materials, client communication, work planning. Brainstorming with the supervisor on various aspects for IP development, CD, case work as needed
• Ensure timely, high quality, error-free research, analysis and output. Drive insights through data analysis - Story-lining the deliverable to prove/disprove hypotheses
• Works with project/case teams across geographies and industries; however, they focus almost exclusively M&A related projects/ cases
• Have structured communication skills and a willingness to learn the consulting toolkit to be able to translate analytical insights into business impacts
• Brings to the table various cutting-edge technologies and best practices in a productized delivery model; adoption of AI/ agentic tools for driving efficiency
• Communicate effectively and clearly explain insights and implications for the client
• Openness to transfer to Mexico / help set-up M&A in Mexico will be an added advantage

What makes us a great place to work

We are proud to be consistently recognized as one of the world's best places to work, a champion of diversity and a model of social responsibility. We are currently ranked the #1 consulting firm on Glassdoor's Best Places to Work list, and we have maintained a spot in the top four on Glassdoor's list for the last 12 years. We believe that diversity, inclusion and collaboration is key to building extraordinary teams. We hire people with exceptional talents, abilities and potential, then create an environment where you can become the best version of yourself and thrive both professionally and personally. We are publicly recognized by external parties such as Fortune, Vault, Mogul, Working Mother, Glassdoor and the Human Rights Campaign for being a great place to work for diversity and inclusion, women, LGBTQ and parents .