Practice Consultant, Global Energy & Materials (digital focus)

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WHO YOU'LL WORK WITH

Over the past two decades, Bain has formalized industry and capability areas, internally known as Practices, integral to how Bain wins and delivers results to its clients. A practice is considered a business unit of Bain. The primary role of a Practice is to drive growth for Bain in a particular industry or capability, together with offices, and boosting Bain's expertise and commercial excellence.

This role sits in the Practice Sector/Product/Topic series within the Product Management (Practice Roles) job family and the IP and Solutions talent community.

WHERE YOU'LL FIT WITHIN THE TEAM

The Practice Consultant will be part of Bain's Global Energy & Materials Center (GEM-C). The Sustainability and Energy & Natural Resources (ENR) practices agreed to jointly form the GEM-C, formally housed within ENR, to enhance expertise and boost our competitiveness in energy and materials markets.

GEM-C is an innovative, modern, fit-for-purpose team that enables frontline velocity and commercial acceleration, unifying the full range of support functions historically operating in a fragmented manner against a list of priority topics identified by the frontline sales force.

The Practice Consultant supports the GEM-C in achieving its ambition, working directly with the Head of the GEM-C (Peter Meijer) and other stakeholders. Primary focus for the Practice Consultant is to deliver high-priority projects and to support the overall adoption of digital / technology solutions across the GEM-C. The role provides a great opportunity for someone to develop and leverage deep project management expertise and make a direct impact to our overall commercial success.

The primary job responsibilities include:

• Build and manage the digital pipeline for the GEM-C. Work closely with stakeholders to identify high-value opportunities to introduce digital solutions. Align with digital experts in the GEM-C to translate opportunity in scoping, and help set up the delivery roadmap for key priorities
• Collaborate with other functions at Bain (e.g., Marketing, Data Research). Focus on driving high-priority initiatives to bring functional performance (including the GEM-C) to full potential
• Contribute to firm priorities and lead adoption across the GEM-C. Provide targeted support to GEM-C and ENR leadership support who are involved in broader firm priorities, and identify and support opportunities to implement changes within our team
• Support the GEM-C Quarterly Business Review (QBR) meetings. Define process standards, identify options to automate the management system / reporting, and manage meeting preparation

ABOUT YOU 

Education & Experience

• 5-8 years professional services / [industry/capability] experience + undergrad
• 4-5 years experience with MBA/Master's

For internal applicants:

• Bain consulting experience at the Consultant level
• Experience or strong interest in the industry/capability of the Practice.
• Strong performance 

Experience:

• Experience in process management (consulting, PMO)
• Experience / expertise or strong interest in using digital tools and driving automation solutions (and strong willingness to learn) 
• Prior exposure / experience / strong interest in energy and materials related industry is an advantage, not a must

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Analytical and problem solving skills and expertise to push insights to conclusive recommendations
• Ability to effectively drive a piece of work end-to-end with limited direction
• Can perform complex, accurate analysis
• Continuously learns from one experience to another and makes thoughtful recommendations on improvements
• Structure and design impactful slides and updates; can clearly communicate insights and implications of work
• Steer and direct highly effective small meetings; participates in meetings with more senior stakeholders and appropriately shares opinion
• Track record of inspiring, motivating and apprenticing junior team members

Additional Requirements:

• Flexibility with hours needed to work with global team

ABOUT US

Bain & Company is a global consultancy that helps the world's most ambitious change makers define the future. Across 61 offices in 38 countries, we work alongside our clients as one team with a shared ambition to achieve extraordinary results, outperform the competition and redefine industries. We complement our tailored, integrated expertise with a vibrant ecosystem of digital innovators to deliver better, faster and more enduring outcomes. Our 10-year commitment to invest $2 billion in pro bono services brings our talent, expertise and insight to organizations tackling today's urgent challenges. We earned a platinum rating from EcoVadis, the leading platform for environmental, social and ethical performance ratings for global supply chains, putting us in the top 1 percent among other consulting firms. 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.