Associate - Consumer Products (Ai)

**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**

The Consumer Products Center of Expertise collaborates with Bain’s global Consumer Products Practice leadership, client-facing Bain leadership and teams, and with end clients on development and delivery of Bain’s proprietary CP products and solutions. These solutions aim to answer strategic questions of Bain’s CP clients relating to brand strategy (consumer needs, assortment, pricing, distribution), revenue growth management (pricing strategy, promotions, profit pools, trade terms), negotiation strategy with key retailers, optimization of COGS etc.

You will work as part of the team in CP CoE comprising of a mix of Director, Managers, Projects Leads, Associates and Analysts working to implement cloud-based end-to-end advanced analytics solutions. Delivery models on projects vary from working as part of a CP Center of Expertise, broader global Bain case team within the CP ringfence, or within other industry CoEs such as FS / Retail / TMT / Energy / CME / etc with BCN on need basis

**What you’ll do**
- Support the BCN case leads in problem solving, hypothesis generation, research and insight generation and quality control
- Interpret, understand, and break down case requirements into actionable task items for the team-let
- Lead meaningful and focused meetings on owned project workstreams, deliver business insights effectively to the project leadership
- Be willing to take on challenging analytical problems and read research papers to come up with cutting-edge solutions from across disciplines to arrive at analytical solutions
- Be part of the thought leadership exercise to establish a blue-print for cloud-based deployment of any analytical and/or data-driven solution
- Support the process of Translating business problems into ML problems and create ML solutions to produce desired customer business outcomes.
- Execute and deliver high quality outputs timely to internal and external stakeholders
- Ability to derive actionable insights from voluminous quantitative and qualitative data/research
- Provide day-to-day coaching to analysts on various aspects of projects, while also overseeing a workstream for 1-2 analysts
- Gain proficiency in the key industry data sources KPIs along with developing expertise in analytical tools, models and languages
- Gain proficiency in select consulting solutions (go-to-market strategy, revenue management, account management, brand strategy, etc.) delivered to and relevant for CP industry clients, along with expertise in one or more key sub-sectors within CP, covering consumer preferences, market trends, competitor landscape, etc.
- Work on building and deploying advanced analytics solutions, including large-scale data processing, computationally intensive Optimization, Machine Learning and Deep Learning models
- The focus will be on making the deployment sustainable and scalable, as per solution needs
- Work on parallel processing of ML solutions, in an optimal manner
- Collaborating with team members to make the solutions as client-ready as possible
- (Good-to-have) Ability to deploy advanced analytics solutions on AWS/Azure

**About you**
- Work experience range in case highest qualification is undergraduate studies - 2-5 years of exposure to management consulting and data analytics relating to market / business / consumer insights, preferably in a global MNC environment within Consumer Products / Retail industry domains
- Work experience range in case highest qualification is postgraduate studies - 0-3 years of exposure to management consulting and data analytics relating to market / business / consumer insights, preferably in a global MNC environment within Consumer Products / Retail industry domains
- Demonstrated technical experience working with technologies related to industrialization of artificial intelligence, machine learning and/or deep learn