Data & Insights -associate, Cpr

**ABOUT US**:
Bain & Company is one of the top management-consulting firms in the world. 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 plays a critical role in supporting Bain's case teams globally to help with analytics and research across all industries, 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 role of this position is to develop and deliver on Bain’s proprietary products and solutions, within the Consumer Products/Retail industries, to our clients while working within a team of analysts, other associates and leads. The CP/R teams collaborate with Bain’s CP/R industry leadership, client facing Bain case teams, and with end clients on a case to case basis on the development and deployment of industry specific analytical solutions. The aim is to answer strategic questions of Bain’s CP/R clients relating to brand strategy (assortment, pricing, distribution), revenue management (pricing, promotions, profit pools, trade terms), negotiation strategy with retailers, COGS optimization, etc.

Associates play a team member role on BCN cases, driving the analysis on more complicated workstreams within a project. Associates own workplanning, problem solving and delivery of analysis/insights on their assigned workstreams and collaborate with other team members / project lead to deliver a high quality consolidated answer on the overall project. Associates are expected to have strong experience with data analytics and research, coach / guide analysts on the team on task execution, communicate/present findings in internal team meetings and external client calls. Over the tenure as an associate and with experience, associates will be expected to manage between 1-3 analysts and independently lead simple to medium complexity cases with guidance from a Manager.

**WHAT YOU’LL DO**:

- Owns a complex workstream of the overall case scope, providing strong leverage to the Project Lead
- Understands client needs/context and demonstrates ability to resolve complex issues on critical work streams, working closely with the Project Lead
- Ensures timely, high quality delivery of output to clients through effective execution, and co-management of the work streams of a small set of analysts (1-2)
- Supports the BCN case leads in problem solving, hypothesis generation, research and insight generation and quality control
- Ensures zero-defect across own work streams as well as those being co-managed
- Proficient at identifying and using the relevant analytical tools for projects (alteryx/tableau/etc.) & solutions (go-to-market strategy, revenue management, brand strategy, etc.) delivered and relevant to the CP industry
- Proficient on the key data sources and metrics for CP industry, experience in one or more key sub-sectors within CP covering consumer preferences, trends, market and competitor landscape
- Communicates data, knowledge & clearly explain insights & implications for the analysts and the case lead

**ABOUT YOU**:

- Graduate from tier-1 college with 2-5 years of experience in a global professional services firm environment with exposure to management consulting, business analytics, or CP/R industry domains
- Preferably an MBA from tier-1 business school
- Strong academic credentials, analytical ability and research skills
- Excellent communication skills, can drive discussions/presentations with BCN leadership and client maps succinctly to favorable outcomes
- Ability to analyze quantitative and qualitative data to identify patterns, opportunities and gaps, and integrate across disparate industry data resources (e.g., Nielsen/IRI, Mintel, Kantar, shopper card data, client financials etc.)
- Understanding of modern analytical tools and techniques, including Alteryx, Tableau (critical), R, SPSS, Power BI, Python is preferred
- Experience working in or for CP&R clients is preferred
- A strong team player and demonstrated ability to motivate team members

**WHAT MAKES US A GREAT PLACE TO WORK**:
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