Practice Consultant, Global Energy & Materials (digital focus)

Company and PPK Overview

Bain & Company is the management consulting firm that the world’s business leaders come to when they want results. Bain advises clients on strategy, operations, information technology, organization, private equity, digital transformation and strategy, and mergers and acquisition, developing practical insights that clients act on and transferring skills that make change stick. The firm aligns its incentives with clients by linking its fees to their results. Bain clients have outperformed the stock market 4 to 1. Founded in 1973, Bain has 58 offices in 37 countries, and its deep expertise and client roster cross every industry and economic sector.

Bain has formalized industry and capability “Practices” which are integral to how Bain wins and delivers results to its clients. Together they form PPK (Product, Practice, and Knowledge). The role of a Practice is to drive growth for Bain in a particular industry or capability together with offices, and boost Bain’s expertise and commercial excellence.

Department overview

The Practice Consultant will be part of Bain’s Global Energy & Materials Center (GEM-C).

Bain has recently established the GEM-C to support Bain’s ambition for commercial acceleration in energy and materials. GEM-C will be a step-change in developing and maintaining world-class intellectual property to support commercial efforts – this is not a siloed ‘think tank’ but rather will be integrated into our commercial processes. GEM-C is on a multi-year journey aiming to address several pain points in the current expertise model that is both fragmented and resource-intensive.

The GEM-C works across multiple practices and several Bain functions to develop and maintain Bain’s expertise related to energy and materials. Collectively we refer to this as the GEM-C ecosystem. Key practices and department stakeholders include:

The ENR practice is the primary user of GEM-C services. ENR consists of five sectors: Agribusiness, Chemicals, Mining, Oil & Gas and Utilities & Renewables. Themes like Energy and the Energy Transition, Circularity, Food Sustainability, Engine 2.0, Technology, and Digital innovation are at the core of these sectors and will occupy ever greater centre in the work pertaining to these industries.

Position Summary

The Practice Consultant supports the GEM-C in achieving its ambition by identifying and executing on opportunities to implement digital / technology solutions across the GEM-C ecosystem, supporting implementation of a tech-inspired approach to the GEM-C strategies, IP priorities and governance processes. The role provides a great opportunity for someone to develop and leverage expertise and make a direct impact to our overall commercial success.

The primary job responsibilities include 1) Engaging with GEM-C ecosystem entities to help identify opportunity to implement digital solutions to improve client solutions, enhance the generation of insights and IP, and to improve workflows, 2) Supporting the business case and development roadmap and prioritization process, 3) Help scope digital projects for execution, 4) Perform elements of development and delivery, with support of dedicated GEM-C digital resources in the Bain Capability Network (BCN), and 5) Engage across the GEM-C to upskill and train people on digital solutions.

The Practice Consultant reports to the Head of the GEM-C (Peter Meijer). The Practice Consultant will closely work together with the ENR sector teams and broader GEM-C ecosystem leaders.

Essential Functions

As the GEM-C Practice Consultant for Digital, your responsibilities will include but are not limited to:

Digital Product strategy, planning and operations

Solution Design, Development, Deployment, and Delivery

Advisory and collaboration

Qualifications

• Proven track record of executing successful AI projects from concept to delivery

Preferred