Associate - Healthcare, Bain Capability Network

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**WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH**

BCN HLS (Healthcare & Life Sciences) COE provides specialized support to global teams across the healthcare and life sciences value chain, enabling clients to make strategic business and investment decisions. BCN HLS COE provides an opportunity to solve challenging business problems in a dynamic set-up working closely with global Bain teams, acting as a thought-partner with daily deliverables.

The HLS practice serves leading companies across domains such as Pharmaceuticals, MedTech, Providers, Payers and Digital Health. The team is primarily focused on collaborating with practice/ case teams on the development and deployment of industry specific analytical products and topic expertise to answer strategic questions of Bain’s HC clients. Our teams work in a fast-paced environment delivering consistent and impactful results at scale

**WHERE YOU’LL FIT WITHIN THE TEAM**

As an Associate, you will be an active member for the team from Day 1 on BCN cases, driving the analysis on complex cases with some direction from a Project Leader and occasionally leading simple cases independently. In addition, associates help mentor and coach analysts by providing feedback. The expectation is to eventually provide significant direction and support to resolve complex issues and effectively manage client and team meetings. As an Associate; the individual would be working on one of the leading Pharma/Healthcare clients with projects spanning any geography.

**WHAT YOU’LL DO**
- Ability to take project/workstream ownership and manage complex case deliverables with mínimal support, perform data and reality checks
- Develop strong understanding of Pharma/HC IPs and concepts and quickly come up to speed on new/different businesses across geographies
- Ability to generate hypothesis to answer complex business questions using sound business logic
- Identify and use relevant analytical tools and internal repositories to extract information (proficiency in excel, PowerPoint is must)
- Deliver client ready documents containing implementable solutions
- Effectively communicate with BCN in internal meetings and end clients (Bain case teams from any global office)
- Lead individual project work streams with the help of 1-2 directly aligned team members (analysts)
- Comfort to handle pressure and deadlines
- Willing to groom a team of analysts and support them as and when required

**ABOUT YOU**
- Bachelor’s degree (B.Sc., B.Tech, B.Pharm) with 2-4 years of consulting experience, or Master’s degree (M.Sc., M.Tech, M.Pharm, MBA) up to 2 years of experience in consulting for pharmaceutical or healthcare clients
- Proficient in written and spoken English at C1-C2 level, with strong stakeholder communication skills
- Should possess strong Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills
- Strong academic credentials and analytical ability
- Experience in databases such as Thomson Reuters, CapitalIQ, Factiva and D&B preferred
- Familiarity and knowledge of Tableau, Alteryx and web-scrapping is an added advantage
- Effective coaching and mentoring skills