PPK - Operations Manager, Private Equity Practice

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.

WHO YOU'LL WORK WITH

You'll join the Product, Practice and Knowledge (PPK) group in one of our practices. 'Practices' are how we group and organize our solutions and products based on our clients' industry or business function. They're integral to how we win and deliver results to our clients and are a key strategic priority within our firm. Operations roles are critical in helping to drive and measure the strategic direction and operations of a practice.

Bain & Company is the leading consulting partner to the private equity (PE) industry and its stakeholders. PE consulting at Bain has grown eightfold over the past 15 years and now represents about one-third of the firm's global business. We maintain a global network of more than 2,000 experienced professionals serving PE clients. Our practice is more than triple the size of the next-largest consulting company serving PE firms.

WHERE YOU'LL FIT WITHIN THE TEAM

The Operations Manager (OM) independently manages global practice operations and collaborates with senior practice leadership to support the execution of strategy. Managers provide insights and recommendations to leadership, derived from high quality analysis and synthesis of data, and ensure progress against initiatives.

Responsibilities may include supporting strategic plan development and driving practice reporting, budget planning / execution, and KPI setting. The Operations Manager may also play a role in the tracking and effective deployment of practice affiliates / experts / advisors, as well as commercial support. Managers support the content and planning for practice meetings, trainings, and calls.

They oversee consistency and standards across practice, understanding senior leadership's needs, taking advantages of economies of scale and innovations to create 'one single source of truth' for practice leadership decision-making.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

Practice planning and strategy execution

• Works with senior team members to enable Practice leadership to implement and evaluate the global strategy and additional initiatives
• Works as a thought-partner with regional and solution leaders to set KPIs for the practice, drives the practice planning process, integrating and synthesizing elements (e.g., solution, sector, region, revenue, client accounts) into the full plan; adds and balances inputs from stakeholders such as Finance and Partners
• Manages the solution / sector / region input process and aggregation for annual budget submission and reforecasts, including realignment / trade-offs; monitors progress
• Interprets trends and highlight issues requiring intervention, e.g. cost recovery or commercial initiatives
• Proactively flags gaps and opportunities; recommends in-year tradeoffs

Practice operations and reporting (may include select Solutions / Commercial / Regional operations)

Affiliate management and meetings (may be within specific domain or across practice)

Commercial Operations

Practice communications and teaming

ABOUT YOU

You have strong problem-solving and analytical abilities; you drive experimentation and innovation

WHAT MAKES US A GREAT PLACE TO WORK

We are proud to be  consistently recognized  as one of the world's best places to work, a champion of diversity and a model of social responsibility. We are currently ranked the #1 consulting firm on Glassdoor's Best Places to Work list, and we have maintained a spot in the top four on Glassdoor's list for the last 12 years. We believe that diversity, inclusion and collaboration is key to building extraordinary teams. We hire people with exceptional talents, abilities and potential, then create an environment where you can become the best version of yourself and thrive both professionally and personally.  We are publicly recognized by external parties such as Fortune, Vault, Mogul, Working Mother, Glassdoor and the Human Rights Campaign for being a great place to work for diversity and inclusion, women, LGBTQ and parents.

Skills Required

Powerapps, Alteryx, Ai, Tableau, Python