Performance Improvement Specialist Consultant

Bain & Company is a global consultancy that helps the world’s most aspiring organisations make change and define the future. Our Australian practice is growing, and we are currently recruiting talented and experienced professionals to join our consulting teams serving a variety of clients across a broad range industries.

**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 campaigner of diversity and a model of social responsibility. We are currently ranked the #3 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.

Bain’s Performance Improvement Practice and Operation Capabilities:
Bain’s Performance Improvement (PI) Practice is one of Bain’s fastest growing and largest capability practices. It encompasses products ranging from Cost/Complexity Transformation to Operations Improvement and Business Support optimization. The Practice is a global capability that cuts across all industries including Advanced Manufacturing and Services (AMS), Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), Technology/Telecom/Media, Consumer Products and Retail, Financial Services, Healthcare etc. Performance Improvement Practice helps clients optimize their performance across all functions. We offer service from targeted solutions that yield an immediate impact to broad transformation programs that redefine how work gets done.
As an integral part of Performance Improvement, Bain’s Operation Excellence product suite covers full spectrum of operation areas, from procurement and supply-chain efficiency to cutting-edge manufacturing capabilities. We offer a broad range of experts with deep experience in operations. From the C-suite to the research lab to the shop floor to the customer service center, we help clients improve every component of operations to boost the top and bottom lines.
As a firm, we are committed to accelerate growth of performance improvement and boost our operation capabilities in Australia and New Zealand. We believe the potential is tremendous and are investing significant resources to improve our product, delivery model and people.

**What you’ll do**:
Bain & Company Australia is looking to recruit Specialist Consultant/Specialist Manager to build upon the firm’s Performance Improvement operation capabilities across the Australia and New Zealand region.

The Specialist Consultant /Specialist Manager will work across a variety of functional topics in operations (incl. supply chain, procurement, manufacturing, R&D etc.).

As a new consultant, you’ll quickly join client case teams, as an integral team member where you will:

- Support diagnostic of a client’s operation performance and benchmark against the industry
- Interview, facilitate workshops with client employees, management teams and other stakeholders
- Work with our advanced analytics group to conduct cutting edge analysis
- Translate data into meaningful insights; present recommendations to key decision makers
- Move the client to action and build relationships with client maps, calling on operation expertise
- Support collaboration and co-creation with junior and mid-level clients and maintain client assets and client relationships over extended period
- Become a go-to expert on operation topics internally
- Lead individual work streams with Bain case teams effectively

You will work with colleagues on a variety of case teams, allowing you to develop close relationships with peers and case managers that you can turn to throughout your career. Project scope will range from single functional improvement (e.g. development strategies to reach full potential procurement savings) to large strategy or cost transformation.
Each day will be different, but they will all be rewarding.

**About you**:
We recruit talented experienced professionals from a wide array of industries and backgrounds, including finance, law, consulting, engineering, technology, healthcare, start-ups and many others.
- A minimum of 4-5 years of industry experience in relevant corporates, with solid exposure to core consulting skills or at least 3-6 years of operations consulting experience in relevant domains
- A successful track record of operation related client work (focus on supply chain, procurement, and manufacturing), team and client promoters
- A highly motivated person, who is a committed and inclusive tea