Consultant

Bain & Company; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Bain & Company Australia in Melbourne is seeking experienced consultants to join our growing practice serving a variety of clients across industries. You will work side by side with some of the brightest minds to tackle challenging business problems from day one.

You will contribute to high-impact client work, develop strategic recommendations, and help drive implementation while mentoring junior teammates. The role offers global training, travel opportunities, and a clear path to advancement.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years’ professional experience, including managing or collaborating with others to complete client assignments
• Highly motivated, inclusive team player with strong business sense
• Robust diagnostic and problem solving capability
• Strong verbal, written and presentation skills with data literacy
• Deadline oriented, organised and able to multitask
• Flexible and willing to travel locally and globally
• Experience mentoring junior team members
• Undergraduate/Masters/MBA/PhD from a top university with consistently strong results

Responsibilities

• Research and understand client organization and industry; interview and facilitate workshops with stakeholders
• Identify issues, formulate hypotheses and translate data into insights; present recommendations
• Develop plans to implement strategic recommendations and manage execution
• Mentor junior team members

Skills

Communication skills

Problem solving

Analytical thinking

Team player

Travel flexibility

Education

Top university degree (Bachelors/Masters/MBA/PhD)

Job description

Job Type: Permanent position | Full time position

Job Description

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.

We are currently the top-ranked consulting firm on Glassdoor’s Best Places to

Work list and have earned the #1 overall spot a record seven times. Extraordinary teams are at the heart of our business strategy, but these don’t happen by chance. They require intentional focus on bringing together a broad set of backgrounds, cultures, experiences, perspectives, and skills in a supportive and inclusive work environment.

We hire people with exceptional talent and create an environment in which every individual can thrive professionally and personally. WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH: Imagine a role that builds on your academic and personal capabilities, providing the most interesting business challenges and the opportunity to tackle them with the brightest and most supportive peer group. A role where you’ll make an impact from day one and be set on a global career path that will maximize your future career potential.

We have a long tradition of solving the most challenging problems with notable industry leaders and our consultants are the linchpins of this success. If you’re an ambitious individual who enjoys working with the brightest, most curious minds then we’d love you to join our team. WHAT YOU'LL DO: As a Bain consultant, your analytical, interpersonal, creative thinking, business management and leadership skills will be called upon from day one.

You will be in the thick of the action as you work side-by-side with some of the best in the business. And you will help create change. Every day is different but a sample of the things you can expect to accomplish include:

• Research the client organization and industry; interview, conduct focus groups and facilitate workshops with client employees, management teams and other stakeholders
• Identify issues, create hypotheses and execute analysis; translate data into meaningful insights; present recommendations to key decision makers
• Move the client to action; develop a plan to implement the strategic recommendations; manage the execution
• Be a mentor to junior team members

The learning curve is steep and the rewards – global travel, influential connections, world-class global training, personal satisfaction, unparalleled career-development, and, yes, financial – are second to none. Given the workload and performance expectations of this position, consultants are regularly required to work more than 50 hours/week to perform essential duties of the job. 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 5 years’ professional experience, including managing, or collaborating with others, to successfully complete client assignments or end-to-end project management
• A highly motivated person, who is a committed and inclusive team player, able to think for themselves, with a keen business sense
• A robust diagnostic skillset and demonstrated problem solving capability
• Strong verbal, written and presentation skills, including presenting qualitative and quantitative data
• Deadline orientated, organised and able to multitask
• Flexible and willingness to travel locally and globally
• Experience in managing or mentoring junior team members
• You will hold an undergraduate / masters / MBA / PhD from a top university with consistently strong academic results.

Bain & Company Australia has offices in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth, successful candidates can choose their preferred location. ABOUT US: Bain & Company is a global consultancy that helps the world’s most ambitious change makers define the future. Across 67 offices in 40 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 over $1 billion in pro bono services brings our talent, expertise and insight to organizations tackling today’s urgent challenges in education, racial equity and social justice, economic development and the environment. 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.

Bain & Company Australia is an equal opportunity employer, committed to ensuring diversity and inclusion in our workplace. We encourage applications from all backgrounds, including those of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander descent. An extraordinary career begins with bold steps, for more information and to apply, please visit our Bain Australia webpage: https://www.bain.com/careers/find-a-role/position/?