Practice Consultant - Global Energy & Materials Center (GEM-C)

Bain & Company; Ciudad de México; Presencial; MXN 800,000 - 1,200,000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

A leading management consulting firm based in Mexico City is seeking a Practice Consultant to support expertise development in energy and materials. The ideal candidate will have a master's degree and significant experience in analytics and consulting. This role involves designing and developing intellectual property, supporting selling processes, and engaging with clients directly.

Formación

• 4-5 years of experience after master's degree or 5-8 years after undergrad.
• Track record of analytics leading to insights.
• Experience in consulting or relevant industry.

Responsabilidades

• Support IP and expertise development across GEM-C.
• Focus on IP design and development.
• Provide selling and serving support directly to case teams.

Conocimientos

Analytical skills

Problem-solving

Knowledge of energy and materials

Communication skills

Educación

Master's degree or higher

Herramientas

Digital tools affinity

Descripción del empleo

About Us

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.

Who you’ll work with

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 stakeholder groups include:

• Energy & Natural Resource (ENR): Primary user of GEM-C services; provides “voice of frontline” and direction on client needs. Ultimate accountability for maintenance and development of supply-side IP and GEM-C overall
• Sustainability: Developer of carbon transition related products for ENR, and energy transition products for AMS, PEG and other industries. Differential focus on product development (vs. expertise)
• Social Impact: Deploy investments to advance Bain’s knowledge and commercial positioning on priority topics
• RDS: Support the development of partnerships with key data vendors
• Marketing: Deep interfaces with GEM-C to ensure depth and breadth on key topics externally. Innovation to streamline processes, including enhanced publication schedules

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 center in the work pertaining to these industries.

What you’ll do

The Practice Consultant will support IP and expertise development across GEM-C. The primary topic scope for the Practice Consultant is to support topics which relate to molecules (similar team roles exist focused on electrons and focused on minerals / broader commodities).

Key content topics (not exhaustive) included in the scope are biofuels, clean hydrogen & derivatives, and circularity & renewable materials. The Practice Consultant will also work with other topic owners to define impacts of broader market developments on molecule-focused sectors (fuels and chemicals mostly, in close collaboration with the relevant sector PAMs), and will be responsible to work with all ENR sector PAMs to ensure topic IP is tailored to the individual sectors to maximize commercial value of the IP. The Practice Consultants will periodically also support macro-level priority topics for GEM-C.

Topic prioritization will be done at the GEM-C level, based on inputs from ENR and Sustainability leadership, frontline partners, and our clients. Therefore, the Practice Consultant will report into and closely work with the Head of the GEM-C (Peter Meijer) to define focus and to get overall guidance on activities. For macro-level priority topics the Practice Consultant will also work directly with the Head of GEM-C for content guidance.

The Practice Consultant will focus the majority of time on IP development and deployment. As expertise grows there is opportunity to increase the share of time on direct selling support.

• IP design & development
• Develop elements of cross-sector specific IP, including POVs, reports
• Support POV development on overall GEM-C priorities, implications of macro-level changes into energy and materials, and cross-sector transition themes
• Manage critical IP for select cross-sector priorities, in close collaboration with key experts (especially PPK sector managers and select partner and SMAP affiliates who have specific expertise)
• Lead market modelling efforts in close collaboration with BCN IP team, and in alignment with Intersect
• Ensure consistency of viewpoints / insights of topics and IP, with broader views across the GEM-C ecosystem (Intersect and other topics) and outside of GEM-C (other practices where relevant)
• Actively seek for opportunities to automate workflows (e.g., adopting data APIs, automating basic updates, …)
• IP deployment, delivery and commercialization
• Build introduction and training materials for affiliates to get up to speed faster on the latest topic IP
• Work across ENR sectors and regions to tailor generic insights to the sector or region, and create relevant materials to support commercial motions (selling and serving)
• Act as topic advisor to the broader GEM-C and practice team (e.g., sector PAMs, KM team, BCN, Intersect)
• Support marketing efforts to bring topic insights to our clients (publications, events, …)

Selling and serving support

• Provide direct support to case teams during selling process and case delivery, leveraging specific topic expertise (content advisory)
• Engage directly with clients as an expert (opportunity to develop over time based on accumulated expertise)

About You

• Master’s degree or higher, with 4-5 years of working experience post-studies or undergrad degree with 5-8 years of professional services or relevant industry experience
• Demonstrated track record of robust analytics leading to transformative insights and outcomes
• Deep understanding of professional services, ideally in a consulting or functional research setting
• Analytical and problem solving skills and expertise to push insights to conclusive recommendations
• Ability to effectively drive a piece of work end-to-end with limited direction
• Affinity with digital tools and an interest to optimize workflows and develop new solutions that support Bain’s commercial strength
• Can perform complex, accurate analysis
• Continuously learns from one experience to another and makes thoughtful recommendations on improvements
• Structure and design impactful slides and updates; can clearly communicate insights and implications of work
• Steer and direct highly effective small meetings; participates in meetings with more senior stakeholders and appropriately shares opinion
• Track record of inspiring, motivating and apprenticing junior team members
• Energy and materials experience and expertise, specifically in molecule-focused value chains (fuels, chemicals)