Practice Senior Manager – Performance Improvement Commercial Practice

Bain & Company; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 75,000 - 99,000; Full time

Job summary

Bain & Company is seeking a Practice Senior Manager in the Performance Improvement practice for the EMEA region. The role focuses on building out commercial capabilities, leading a BCN team, and collaborating with Global Commercial, KM, and PI solution teams.

Strong leadership, client-facing, and IP development experience are required. You will work with senior partners across regions, manage a small team, and contribute to selling motions, IP development, and cross-industry initiatives.

Qualifications

• 8-10 years’ professional services/industry experience + undergrad.
• 6-7 years’ with MBA/Master’s.

Responsibilities

• Provide deep support for high-priority PI opportunities, including proposals.

Skills

Complex problems

Stakeholder mgmt

Communication

Entrepreneurial

People management

Prioritization

Independent work

Education

Undergrad degree

MBA/Master’s

Job description

Who You'll Work With

Over the past two decades, Bain has formalized industry and capability areas, internally known as "Practices", integral to how Bain wins and delivers results to its clients. A practice is considered a business unit of Bain. The primary role of a Practice is to drive growth for Bain in a particular industry or capability, together with offices, and boosting Bain's expertise and commercial excellence.

• Practice Senior Manager – Performance Improvement Commercial Practice
• Work area(s): Analytics, Data, & Research | Product Management & Innovation
• Team: Product, Practice, and Knowledge (PPK)
• Employment type: Permanent Full-Time
• Location(s): Abu Dhabi | Amsterdam | Athens | Berlin | Brussels | Copenhagen | Dubai | Dusseldorf | Frankfurt | Helsinki + 11 offices

The Performance Improvement practice is the largest capability at Bain and is on the forefront of executing Bain’s strategy. Our capability works across all regions and all industries at Bain. Performance Improvement includes the following solutions: Cost Transformation (incl. APT, ZBx, NWC, Complexity), Operations (Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Procurement, Innovation & Product Development), Corporate Support (incl. Automation), and Service Operations.

Within Performance Improvement, we have built Commercial Centers of Excellence in EMEA, AMER and APAC to help our partners commercialize and mobilize quickly for client opportunities. We work with our most senior partners across industries and across the region to sell large/scale Performance Improvement Programs.

This individual will work closely with the EMEA PI Practice Director Lorenzo De Moiana di Cologna and the Global Leaders Aranzazu Echaniz and Stephanie Nelson (APT).

What You'll Do

Our Commercial team supports lead generation, outside-in diagnostics, client discussions as part of sales plays, opportunity-based marketing, building of microsites, and (focus) proposal development. Our team is also on the front-line, learning rapidly from potential clients and frequently pushes learnings and IP needs to the broader practice. Given the team’s experience and deep expertise, the Commercial team may also get pulled in to lead or develop IP, new tools, etc.

The Commercial Practice Senior Manager (EMEA) will be responsible for building out our commercial Capabilities in EMEA and serving commercial needs within the region.

Primary responsibilities and activities of the job will include (not exhaustive):

• Provide deep support and expertise for highest priority PI opportunities, including sales plays through proposals – play a senior advisor and thought partner role
• Grow expertise in our broader PI solutions and products, with a particular focus on how they are sold and key hooks (e.g., inflation, recession response, fueling growth, funding ESG transformations, scaling for growth, etc.)
• Provide strategic insight into key IP or expertise gaps within PI practice, including cross-selling and industry-specific needs, working closely with PI solution teams
• Bring key insights from the "front lines" back to PI solutions and products, ensuring that our IP and diagnostics are providing what is needed to win
• Win/loss intelligence and analysis: run debrief calls with pitch teams; ask probing questions based on client context; develop an informed perspective on insights and patterns that is shared with Solution leadership
• Drive innovation in our selling motions, through things like video testimonials, microsites, LinkedIn campaigns, forums, etc. (working with Marketing team)
• Coordinate with other Commercial resources and practice resources (e.g., Global Commercial teams, KM team, other PAMs, etc.)

Team management

• Co-lead (together with a BCN Senior Manager) a BCN team of 5-6 colleagues, i.e., setting the tone and working norms for the team and provide regular feedback on professional development

As a Practice Senior Manager, the individual will be an integral part of:

• The Global PI practice team (50+ team members across the 3 regions)
• A community of 15+ PI Practice Senior Manager, Directors and VPs globally (a team of peers with which to collaborate, learn from and experience-share)
• Bain’s broader Product, Practice, and Knowledge (PPK) team globally (supporting all industries and capabilities)
• The need to fill this role is immediate. Location is flexible across EMEA.

About You

Education & Experience

• 8-10 years' professional services / industry (e.g., Manufacturing, Financial Services, Engineering, etc.) experience + undergrad
• 6-7 years' with MBA/Master's

Experience:

• Experience / expertise or strong interest in driving Bain’s commercial success in Performance Improvement across all industries

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Ability to independently tackle complex business problems while juggling competing priorities; can scope, plan, quality check and efficiently deliver exceptional work with insight-driven packaging and communications
• Track record of deploying credible expertise on large domains with good results
• Able to make unique thought contributions (not just an aggregator of others' ideas) with eye to commercial results
• Can collaborate directly with senior stakeholders without an intermediary, and appropriately design and execute against a plan when additional support or actions are needed to reach alignment
• Capable and inspiring people manager who can apprentice and develop through management (direct or indirect) of people and/or processes
• Demonstrated problem solving and organizational skills, and is a proven self-starter (comfortable with a remote supervisor and team)
• Strong communication skills and ability to establish credibility and engage productively to drive action with senior leaders
• Entrepreneurial, proactive, and productive - someone who knows how to prioritize what needs to be done and rallies colleagues to get things accomplished; "roll up the sleeves" type of attitude

Additional Requirements

• Flexibility with hours needed to work with global team
• In-office requirements as per local office and PPK guidelines
• Language requirements: English (fluent)

The annualized base salary range for this role in Italy is €74,500 - €99,000 gross per year.

This compensation information has been determined based on objective and gender-neutral criteria and reflects the compensation normally applicable to the position at the time of publication. Actual compensation may vary based on factors such as relevant experience, skills, qualifications, and the scope of responsibilities associated with the role.

Variable Compensation:

This role is eligible for an annual performance bonus of up to 25% of base salary. Bonus awards are discretionary and actual bonus outcomes depend on individual and firm performance.

Firm Performance Bonus (FPB) is included only if relevant:

This role is eligible for participation in Bain's Firm Performance Bonus (FPB) program. For the current year and this role, FPB can be up to 6% of base salary plus performance bonus, and its calculation depends on company performance. This bonus payment is discretionary.

This position is subject to the provisions of the following Collective Bargaining Agreement (CCNL): Contratto Collettivo Nazionale di Lavoro per i lavoratori addetti all'industria metalmeccanica e della installazione di impianti