Specialist Associate Consultant, PEG Technology Insights Group 2024 London, England
Job description
What makes us a great place to work
Bain & Company is a global consultancy that helps the world’s most ambitious change makers define the future. Across 65 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. For 40 years, we've been passionate about achieving better results for our clients—results that go beyond financial and are uniquely tailored, pragmatic, holistic and enduring. This is all part of why Bain is consistently ranked as one of the best firms to work for.
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.
What is the PEG Technology Insights Group
The Private Equity Group (PEG) practice supports our clients across the investment life cycle from deal generation and due diligence to portfolio value creation and exit planning. Our global practice is three times larger than any competitor and in the past decade we have advised on over half of all large buyout transactions worldwide.
The PEG Technology Insights Group extends the PEG practice’s capabilities to act as technical advisors in investment processes with a focus on software and tech enabled businesses. It is a rapidly growing global team, and as we scale the initial focus will be on conducting product and technology due diligence engagements and value creation assignments.
What the role involves
You will get deep exposure and access to the leading software and tech enabled companies globally, typically 10-20 companies each year. These companies span enterprise applications, vertical applications (HealthTech, FinTech, EdTech), infrastructure software, cloud software, and tech enabled services (IT services, e-Commerce, AdTech). On assignments, you will work closely with our global experts comprising former CTOs and CPOs of leading global technology and software companies, leading private equity investor clients, and our commercial diligence teams.
This is a particularly exciting time to join the team - we have ambitious growth plans and you will be contributing to building and scaling a new global capability within Bain & Company.
What you will do:
- Perform primary and secondary research: collect and analyze quantitative and qualitative data across a variety of sources to test or further our understanding of the business or market.
- Product strategy and roadmap assessments: contribute to the assessment of product positioning and roadmap completeness and viability.
- Technology strategy and roadmap assessments: contribute to the assessment of architectures (current and future), technical debt, and related areas such as hosting and security.
- Develop and communicate insights and recommendations to the project team, technology leaders, and PE investors.
The following are highly valued:
- Undergraduate/Master’s degree from a top tier university in a relevant field (i.e., computer science, data science, statistics, information systems, engineering, business management).
- Passion for software as well as the tech industry more broadly
- Client service orientation and EQ
- Ability to deliver high-impact client results in a fast-paced and evolving deal situation environment
- Strong interpersonal skills and emotional agility
- Outstanding oral and written communication skills
- Analytical and data-driven mindset
- Inquisitive mindset and eager to learn
- Aptitude for creative, quantitative, and qualitative problem solving.
- Entrepreneurial mindset and teamwork
- Entrepreneurial, curious, creative, and innovative thinking
- Strong belief in agile continuous improvement principles
- Passion to bring Bain principles and values to life
Throughout your career at Bain you will participate in world class formal and informal training programmes in order to ensure you continuously develop your skills. In addition, you will be assigned a mentor to help guide you through your career and will develop a network of your peers across teams and offices.
Working alongside an outstanding group of individuals, you will develop and enhance your own technology expertise, commercial acumen, and analytical capabilities. Whether your long-term goal is to grow with us, join a PE/VC firm, or to start the next great technology company, you will build a fantastic foundation by joining our multi-talented and highly motivated team.
Bain is a meritocracy - your progression is driven purely by your performance, not by your tenure.
