Challenging work and the chance to make a difference
While working at Bain consultants often find themselves in the middle of challenging projects on several different industries and sectors. At the start of the career it is also normal for consultants to change the scope of the project together with the working team, which offers our staff many different experiences promoting significant professional development.
The challenging scope of projects always gives our consultants the opportunity for more responsibility and makes it difficult for them to remain in their comfort zone, which helps accelerate professional development. In leadership roles, Bain entrusts managers with broad knowledge about a project's scope and partners who are specialists in the industry, which gives the consultants a guarantee that the job will be well done.
Even when it comes to projects with different strategic relevance, our focus is always the same: our team has the objective to promote changes and to make a difference regardless of whether we are working for big corporations or helping nonprofit clients to fulfill their role in society.
Finally, our consultants can be sure they will work closely together with the client's top management. This is a real opportunity to work side by side with important leaders at our client's organization and help them solve a wide array of challenges.
Enormous opportunity for learning development
At Bain our people are our most valuable asset, therefore, Bain invests a great deal in training sessions throughout the entire consulting career. So that all consultants can understand the unique and global culture of Bain, the sessions take place in many different countries (US, Mexico, Thailand, Spain, etc.) with the participation of consultants from our offices around the world.
Our training sessions are also spread out through the different steps of our consultant's career, so that they can gather important instruction throughout their accelerated career.
Another important aspect of professional development is the daily feedback all consultants receive from managers and partners who have extensive working experience and seek to provide meaningful coaching.
Learn more about what Bain does on our global recruiting website.
Fast-track career with high compensation
The Bain career has only five levels: associate consultant, consultant, case team leader, manager and partner. This path is known for its promotion speed. A new hire can start his or her career at Bain working as an associate consultant or as a consultant. Usually, a Bainie will spend three years as an associate consultant and two years as a consultant. Ultimately, if a new professional chooses not to get his or her MBA, it is possible to increase the average salary by a multiple of five within five years.
Also, after the end of the associate consultant career step, the consultant may choose to get an MBA at any of the most respected international business schools such as Harvard, Stanford or Wharton.
It is important to stress that it is not mandatory to have an MBA to continue your career at Bain, but is rather a choice available to our consultants.
Learn more about career progression at Bain on our global website.
Cooperative and fun work environment
To work with professionals driven by results, from the best colleges in the region and the world, and to work with great teams combined with the top management of our clients to create value on strategic topics entails a lot of responsibility and is a great challenge.
We believe that to achieve the excellent level our clients expect it is necessary that our consultants be able to work in a pleasant and enjoyable daily working environment. Another important aspect of the daily environment is the cooperation among our consultants, which is often highlighted with one important aspect of our culture: a Bainie never lets another Bainie fail. We know that we would never be able to deliver great results without our excellent teamwork.
To promote great working environments Bain invests a lot in the integration of its office, organizing different social events for its consultants such as happy hours, team events, office retreats and the Bain World Cup.
Still don't believe how much fun it can be to work for Bain? Visit joinbain.com to learn how our consultants have fun outside the office.
International experience
With more than 40 offices worldwide, working for Bain is a real international experience. Even without leaving the office, you will be able to meet and work with people from different countries throughout the world.
Besides our international training sessions and the possibility of studying abroad at a traditional business school for your MBA, Bain offer consultants the possibility to transfer to another Bain office in another country for six months. We believe that this opportunity helps to intensify our unique global culture while providing our consultants with new, important work experiences.
In the last few years the São Paulo office has received transferees from different Bain offices such as Madrid, Munich, Boston and Zurich. At the same time, we have sent many of our consultants to offices such as New York, Boston, San Francisco and Sydney.
Learn more about our worldwide offices on joinbain.com.
