Sustainability Practice Consultant (Tech/AI)

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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

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 can be considered a Business Unit of Bain & Company. While there may be some allocation to client-facing work, the role within a Practice is primarily focused on supporting our client-facing partners and case teams to deliver great client and people success stories. Specifically, the Practice defines and implements their own strategy and allocates resources to: 

Boosts Bain’s knowledge and expertise in the sector or capability: co-create, shape and manage innovative perspectives and products to help the business win more projects, and to serve clients more effectively and efficiently

• Prioritize clients and enable client full potential
• Develop partner team and capabilities
• Build the practice’s brand and reputation externally

For an overview of Bain’s Industry and Capability Practice architecture, visit www.Bain.com.

WHERE YOU’LL FIT WITHIN THE TEAM

Sustainability (which covers environmental, social, and economic justice issues) is an increasingly important topic for our clients. In the Sustainability Practice, we help our clients make critical decisions that impact the core of their business strategy, related to sustainability strategy, the environmental and social impact of operations, stakeholder engagement, and sustainability-related growth and cost opportunities. We work to ensure that sustainability efforts are anchored in business fundamentals and demonstrate a clear return on investment – and that those efforts are then firmly embedded within our clients' strategy and operations.

Read more about our Sustainability consulting services to learn more about our work.

The Practice Consultant is a critical member of the Sustainability Practice, and the analytical, interpersonal, creative thinking, business management and leadership skills will be called upon from day one. You will also work alongside the Practice team to become a critical contributor to help achieve the Practice’s annual and longer-term goals which includes driving global collaboration, supporting case teams to drive results with clients, building new intellectual property (IP) and increasing our visibility and reinforcing our competitive differentiation externally. 

WHAT YOU’LL DO 

The scope of work is flexible but will likely fall into the following main categories.

Solution design, development, deployment, and delivery 

• Develop elements of specific IP, including global reports, research briefs, market overviews and solution/topic specific materials tailored to specific sectors/industries
• Support planning for commercializing IP and solution development, for example by developing business cases for investment, including ROI modeling, impact assessment, and commercialization planning
• Provide hands-on support for clients and case teams, for example in leveraging technology solutions
• Build elements of training materials for affiliates on latest IP
• Identify issues, create hypotheses, and execute analysis; translate data into meaningful insights; present recommendations to key decision-makers
• Support the day-to-day implementation of transformation projects, focusing primarily on the delivery and operationalization of strategic initiatives to achieve significant business outcomes and impact
• Run analysis and support business case development for solution investments
• Contribute to digital and AI scaling efforts by identifying opportunities to embed automation, analytics, and emerging technologies that enhance delivery and impact 

Practice strategy, planning, and reporting 

• Support data collection, maintenance, and analysis on experts and commercial collateral 
• Provide direct proposal support
• Bring together disparate data sources; highlight issues and spot trends to inform decision-making
• Drive and support the primary and secondary research efforts of the team; collect and analyze quantitative and qualitative data across a variety of sources
• Codify best practices 
• Contribute to additional projects and perform select ad hoc analytics
• Contribute to a culture of innovation by surfacing new ideas, sharing learnings from pilots, and championing the use of emerging technologies within the practice

Practice communications and teaming 

• Work effectively cross-practice and cross-functionally; proactively share and solicit information across practice, focusing on the key implications
• Train and informally coach junior team members, as appropriate

ABOUT YOU 

Education & Experience

• 5-8 years top tier management consultant or equivalent experience + undergrad, or 4-5 years experience with MBA/Master’s 

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• 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
• 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
• Passion for sustainability and deploying cutting-edge sustainability techniques and tools that help clients accelerate their growth and reach full potential
• Familiarity with AI/ML technologies and tools (e.g., Python, R, OpenAI APIs), with an applied understanding of how they can create business value
• Comfort with AI technologies and tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Grok), with an applied understanding of how they can create business value
• Interest for the tech industry broadly (e.g., digital transformation, disruptive business models)
• Fluency in English 

Preferred Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Demonstrated product thinking: able to frame user needs, inform feature prioritization, and guide digital solution development in partnership with technical teams
• Experience working cross-functionally with technical and non-technical teams, including engineers, product managers, and sustainability experts
• Familiarity with machine learning workflows and tools (e.g., model training, evaluation, or deployment), with the ability to collaborate effectively with data scientists/ML engineers
• Ability to communicate technical or digital concepts to non-technical stakeholders