Associate - Healthcare and Lifescience COE
Description & Requirements
About us
Bain & Company is a global consultancy that helps the world’s most ambitious change makers define the future. Across 61 offices in 39 countries, we work alongside our clients as one team with a shared ambition to achieve extraordinary results, outperform the competition and redefine industries. Since our founding in 1973, we have measured our success by the success of our clients, and we proudly maintain the highest level of client advocacy in the industry.
In 2004, the firm established its presence in the Indian market by opening the Bain Capability Center (BCC) in New Delhi. The BCC is now known as BCN (Bain Capability Network) with its nodes across various geographies. BCN is an integral and largest unit of (ECD) Expert Client Delivery. ECD plays a critical role as it adds value to Bain's case teams globally by supporting them with analytics and research solutioning across all industries, specific domains for corporate cases, client development, private equity diligence or Bain intellectual property. The BCN comprises of Consulting Services, Knowledge Services and Shared Services.
Who you will work with
BCN HC COE provides specialized support to global teams across the healthcare and life sciences value chain, enabling clients to make strategic business and investment decisions. BCN HC COE provides an opportunity to solve challenging business problems in a dynamic set-up working closely with global Bain teams, acting as a thought-partner with daily deliverables.
The HC practice serves leading companies across domains such as Pharmaceuticals, MedTech, Providers, Payers and Digital Health. The team is primarily focused on collaborating with practice/ case teams on the development and deployment of industry specific analytical products and topic expertise to answer strategic questions of Bain’s HC clients. Our teams work in a fast-paced environment delivering consistent and impactful results at scale. In the last 2 years, we have witnessed an exponential growth, reaching 30+ members in 2025 We operate from the India office and work across all key regions (EMEA, Americas and APAC).
As an Associate, you will be an active member of the team from Day 1, learning how to make businesses more valuable and responsible for generating healthcare specific domain & company insights, to support global Bain case teams, client development teams and industry practices. Associate take responsibility for completing the given analysis and providing timely and useful inputs on related dimensions. They generate sound hypotheses and proactively help to focus on the most leveraged issues, using various tools and techniques. This may include industry research, preparing presentations, data analysis and other initiatives.
About you
- Undergraduate with strong academic records and min. 2 years of relevant experience Or postgraduate with strong academic records and 0-1 years of relevant experience (education in healthcare/pharma/biotech will be a plus, but not a requirement)
- Excellent analytic skills, communication skills and a team player
- Experience in databases such as Thomson Reuters, CapitalIQ, Factiva and D&B preferred
- Ability to work with MS Excel and PowerPoint is highly desirable
- Knowledge of any visualization or languages like Alteryx, Tableau and Python/R is a plus
- Prior experience in similar analytical/ consulting role will be a plus
What you’ll do
- Responsible for his/her workstream and conduct analysis with support from supervisor
- Understand the work plan effectively and part of the workstream to work on
- Take complete ownership of assigned task and execute it with zero defect; comfort to handle pressure and deadlines
- Able to quickly come up to speed on different businesses, topics and perform research and analysis across geographies and industries
- Proficient in research, ability to identify and apply the relevant analytical tools for own analysis
- Follow an answer first approach with ability to generate hypothesis supported by robust business insights
- Proactively flag roadblocks and identify potential solutions
- Support supervisor in work-planning and brainstorming on key recommendations/potential impact
- Communicate business insights effectively
- Understand client needs & situations and adapt to case expectations. Show ability to resolve problems with support from team members
- Contribute effectively in internal meetings in a confident and articulate manner
- Create high impact client deliverables with a structured storyline to communicate key insights
- Seek appropriate coaching and guidance from supervisors and proactively drive self-learning for own professional development
- Self-motivated, exert positive influence on others and exhibit role model behavior
- Facilitate cross sharing of learnings/ tools/ within and across teams
What makes us a great place to work
We are proud to be consistently recognized as one of the world's best places to work, a champion of diversity and a model of social responsibility. We are currently ranked the #1 consulting firm on Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work list, and we have maintained a spot in the top four on Glassdoor's list for the last 12 years. 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.