Research & Data Services
Research & Data Services
We’re Bain’s guardians of external data. Whenever case teams or leaders must know the size of a particular market, or need a sudden, specific understanding of the strength of a pharma company’s pipeline, they turn to us, and we turn to our vast portfolio of tools, methods, and data providers. If you like to research for a purpose, this might be the team for you.
Field questions of all sizes and complexity, micro to macro, and help our consulting teams present deeply informative findings.
Help negotiate, curate, and manage a truly extensive portfolio of data sources and contracts. Where we can, we economize, and get a great return on that data.
Some answers defy all searches, so we collaborate with our knowledge management and analytics teams to leverage their knowledge and resources.
We’re an agile team and the better we enable our consultants, the more informed we all are, and the more successful our clients are.
The field of research is changing rapidly. We're experimenting with large language models, artificial intelligence, and lots else.
We look for people who combine a love of research with business acumen
We act as Bain’s portal to the external world of data and insights. We conduct secondary research to discover, distill, and present information to help case teams—our primary client—answer pressing questions. We each have deep knowledge in specific, specialized areas, but also a wide awareness of what other data might exist, and where to look.
This team is global and we support each other through a collaborative network of research teams. We operate out of several dozen locations and are in perpetual communication with one another. While we don’t consult clients directly, we do mix a love of pursuing knowledge with a practical knack for supporting Bain’s commercial aims.
What’s particularly exciting about this team is how fast the discipline of research is changing. You’ll be working at the forefront of artificial intelligence-augmented research as we experiment with large language models, chatbots, and new interfaces.
What our people love about working on this team
This job offers vast opportunity for personal growth. You’ll get to expand your knowledge quickly on a great variety of topics.
You’ll get to see how your work helps Bain win new clients and help existing ones make decisions that may even impact your local community.
Learn how a top firm negotiates, manages, packages, shares, and earns a return on external research. You’ll also get to form relationships with data partners.
Here, you'll work on fast-moving projects with big, rewarding outcomes, with colleagues who would never let you fail.
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