Project Leader - Healthcare and Lifescience COE

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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
B.Pharm/BDS/BE (BioTech or other disciplines)/ BS (Sciences)/ + MBA from a top-tier Institute/University
Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in a professional services context
Strong academic credentials, analytical ability and leadership skills
Experience in providing internal/external strategic consulting to HC clients, with exposure to HC topics
Should possess excellent analytical, Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and strong communication and team skills
Experienced at managing teams, and adept at multi-tasking. A strong team player and demonstrated ability to motivate team members
Ability to deal with ambiguity, and develop approaches to tackle diligence questions
Excellent communication skills, can drive senior client/stakeholder level discussions
Maturity to lead by example, willingness to get into detail as required while also balancing delegation effectively
Hands-on experience with tools such as Alteryx and Tableau, as well as languages such as R/Python is a plus
What you’ll do
We are looking for a candidate who is a self-starter, result oriented, with hands on consulting/research experience, having exposure to two or more core Healthcare domain areas. Any exposure to data analytics as a part of delivering strategy engagements will be an added advantage. The role would require candidate to hit the ground running in a fast growth environment. The role would require a willingness and ability to take initiative and learn independently
Engage with case team/ Practice leadership on ongoing cases/ CD/ IP/existing products; and ideate in developing deliver case work/ develop new products/IP for Healthcare clients
Build a strong understanding of Pharma/HC IPs and concepts within the team
Help ideate and share commercial ideas for development and deployment of IP Products for various Healthcare case teams
Help case teams in supporting active cases/proposals with domain specific insights
Take responsibility for assigning work streams; monitor and balance workload
Ensure timely, high quality, zero-defect research, analysis and output produced by the analysts
• Provide direct, day-to-day management to a group of 3-4 people • Ability to lead a group of Associates, Senior & Junior Analysts to execute cases with limited guidance from the Team Manager
• Ensures timely, high quality delivery to clients through effective team management; creating hypothesis; defining deliverables and envisaged outputs; drawing the structure and plan; prioritizing and setting daily timelines; reviewing the team’s output, providing feedback and ensuring quality control
• Identifies and proactively engages on critical issues on projects and with clients; Proactively resolve problems, remove roadblocks, escalate issues as needed
• Is proficient at identifying and using the relevant analytical tools and ensure zero-defect in all work streams and ensures quality work delivery
• Wherever needed, leverages advanced tools (Tableau, Alteryx, Python, R, SPSS) to improve team efficiency
• Own and maintain client relationships • Understand client needs and situations and adapt to case expectations. Show ability to resolve complex issues across work streams.
• Communicate data, knowledge, and clearly explain insights and implications for the client to the entire team. Generate and screen realistic answers based on sound reality checks and recommend actionable solutions.
• Effectively manages client and team meetings and deliver clear and professional presentations to the team, team leaders and managers/partners across the Bain system.
• Exerts strong positive influence over developing and retaining top talent • Develop professional development plans, provide coaching/training, recognize accomplishments of direct reports
• Provides day-to-day coaching on work-planning, problem solving, hypothesis generation and research toolkit
• Ability to build connect with the team members through a trust-based relationship at all levels is a must. Acts as a role model and brand ambassador of the Bain culture
• Constructively engages in mutual feedback process with supervisor and direct reportees; provides concrete, regular and actionable feedback
• Deliver performance reviews, recommends ratings
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