Practice Consultant - Global Energy & Materials Center (GEM-C)

About Us

Bain & Company is the management consulting firm that the world’s business leaders come to when they want results. Bain advises clients on strategy, operations, information technology, organization, private equity, digital transformation and strategy, and mergers and acquisition, developing practical insights that clients act on and transferring skills that make change stick. The firm aligns its incentives with clients by linking its fees to their results. Bain clients have outperformed the stock market 4 to 1. Founded in 1973, Bain has 58 offices in 37 countries, and its deep expertise and client roster cross every industry and economic sector.

Bain has formalized industry and capability “Practices” which are integral to how Bain wins and delivers results to its clients. Together they form PPK (Product, Practice, and Knowledge). The role of a Practice is to drive growth for Bain in a particular industry or capability together with offices, and boost Bain’s expertise and commercial excellence.

Who you’ll work with

The Practice Consultant will be part of Bain’s Global Energy & Materials Center (GEM-C).

Bain has recently established the GEM-C to support Bain’s ambition for commercial acceleration in energy and materials. GEM-C will be a step-change in developing and maintaining world-class intellectual property to support commercial efforts – this is not a siloed ‘think tank’ but rather will be integrated into our commercial processes. GEM-C is on a multi-year journey aiming to address several pain points in the current expertise model that is both fragmented and resource-intensive.

The GEM-C works across multiple practices and several Bain functions to develop and maintain Bain’s expertise related to energy and materials. Collectively we refer to this as the GEM-C ecosystem. Key practices and stakeholder groups include :

• Energy & Natural Resource (ENR) : Primary user of GEM-C services; provides “voice of frontline” and direction on client needs. Ultimate accountability for maintenance and development of supply-side IP and GEM-C overall
• Sustainability : Developer of carbon transition related products for ENR, and energy transition products for AMS, PEG and other industries. Differential focus on product development (vs. expertise)
• Social Impact : Deploy investments to advance Bain’s knowledge and commercial positioning on priority topics
• RDS : Support the development of partnerships with key data vendors
• Marketing : Deep interfaces with GEM-C to ensure depth and breadth on key topics externally. Innovation to streamline processes, including enhanced publication schedules

The ENR practice is the primary user of GEM-C services. ENR consists of five sectors : Agribusiness, Chemicals, Mining, Oil & Gas and Utilities & Renewables. Themes like Energy and the Energy Transition, Circularity, Food Sustainability, Engine 2.0, Technology, and Digital innovation are at the core of these sectors and will occupy ever greater center in the work pertaining to these industries.

What you’ll do

The Practice Consultant will support IP and expertise development across GEM-C. The primary topic scope for the Practice Consultant is to support topics which relate to molecules (similar team roles exist focused on electrons and focused on minerals / broader commodities).

Key content topics (not exhaustive) included in the scope are biofuels, clean hydrogen & derivatives, and circularity & renewable materials. The Practice Consultant will also work with other topic owners to define impacts of broader market developments on molecule-focused sectors (fuels and chemicals mostly, in close collaboration with the relevant sector PAMs), and will be responsible to work with all ENR sector PAMs to ensure topic IP is tailored to the individual sectors to maximize commercial value of the IP. The Practice Consultants will periodically also support macro-level priority topics for GEM-C.

Topic prioritization will be done at the GEM-C level, based on inputs from ENR and Sustainability leadership, frontline partners, and our clients. Therefore, the Practice Consultant will report into and closely work with the Head of the GEM-C (Peter Meijer) to define focus and to get overall guidance on activities. For macro-level priority topics the Practice Consultant will also work directly with the Head of GEM-C for content guidance.

The Practice Consultant will focus the majority of time on IP development and deployment. As expertise grows there is opportunity to increase the share of time on direct selling support.

Selling and serving support

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