Senior Manager

Bain & Company is a global consultancy that helps the world’s most aspiring organisations make change and define the future. Our Australian practice is growing, and we are currently recruiting talented and experienced professionals to join our consulting teams serving a variety of clients across a broad range industries.

What you’ll do:

At Bain, Senior Managers oversee the formulation and implementation of strategic recommendations to improve the performance of Bain’s clients. Your analytical, interpersonal, creative thinking, business management and leadership skills will be called upon from day one. Senior Managers assume responsibility for the case team’s value creation through the analytical process, build and maintain client relationships, and provide leadership, coaching and supervision to case team members.

You will be in the thick of the action as you work side-by-side with some of the best in the business. And you will help create change. Every day is different but a sample of the things you can expect to accomplish include:

• Identifying the value creation opportunities with the client situation.
• Providing intellectual leadership to the team to ensure the highest quality analytic and conceptual output.
• Building and maintaining consensus with the client on objectives, critical issues, workplan, implications, recommendations, and implementation plan. Developing client commitment to recommendations and implementation plans.
• Effectively manage the formal and informal professional development of the case team members. Promote each member’s development through skill planning, coaching, and performance feedback.
• Clearly allocate the responsibilities among caseteam members, balancing the fulfilment of caseteam goals with the professional growth and satisfaction of individuals.
• Contributing to key firm-building initiatives and activities (e.g. involvement in Practice/Capability Area knowledge building efforts, mentoring, recruiting, and training).
• Working collaboratively as member of a case team and with other colleagues.

The learning curve is steep and the rewards – global travel, influential connections, world-class global training, personal satisfaction, unparalleled career-development – are second to none.

What we look for:

We recruit talented and experienced Consulting professionals for our Senior Manager position, ideally with:

• At least ten years’ previous work experience with functional expertise in the form of consulting experience with a track record developed at a mid- to senior-level at another consulting firm.
• Strong analytic, logic and interpersonal skills
• High level of motivation
• Ability to exercise business judgement, to communicate persuasive conclusions and insights, and to build client relationships
• Ability to project poise, confidence and maturity in both internal and external situations
• Ability to effectively supervise/manage team members
• Ability to meet deadlines, often within very tight timeframes
• Ability to serve a full range of client assignments
• Strong verbal, written and presentation skills are important
• MBA from a top business school preferred

Bain & Company Australia has offices in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth, successful candidates can choose their preferred location.

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 campaigner 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.

Bain & Company Australia is an equal opportunity employer, committed to ensuring diversity and inclusion in our workplace. We encourage applications from all backgrounds, including those of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander descent.

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