Project Leader - Healthcare and Lifescience COE

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.

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