Senior Manager, Strategic Intelligence, Global Strategy and Operations

Description & Requirements

This role is open to US Bain offices with a strong preference for NYC, Chicago, and Boston offices. 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. We are currently the #1 ranked consulting firm on Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work list and have maintained a spot in the top four on Glassdoor’s list since its founding in 2009. Extraordinary teams are at the heart of our business strategy, but these don’t happen by chance. They require intentional focus on bringing together a broad set of backgrounds, cultures, experiences, perspectives, and skills in a supportive and inclusive work environment. We hire people with exceptional talent and create an environment in which every individual can thrive professionally and personally. WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH Global Strategy and Operations, Office of the Worldwide Managing Partner (WMP) supports Bain’s global strategy and operations initiatives, including strategy development, review, and deployment; governance priorities and processes; strategic resourcing; and WMP events and communications. The team also coordinates with other departments across Bain, including Finance, Marketing, Commercial Operations, Talent, Technology Services, Regions, and Vector, to ensure alignment of key priorities. WHERE YOU’LL FIT WITHIN THE TEAM The Strategic Intelligence Senior Manager sits at the center of how Bain understands the evolution of the consulting industry and its relative position in a fast-evolving competitive landscape. The role shapes Bain’s understanding of the external environment in which it competes by producing high-quality analysis, connecting dots across workstreams, and surfacing implications that no single analysis would reveal on its own. To enable this critical mission, the Senior Manager supports strategic intelligence efforts by delivering insights on the full portfolio of recurring industry and competitor intelligence analytics that inform the firm’s strategy and owns WMP/Strategy special projects. Key recurring analyses include competitor intelligence, industry monitoring, innovation sensing, and signpost reviews [see below]. The Senior Manager reports to the Director, Global Strategy & Operations, Office of the WMP, and will work closely with the Bain Corporate Strategy Operating Partner and rotating case team, as well as the Chief of Staff to WMP. This role supports development of materials and insights for conversations with the WMP, Global Operating Committee, Board of Directors and other senior firm leaders. The role guides the Global Strategy & Operations Center of Excellence team, based in India, that supports analytics execution. An ideal candidate for this role has strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to support analysis of strategic questions, helping to structure problems and develop insights from imperfect data. They do not simply produce accurate and defensible estimates; they assemble, augment, and frame findings so senior leaders walk away with a clear point of view. They exercise sound business judgment to decode noise and complexity in market and competitor intelligence, manage a broad portfolio of workstreams with different cadences, stakeholder sets, and data sources comfortably, and continuously push themselves and the team to uncover critical findings and to innovate ways to find higher-quality answers faster and smarter. They proactively contribute to team morale, learning, and sense of spirit; seek opportunities for PD development and team sustainability; and contribute to Bain ‘beyond the core team’ e.g., via office initiatives, diversity groups, other initiatives. WHAT YOU’LL DO Build Competitor Intelligence ~40% Analyze multi-year strategic direction, financial performance (revenues, productivity, and partner economics), capacity by geo & practice, delivery model, M&A and strategic investment, and operating