Position: Private Equity Knowledge Specialist (Asia Pacific)
Department: Product, Practice & Knowledge
Reports to: Private Equity APAC Practice Area Manager
Offices: Singapore, New Delhi

Company Overview:
Bain & Company is one of the world’s leading global business consulting firms, serving clients across six continents. It was founded in 1973 on the principle that consultants must measure their success in terms of their clients’ financial results. Bain’s clients have outperformed the stock market 4 to 1. With offices in all major cities, Bain has worked with over 4,150 major multinational and other corporations from every economic sector, in every region of the world.

Job Description:
Knowledge Specialists play a critical role in supporting Bain’s ability to deliver outstanding results for our clients. This position is a full-time role supporting Bain’s Asia Pacific Private Equity practice area.

Major Activities:
• Coordinates and manages the capture and sharing of Bain’s internal Asia Pacific Private Equity practice knowledge base
• Manages, designs and maintains the Practice Area site(s) on Bain’s Intranet; ensures newest cases and insights are represented; identifies content gaps
• Captures case-related information from client development and case team efforts into Bain’s global Intranet platform. This includes the capture and processing of case summaries, proposals, case examples, capability and product insights, tools and templates, as well as the meta-tagging of case information to facilitate user searching
• Helps create and package content and insights in a manner consistent with Bain’s professional standards guidelines
• Provides support to Partners and other members of the consulting staff on selling and serving activities
• Helps arm client development and case teams with the “latest and greatest” Bain perspectives
• Assists with proposal development in select situations e.g. credentials
• Helps identify leading Bain experts & develop credentials materials on key topics within the practice area
• Manages regular revenue and pipeline reporting for the Practice
• Tracks, analyses and ensures integrity of Practice Area revenue reporting
• Collate and maintains up-to-date pipeline information
• Supports practice management activities
• Helps organize Practice Area meetings and calls, marketing events and practice publication efforts
• Provides data analysis support for annual planning activities
• Assists with key account planning for priority clients
• Monitors Asia private equity market trends and maintains database of private equity deals
• Supports practice intellectual property development efforts through researching external information sources
• Serves as a member of Bain’s global knowledge management team according to Bain’s Operating Principles:
o Contributes as a member of a larger team (e.g., participates in Product, Practice & Knowledge group projects, training, experience sharing, mentoring and other initiatives, etc.)
o Regularly communicates issues and progress to Practice Area Manager(s)
o Demonstrates flexibility with the changing demands of industry, the Leadership team, commercial demand for varying products
o Liaises with others as necessary, including members of the global services departments

• Supports new product development and deployment efforts as needed
o Ensures internal teams have best content at the beginning of the effort
o Communicates key needs of the market based off of internal demands of the Practice
o Manages all the new content processing and updates to Intranet
o Helps to ensure that the commercial deployment plan is executed with success

Qualifications:
• BA or equivalent undergraduate degree required with strong academic credentials; MBA would be a bonus
• 3+ years experience in a professional services firm environment with exposure to one or more of the following functional disciplines: knowledge management, consulting, marketing, finance, strategic planning, business development, product development, and/or project management
• Attentive to detail and very organized
• Passion for business issues especially related to private equity
• Intellectual curiosity and thirst for learning
• Results focused
• Ability to self motivate and work semi-autonomously
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, English language skills required
• Strong presentation skills – ability to communicate with senior business executives
• Strong problem solving and analytical abilities
• Superior customer service attitude and ability to contribute on a team
• Strong proficiency in Excel, Microsoft Power Point, and Word

Qualified candidates should send a cover letter and resume to Christine.Kivisto@Bain.com.

For more information please visit www.bain.com.