Lead, Operations Research

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Manager, Operations Research, Advanced Analytics Group

WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH

Bain & Company is a global consultancy that helps the world’s most ambitious change makers define the future. This is an opportunity to be a key member of Bain’s Advanced Analytics Group, which is Bain’s expanding advanced analytics capability area. The Advanced Analytics Group is a team of high-impact quantitative technology specialists who solve statistical, machine learning, and data engineering challenges that we encounter in our client engagements.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

Applications will be broad and global including supply chain and logistics, inventory and resource planning, manufacturing and retail, network and service operations, and marketing and sales.
- Work with Bain consultants and Advanced Analytics experts to clarify and define business objectives and identify practical value-added analytics solutions
- Translate business problems into practical solutions for statistical analysis, simulation and optimization. Develop data requirements and analytics plan to fit time, tool and budget considerations
- Formulate statistical, mathematical and/or simulation models including: establish the appropriate framework, set constants and variables, evaluate and set assumptions, define stochastic processes, determine alternatives and decision factors, define objectives and constraints.
- Implement, evaluate and validate algorithms, statistical processes, and optimization and simulation models
- Identify and communicate insights; model processes and functions; limitations and risks. Assist client-facing consultants in developing recommendations
- Advise or build visualization and decision support tools to facilitate use of algorithms by clients in day to day and strategic decisions after Bain projects end
- Train and coach consultants on basic statistical, optimization, and simulation procedures. Assist in knowledge transfer and deployment with end-clients
- Train and coach other AAG colleagues on skills, processes and tools required so support OR, Optimization, Simulation, and Forecasting related work
- Stay abreast of developments in the field and continue to advance Bain capabilities to serve clients. Identify trends in Data Science and Digital that will impact Bain and AAG work and help bring those perspectives to the AAG team and Practice leaders
- Communicate with and educate both senior and junior colleagues to further embed management science and operations analytics across the firm

ABOUT YOU
- Master’s degree or higher in a related discipline such as Industrial Engineering, Operations Research, quantitative Management Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or Computer Science (or equivalent work experience)
- Expertise in Optimization techniques, languages, and experience in formulating and implementing optimization solvers, linear, integer, non-linear. Able to reformulate complex problems into more tractable solutions, including use of heuristic algorithms. Familiar with advanced optimization modelling languages, e.g. Gurobi, CPLEX
- Strong skills in data wrangling and engineering (e.g. SQL, R, Python)
- Familiarity with dynamic, discrete event, and stochastic simulation methods and languages
- Must thrive in a fast-paced environment and be able to work independently
- Strong skills in scoping, problem definition and problem solving under time constraints
- Fluent in English. Other European languages are a plus
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Up to 40% travel required

Nice to have
- Experience in risk modelling and building decision support tools
- Skills in multi-dimensional modelling and enterprise, ERP/MRP databases, e.g. Oracle, SAP, etc.

WHAT MAKES BAIN A GREAT PLACE TO WORK AT

**CULTURE**: You’ll be working in an inspiring culture with smart, supportive colleagues, a capable leadership team and excellent development opportunities. That’s not recruitment hyperbole - its genuine feedback from the company’s own people, that’s kept them near the very top of Glassdoor’s ‘Best Places To Work’ for over a decade.

**IMPACT**: This is one of the world’s biggest, best-known consultancies where you can make a huge commercial impact for household-name clients. You’ll work on projects with C-Suite sponsorship so, instead of making incremental improvements or tinkering at a departmental level, you’ll be helping to solve global, strategic problems.

**VARIETY**: Whether you’re already in consultancy but stuck in a specific sector or in-house with a narrow brief and diminishing returns, you’ll relish the variety here. There’s a refreshing range of projects spanning different industries, countries and corporate cultures.