Deadline: applications for the Bain & Company internships are accepted on a rolling basis | Apply here
Duration: 6-12 weeks
Eligibility: Undergraduates, master’s candidates and applicants with less than three years of work experience
Location: Worldwide offices
About Bain & Company
Bain & Company is one of the world’s leading management consulting firms. They work with top executives to help them make better decisions, convert those decisions to actions and deliver the sustainable success they desire.
For more than 40 years, they’ve been passionate about achieving better results for our clients—results that go beyond financial and are uniquely tailored, pragmatic, holistic and enduring.
Associate consultant intern (ACI)
As an ACI, your summer with Bain & Company begins with a week of intensive training delivered by experienced consultants, similar to the training received by new associate consultants (ACs). After training, you are immediately assigned to an active case (and you may be asked to travel to the client site).
ACIs benefit from the mentorship of Bain & Company’s accomplished consulting staff and from the collegial office environment, in which you’ll forge close relationships with other ACIs and the consulting staff.
While the ACI program is a vigorous learning experience, ACIs also have the opportunity for enriching activities such as meetings with Bain’s practice area leaders and social events, plus access to the world-class professional development and training programs.
While at Bain, many ACIs also choose to participate in Bain’s intramural sports, the AC run nonprofit consulting group Inspire and other office-specific organisations.
Responsibilities
As a Bain ACI, your analytical, interpersonal, creative thinking, business management, and leadership skills will be called upon from day one. You will be placed in the thick of the action as you work side by side with some of the best in the business.
Every day is different but ACIs, like ACs, are commonly responsible for data gathering and analysis; industry research; interviewing key clients, customers and suppliers; and presenting their findings to the team.
In this role, you are exposed to a variety of business issues and quickly learn the fundamentals of Bain’s core tools.
Qualifications
The following are general qualifications and abilities required for the associate consultant intern position at Bain. Please check the local office page for any additional requirements.
- Currently studying for a bachelor’s degree from a renowned educational institution (there are some exceptions to this; please check your office page for more details)
- A solid team player who’s also an independent thinker
- A robust analytical skill set, an endless curiosity and a penchant for thinking the impossible
- Deadline-driven organised and able to multitask
- Strong verbal, written and presentation skills
- Fluency in English is mandatory, but please check the local office page for any additional language requirements
At the end of the summer, ACIs who have met performance expectations will receive an offer to return full-time as an associate consultant once they have graduated from college or university.
Summer associate (intern)
The internship program for business school and advanced degree candidates, Bain’s award-winning summer associate program is more than just a summer internship, it’s a springboard to your whole career—and could quite possibly be the best summer of your life.
It’s an ideal opportunity for MBAs or advanced degree candidates who would like to experience the real world of consulting while getting insight into what a future with Bain would be like.
In 10 exciting, intensive weeks—starting with an amazing week spent with international colleagues at Ocean Edge on Cape Cod learning the core Bain consulting skills—you’ll be in the thick of it: shoulder to shoulder with Bain consultants, tackling complex business challenges and using all your skills to help drive change in a range of organisations from global leaders to start-ups.
Most SAs are amazed at the wealth of industry knowledge, client management and communication skills they acquire and the majority complete their summer with a full-time offer to join Bain as a consultant upon completion of their studies.
Responsibilities
Over the course of the summer—often at the global office of your choice—you will work directly with case teams and clients to solve business problems and drive change, immersed in the responsibilities of a fulltime Bain consultant. You’ll:
- Work closely with full-time consultants (who will provide coaching and mentoring);
- Work with clients from Fortune 500 companies, midsize firms, nonprofits and startups across many fastchanging industries like consumer goods and retail, technology and telecommunications, financial services, industrial products, private equity and more;
- Present the results of your work to partners and clients;
- Apply knowledge and skills from your first year of business school and gain access to an unparalleled range and depth of opportunities.
Qualifications
The following is a list of general qualifications and attributes required for the consultant position at Bain. Please check with the local office page where SA internships are available for any additional requirements:
- A solid team player who’s also an independent thinker
- A robust analytical skill set
- Deadline-driven organised and able to multitask
- Strong verbal, written and presentation skills
- Endless curiosity and a penchant for thinking the impossible
- Willingness to travel and work in a foreign city (if that’s what you desire)
- Fluency in English is mandatory, but please check the local office page for any additional language requirements
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