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WHO YOU'LL WORK WITH
You'll join Bain's London Private Equity Group (LPEG), one of the firm's largest and fastest-growing practices, supporting more than twenty dedicated consulting teams focused on delivering exceptional results for private equity clients.
Working closely with Partners, consulting staff, Human Resources, Revenue, and colleagues across Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), you'll play a central role in supporting consultant staffing, professional development, business operations, and community engagement. This is a highly collaborative position that offers broad exposure to Talent Management and staffing operations while building relationships with senior leaders across Bain.
WHERE YOU'LL FIT WITHIN THE TEAM
As the Specialist, Private Equity Consulting Program, you'll help ensure the smooth day-to-day operation of Bain's London Private Equity Group. You'll support the effective allocation, development, and engagement of consultants while helping continuously improve operational processes and the employee experience.
This is an excellent opportunity for a proactive, highly organized professional who enjoys balancing operational excellence with people-focused work in a fast-paced environment.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
Your responsibilities will span four key areas:
Staffing & Professional Development
- Manage staffing for the Associate Consultant population, balancing business needs with professional development opportunities.
- Maintain visibility of the Private Equity case pipeline to anticipate staffing requirements.
- Build strong relationships with consultants to understand their development goals and availability.
- Partner with Staffing, HR and case leadership to optimize staffing decisions.
- Coordinate performance management processes, including review administration and promotion cycles.
- Support consultant onboarding, rotations, leave arrangements and other workforce planning activities.
- Monitor consultant development and help facilitate successful integration of new joiners.
Client Development & Pipeline Management
- Support business development by coordinating consultant staffing for client development activities.
- Maintain oversight of the London and EMEA opportunity pipeline.
- Coordinate staffing requests across regional teams.
- Provide regular pipeline updates to programme leadership.
Meetings, Events & Community
- Manage the London Private Equity Group calendar and coordinate key meetings.
- Organize induction programmes, training sessions and community events.
- Coordinate in-office connectivity days and biannual team events.
- Help develop initiatives that strengthen engagement, collaboration and team culture.
Programme Operations & Administration
- Coordinate onboarding activities for new joiners.
- Maintain staffing data and ensure operational accuracy across internal systems.
- Partner with Revenue and other teams on staffing administration.
- Coordinate logistics including office space, meeting rooms and programme communications.
- Monitor programme reporting and support performance reporting activities.
ABOUT YOU
We're looking for someone who combines exceptional organizational skills with strong interpersonal abilities and enjoys working in a collaborative, fast-moving environment.
Required Qualifications
- 2-4 years of relevant experience
- Strong organizational and prioritization skills with exceptional attention to detail.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities while maintaining accuracy.
- Strong judgement and the ability to handle confidential information with discretion.
- A proactive, collaborative and solutions-focused approach.
- Interest in Talent Management, Professional Development and Private Equity.
- Experience in an Executive Assistant, Office Coordinator or similar operational role within a professional services environment.
- Comfortable building relationships across all levels of an organization.
Nice to Have
- University degree.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, particularly Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint and Word.
- Experience working with staffing or workforce planning systems.
Working Model
- This role follows a hybrid working model, requiring in-office presence at least 2 days per week.
