Project Leader – AMS Automotive

Role and team

Responsibilities

• Lead Analysts and Associates to execute projects, plan work, and produce client-ready research, analysis, insights, and implications.
• Understand client needs, resolve issues, drive consensus, and recommend realistic, actionable solutions.
• Provide content thought leadership, build forecast-modeling logic, and potentially manage simple cases and IP projects independently.
• Ensure timely, high-quality research and analysis; manage client and team meetings and present findings.
• Serve as a point of contact for case teams, manage follow-ups, and share relevant intellectual property and existing knowledge.
• Apply research, analysis, Excel modeling, and business judgment when data is unavailable or unpublished.
• Allocate and review team work and conduct performance and feedback discussions.
• Support AMS IP work and benchmark global best practices for niche case scenarios.

Experience and qualifications

• Undergraduate candidates need 5–8 years of consulting, research, or analytics experience; postgraduate candidates need 3–6 years.
• Hands-on experience or familiarity with the AMS automotive sector is required.
• Candidates should be graduates or postgraduates from a top-tier institute, or have studied commerce, statistics, or analytics at a Tier 1 university.
• Candidates should currently work in strategy consulting or a research-oriented setting and be able to solve open-ended problems.
• Strong understanding of automotive OEMs and suppliers, battery chemistries and value chains, emissions regulations, and emerging industry trends.
• Proficiency in research, analysis, Excel modeling, independent secondary research, and storylining is expected.
• Ability to work with client contacts, including global Bain case teams, and openness to intermittent travel to Bain offices or client locations.

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