Associate - Deal Team
Bain Capital ranks among the world’s leading private investment firms, with around USD 225 billion in assets. Its European Private Equity team drives transformational change across four core industry groups: Healthcare, Technology, Business Services, and Industrials. Based in London, the Associate takes ownership of deal workstreams and grows into an investor.
About Bain Capital
Bain Capital was founded in 1984 as a private partnership. Four decades later, the firm employs around two thousand people in 24 offices on four continents and invests on behalf of pension funds, insurers, endowments, foundations, and family offices. Alongside private equity, its platform spans growth and venture, capital solutions, credit, and real assets. Throughout, the aim is to create lasting impact for investors, teams, businesses, and the communities in which the firm operates.
Bain Capital partners differently to help people and companies embrace possibility and realize potential. Since its founding, the firm has fostered a culture of innovation, entrepreneurialism, and agility, empowering its people to define and own their career trajectories. Today, its partnership approach enables Bain Capital to pursue strategic growth, build enduring relationships with a robust external network, and collaborate across its integrated platform to connect the deep and diverse expertise that unlocks breakthrough insights.
People are the heart of Bain Capital’s advantage. Colleagues at all levels have a seat at the table as they tackle business challenges with a principal investor mindset. By asking incisive questions, respectfully challenging one another, and remaining intellectually agile, they work together to achieve exceptional outcomes.
Bain Capital Private Equity
Bain Capital Private Equity pioneered the value-added investment approach. It brings extensive experience and resources to help management teams assess and capitalize on business opportunities. Its global industry vertical teams work together to diligence local and multinational companies and to identify investments where Bain Capital has differential insights and a unique ability to drive transformational change. Since 1984, Bain Capital Private Equity has developed in-depth knowledge, experience, and robust networks through more than 1,000 primary and add-on investments across several core industry groups: Healthcare, Technology, Business Services, and Industrials.
Requirements*
- From 2 years at a top-tier consulting firm, investment bank, or private capital firm
- Hands-on background in investment analysis, due diligence, M&A, or financing
- Strong analytical and financial modeling skills, with sound commercial judgment
- Enthusiastic interest in private equity and investing in businesses
- Ability to synthesize complex analyses into compelling conclusions
- Bachelor’s degree from a highly regarded university
- Fluent in both Dutch and English, written and verbal
- Willing to relocate to London
Research shows that while male candidates feel confident enough to apply when they meet about 60% of the requirements, female candidates only apply when they tick every box. So if this role has your name on it, but you’re not sure about the criteria, we still want to hear from you.
Associate - Deal Team
Bain Capital hires a class of Associates into its Deal Team every year. It is currently looking for a Dutch-speaking Associate to join the 2027 class, sitting within the European Private Equity team in the London office.
Bain Capital offers an Associate program designed to build future investors, through a model that blends on-the-job training with a structured development journey. The firm hires with a long-term view, investing in future leaders and supporting their growth and progression over time.
The successful candidate will play a key role in the deal process, across sourcing, diligence, and portfolio management. As an Associate, they will gain experience across a breadth of industries and geographies, working hands-on alongside experienced investors on early-stage prospects, live deals, and portfolio companies. Formal training supports this development throughout, from immersive onboarding to ongoing diligence and modeling workshops.
Responsibilities
As an investor, the Associate’s role will be to develop their own insights and form views on investment opportunities, and to work with management teams to drive value creation across the portfolio. Specific responsibilities include:
- Contribute to sourcing by screening and researching new investment opportunities across the verticals
- Conduct market, commercial, and competitive analysis to form a view on business quality
- Build and maintain financial models to evaluate potential investments
- Take ownership of specific due diligence workstreams, working with management teams and third-party advisers
- Prepare investment committee materials setting out the opportunity, key risks, and recommendation
- Support execution through to signing, with significant deal responsibility and direct exposure to senior members of the team
- Work with portfolio companies and management teams to deliver value creation
The ideal candidate has spent the past few years analyzing companies at a top-tier management consulting firm, investment bank, or private capital firm, and has a genuine fascination with how businesses grow. At Bain Capital, that analytical work turns into investment views that carry real weight. The Associate is driven by intellectual curiosity and a high degree of ownership, and thrives in a fast-paced environment that relies on close collaboration. Significant deal responsibility from the first year, combined with a program built to develop investors for the long term: for the right candidate, this is the first step toward becoming one of Bain Capital’s future leaders.
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