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Bain & Company | Gen AI | Strategy Consulting | Retail | VIT Vellore - Data Science

About

I thrive on solving complex problems, Where traditional approaches or "maximum human capacity utilization" leave me unexcited. In a world where AI can execute faster and smarter than ever, why not let it be the hands and legs, while we remain the brains driving innovation? At Bain & Co., I specialize in integrating GenAI and cutting-edge technologies to reduce human effort, enhance accuracy, and accelerate processes. My expertise spans data analytics, business intelligence tools, and developing scalable solutions tailored to unique business challenges. Solving intricate business problems is not just my profession - it’s my passion. I’m deeply intrigued by the ever-evolving world of technology and leverage AI to streamline tasks, optimize workflows, and deliver impactful insights. In my free time, I explore the stock markets, combining indicators with AI to create systems that minimize error and maximize efficiency. Let’s connect and explore the future of technology, problem-solving, and innovation. 📧 Reach me at: hardikjains.hj@gmail.com

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude code

claude

gemini

langgraph

ChatGPT

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Work experience

Associate at Bain & Company, Apr 2026 - Present · 6 mos, Advanced Retail Buying, Merchant Accelerator and Intelligent cost management –Two leading US grocery majors) engaged Bain post-merger to capture ~$100–140M run-rate synergies across merchandising and procurement (vs. original ~$50–70M deal model), including ~$30–50M from Trade Funds and ~$20–30M from Our Brands; case is live since Jan'26 with BCN supporting Bain across Market and Trade Funds workstreams to enable enterprise-wide vendor negotiations >Led a 3-member team in Bangalore with full ownership of Merchant Accelerator delivery and stakeholder engagement across 4 banners; served as primary BCN POC to the case team for the Market workstream, also contributing to Trade Funds and generating sharp commercial insights across vendor, brand, and category levers that directly fed ARB negotiation prep >Pioneered first-of-its-kind data harmonization techniques leveraging Python, Alteryx, Claude, and GenAI – dramatically reducing manual mapping effort from ~2.5 weeks to ~2 days (~85% reduction) and accelerating the case team's path to a single source of truth across the enterprise >Optimized complex analytical workflows by ~70% (from 10–12+ hours to a fraction of the run-time) through strong technical depth and innovative GenAI-led approaches; received praise from case leadership for clarity, innovation, and delivery excellence, and enabled smooth ramp-up of multiple interns and analysts through detailed knowledge transfer –Enabled the case team to feed clean, harmonized market data into the Merchant Accelerator, directly supporting ARB negotiation prep and offer unpacking for priority categories –Established reusable Python–Alteryx–GenAI patterns for cross-entity data harmonization that will serve as a template for Bain's future ARB and post-merger integration cases in Retail, significantly reducing turnaround time and manual effort

Senior Analyst at Bain & Company, Apr 2025 - Mar 2026 · 1 yr, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Gen AI Engineering, Retail and Restaurants –Bain Restaurant Practice published a Bain-wide LSR POV covering the $1.0T global / ~$370B US Top 500 LSR market across the Top 30 global LSR brands and 6 strategic themes (craveability, value, experience, channels, marketing, footprint) – designed as a foundational "book" from which partners craft client pitches, CDs, and proposals; BCN partnered with Bain leadership end-to-end to shape, build, and deliver the POV >Led a 2-member BCN team as direct thought partner to the Bain Practice Senior Manager – reverse-engineered the entire POV through highly open-ended, first-principles problem-solving: defined storyline, structured the consumer survey, framed questions, and pioneered the introduction of GLP-1 as a new POV theme capturing one of the fastest-emerging consumer behavior shifts in US restaurants >Drove all key analyses leveraging 4+ proprietary data sources (Pyxis, Technomic, Datassential, and a custom consumer survey covering all top US LSR brands) and built first-of-its-kind automated, brand-specific survey packs – a reusable model generating full diagnostics (NPS, capabilities, GLP-1 exposure, brand experience metrics) for any focus brand and peer set, with automated data refresh keeping the POV current –POV has been instrumental in winning 4 high-profile Bain client engagements – serving as the core pitch asset partners use to position Bain's restaurant expertise in CDs and proposals –Opened the doors for BCN's restaurants practice – one of the first major restaurants IPs ever delivered by BCN, building deep in-house expertise across LSR, FSR, and broader segments; now part of the core BCN Restaurants team that is being built on the back of this work

Analyst at Bain & Company, Jul 2024 - Apr 2025 · 10 mos, Gurugram, Haryana, India, Advanced analytics, Visualisation –One of the biggest southeast Asian bank engaged Bain on a 9-month large-scale Wealth Management Transformation to modernize advisor enablement for thousands of Relationship Managers managing affluent and HNW clients; BCN partnered with Bain's AIS team to build the Advisor Digital Suite (TWS Digital, Knowledge Assistant) – GenAI-powered tools unlocking fragmented data for proactive client advisory across 3 product domains – wealth, insurance, and credit cards >Sole BCN contributor on a high-visibility cross-entity Bain APAC engagement – worked directly with Bain AIS team, case team, and Bangkok Bank stakeholders; independently led 2+ workstreams end-to-end with no BCN support layer, earning repeated shout-outs from both Bain case team and AIS team for analytical depth and ability to operate independently >Drove business logic and prompt engineering for the GenAI chatbot – designed the question-answering taxonomy, structured product knowledge base ingestion, and engineered prompts grounded in compliant, contextually relevant outputs across all 3 product domains; chatbot delivered ~50% faster response processing and >90% PII risk mitigation for multilingual RM queries –Advisor Digital Suite saved ~3,800+ annual hours for RMs and significantly enhanced advisor productivity and digital wealth experience – built deep hands-on expertise in GenAI productionization (prompt engineering, RAG, semantic search, PII compliance) on an Azure / GPT-4 stack, with strong pilot feedback positioning Bangkok Bank for full-scale rollout –Foundational GenAI productionization experience for BCN – directly informing how BCN supports future Bain AIS engagements across APAC and beyond, with deep in-house expertise built in deploying enterprise-grade chatbots

Fellowship at Konma, May 2022 - Dec 2022 · 8 mos, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, Completed a fellowship in decentralization and blockchain technology at Konma, an organization driving innovation in decentralized ecosystems. Contributed to the design and implementation of smart contracts and decentralized applications (dApps) for real-world use cases. Conducted in-depth research on blockchain protocols and decentralized governance models, shaping strategic project decisions. Led a team of fellows in conceptualizing and presenting blockchain solutions to address industry challenges, showcasing strong leadership and technical expertise.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science spec. in Data science, Vellore Institute of Technology

High School, Narayana Institute