Nitya Bahl

Strategy and operations leader with 5+ years driving large-scale transformations across healthcare and financial services, leveraging deep financial acumen and analytical rigor to deliver measurable impact. Proven ability to translate complex data into leadership-ready insights, championing strategic alignment and project management in fast-paced, ambiguous environments. Expertise in developing robust business cases and optimizing processes to achieve significant cost savings and enhance business performance.

Consultant at Bain & Company (2025-01 – Present)

Leading large-scale transformations and strategic initiatives in healthcare and financial services

• Spearheaded enterprise org design and governance redesign for an 80k+ employee US healthcare system, defining decision rights, roles, and forums to enable faster clinical and strategic decision-making across an integrated care delivery model
• Designed and implemented a Strategy Realization Office for a major U.S. insurer's claims function, establishing governance, org structure, and intake/prioritization processes to accelerate strategic initiatives
• Drove Gen AI transformation from strategy to MVP deployment, prioritizing key use cases and delivering ~$9M value through productivity and sales impact
• Led a $400M+ SG&A cost transformation for a major device insurance provider; designed value-tracking and re-forecasting frameworks that identified ongoing savings and improved leadership visibility into growth levers
• Redesigned indirect procurement processes and streamlined sourcing and contracting, reducing vendor base and delivering $18M+ in savings through contractor rationalization and rate renegotiations
• Developed retail buying strategy for a major U.S. retailer by analyzing category performance across top national vendors and curating negotiation strategies for cereal and frozen meals categories, driving up to 5% cost savings per category
• Identified capability gaps in retailer operations and designed a digital toolkit to track vendor and category performance; trained buyers on missing supplier management capabilities including integration of digital tools into buyer operations

MBA Intern - R&D Strategy & Operations → Senior Business Associate at Amgen (2024-03 – 2025-01)

Drove launch of new Business Analytics capability and strategic operations initiatives

• Drove launch of a new Business Analytics capability within Amgen's R&D Strategy & Operations function, automating key processes, tracking value realization of key projects and enabling data-driven decision-making at the enterprise level
• Partnered with cross-functional leaders as an internal consultant to evaluate current-state, design workforce strategies, and build future-state roadmaps, equipping functions with compelling business cases for leadership approval and driving multi-$M savings
• Designed and scaled the Geo-Capabilities Mapping platform across 8 therapeutic areas, accelerating Amgen's R&D geo-footprint strategy development by 50% and equipping executives with board-level, data-driven insights for global investment decisions
• Built $20B+ financial and capacity models to drive asset expansion and strategic investment decisions across therapeutic areas

Research Associate → Research Analyst at Boston Consulting Group (2019-07 – 2022-07)

Conducted strategy research and led multiple engagements across diverse industries; promoted fast track in 18 months as top 5 national performer

• Cultivated client relationships to generate $100K+ annual revenue for DRS; led 15+ engagements and delivered scalable analytics playbooks adopted by ~15 case teams, enabling repeat client growth
• Collaborated with 4 global DRS hubs to publish 'Covid-19 Public Sector Restart Strategy', presented to the Mayor of US city for usage in its regional guidelines - impacting ~3M population; achieved Q3 2020 Knowledge Driver award firmwide
• Designed and delivered Covid-19 vaccination rollout playbooks, managing end-to-end execution and commercialization of internal IP, which were adopted by 4 clients within a month
• Analyzed tourist preference survey data to identify 5 consumer personas and shape marketing plans for 12 Middle Eastern cities; led 7 cross-functional teammates across design, travel, and org design to build a $20Bn+ targeted tourism destination strategy
• Developed product on ESG Thematic analysis in collaboration with Knowledge Business Director; product deployed globally by ~20 BCG case teams, resulting in a new revenue stream for DRS and earning the DRS Content Titan Award

Master of Business Administration in Strategy & Operations – Cornell SC Johnson College of Business (2022 – 2024)

Bachelor of Technology in Electronics & Communication Engineering – Delhi Technological University (2015 – 2019)