Who You'll Work With
You will work in one of our North American offices with the McKinsey Implementation (MI) team – a rapidly growing capability for our firm.
MI provides continuous, distinctive support to our clients to ensure they achieve and sustain the full benefits of McKinsey’s recommended changes. Our implementation consultants are involved from strategy through execution with a disciplined eye on impact and sustainability at every stage of the project life cycle. We are developing a strong team and are looking for exceptional individuals to join us.
When you join McKinsey, you are joining a firm whose culture is distinctive and inclusive. We will accelerate your development as a leader to create positive, enduring change in the world.
For more information on McKinsey Implementation please visit: www.mckinsey.com/implementation
What You'll Do
You will work in small teams with colleagues and clients to build the strategies, capabilities, systems, and processes needed to deliver bottom line results and ensure those results are sustained.
Our work is about coaching others to achieve success in implementing new approaches and delivering lasting outcomes. You'll have the opportunity to manage projects and progress with minimal supervision, including tracking metrics, handling complex analyses, and preparing communications to report back to client and internal leadership. Additionally, you'll develop practical recommendations and contribute to team discussions on implications of analysis; identifying implementation challenges.
You will act as an expert in capital strategy and portfolio optimization, project development and value improvement, as well as project delivery and construction processes in capital-intensive industries to help clients improve returns and program performance across the entire portfolio with a rigorous, holistic methodology enabled by digital and agile techniques.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree and/or master's degree
- 6+ years of hands-on experience in a high-performance capital projects environment, specifically demonstrating leadership skills in performance improvement & change management
- Significant experience working on mega capital excellence construction projects, project management experience is preferred
- Field-based experience working on projects in one or more of the following industries: oil and gas, mining, energy, chemicals
- In-depth knowledge of continuous improvement programs, i.e., Lean/Six Sigma is desirable
- Demonstrated aptitude for analytics
- Strong interest and passion for coaching or mentoring clients
- Proven record of leadership in a work setting and/or through extracurricular activities
- Ability to work collaboratively in a team and create an inclusive environment with people at all levels of an organization
- Comfort with ambiguous, ever-changing situations
- Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, in English and local office language(s)
- Willingness to travel up to 80%
