Associate - Manufacturing & Supply Chain, McKinsey Implementation - McKinsey : Job Details

You'll be working with McKinsey Implementation (MI) - a rapidly growing capability for our firm - in one of our offices in North America.

Our implementation experts help organizations accelerate sustainable and inclusive growth. 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.

As a member of MI, you'll work collaboratively with our client project teams solving their toughest problems, providing end-to-end support to ensure the clients are able to deliver and sustain the full benefits of McKinsey's recommended change in their business. 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.

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 help clients overcome typical supply chain challenges and integrate solutions across their organization, supplementing client experience through targeted research programs focused on what really drives their supply chain performance.

* Bachelor's degree and/or master's degree

* 8+ years of experience in supply chain management e.g., design and implementation of logistics strategy, network design and optimization, transportation, warehouse design and optimization, supply chain planning and management processes, supply chain modeling and optimization

* Strong interest and passion for coaching or mentoring clients

* Proven experience in applying well-developed problem-solving skills (quantitative, conceptual, analytical)

* 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%