Associate - McKinsey Implementation

McKinsey & Company


Date: 5 hours ago
City: Sydney, New South Wales
Contract type: Full time
Who You'll Work With

Driving lasting impact and building long-term capabilities with our clients is not easy work. You are the kind of person who thrives in a high performance/high reward culture - doing hard things, picking yourself up when you stumble, and having the resilience to try another way forward.

In return for your drive, determination, and curiosity, we'll provide the resources, mentorship, and opportunities you need to become a stronger leader faster than you ever thought possible. Your colleagues—at all levels—will invest deeply in your development, just as much as they invest in delivering exceptional results for clients. Every day, you'll receive apprenticeship, coaching, and exposure that will accelerate your growth in ways you won’t find anywhere else.

When you join us, you will have:

  • Continuous learning: Our learning and apprenticeship culture, backed by structured programs, is all about helping you grow while creating an environment where feedback is clear, actionable, and focused on your development. The real magic happens when you take the input from others to heart and embrace the fast-paced learning experience, owning your journey.
  • A voice that matters: From day one, we value your ideas and contributions. You’ll make a tangible impact by offering innovative ideas and practical solutions. We not only encourage diverse perspectives, but they are critical in driving us toward the best possible outcomes.
  • Global community: With colleagues across 65+ countries and over 100 different nationalities, our firm’s diversity fuels creativity and helps us come up with the best solutions for our clients. Plus, you’ll have the opportunity to learn from exceptional colleagues with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
  • World-class benefits: On top of a competitive salary (based on your location, experience, and skills), we provide a comprehensive benefits package to enable holistic well-being for you and your family.

Your Impact

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 over time.

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.

Learn more: https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/implementation/how-we-help-clients

You’ll be working with McKinsey Implementation (MI) in one of our offices in Australia or New Zealand. Our implementation experts help organizations in all sectors and functions accelerate and sustain execution their change management efforts.

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. 

As an MI colleague within McKinsey, 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.

Your Qualifications and Skills

  • Bachelor's degree and/or master's degree
  • 8+ years of work experience in one of the following industries: oil & gas, engineering, mining, energy, financial services, banking, insurance, public sector
  • Proven experience in applying well-developed problem-solving skills (quantitative, conceptual, analytical)
  • Demonstrated experience in successfully leading a transformational/capability building activity
  • Comfort with ambiguous, ever-changing situations 
  • Ability to work collaboratively in a team and create an inclusive environment with people at all levels of an organization
  • Strong interest and passion for coaching or mentoring clients
  • Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, in English
  • Willingness to travel 
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