McKinsey & Company
WHO YOU'LL WORK WITH
You will be working with McKinsey’s Operations practice in Europe.
Our Operations practice assists our clients in solving complex operational challenges. Blending strategic thinking with hands-on practicality, our teams of consultants and experts work to develop and implement operational strategies that solve our clients’ most critical problems. We help our clients tackle challenges in lean manufacturing, lean services, change transformations, product development, purchasing, and supply chain management. Our teams combine the comprehensive business understanding that underpins all McKinsey disciplines with practical operations expertise in a wide range of industries worldwide.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
You will play an active role in problem solving for clients including identifying issues, forming hypotheses, designing and conducting analyses, and synthesizing conclusions into recommendations.
As part of our two-year Operations Excellence Program (OEP), you will work on client engagements in the same way as any other McKinsey consultant. You will gain leading-edge operations and consultancy skills, primarily through on-the-job coaching, which will be complemented by the OEP’s structured capability-building program.
We view the OEP position as the start of a rewarding, challenging and highly flexible career with McKinsey and the Operations practice. During your first few years with the firm, you will serve as a junior practice specialist on multiple client engagements and work with a number of colleagues and clients in a range of industry and operations service lines. You will acquire the necessary knowledge and expertise to help companies achieve excellence in their operations.
Along with other members of the OEP community, you will dedicate many days to functional training and knowledge development under the leadership of our operations experts. You will follow a curriculum based on operations excellence themes and will receive advanced training in one of five specific areas of operations: manufacturing, product development, purchasing, service operations, or supply chain management.
Upon completion of the program, successful consultants will join our global group of leading experts in operational excellence. We already have OEP graduates working at all levels of the firm from associate to partner.
Your application should be in English and include your CV and your transcripts (high school, university, etc.), indicating all relevant grades.#LI-MP
To be considered for our OEP, you should:
- Have a university degree, with a technical or business specialization
- Have gained initial professional experience (i.e. via an internship) in an area of operations such as manufacturing, procurement, product development, service operations, or supply chain management
- Demonstrate outstanding analytical and conceptual skills
- Thrive when working both in a team and alone
- Be able to communicate complex ideas effectively, both verbally and in writing, in English and the local language