McKinsey & Company
Associate
To help our clients make distinctive, lasting, and substantial improvements in their performance
Consulting and Professional Services
Full-time
Office | Sydney, NSW, Australia
Visa sponsorship · No
Senior · A role for someone with advanced knowledge and skills. May involve mentoring, leading others or specialisation. Typically at least 5 years of experience.
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Why McKinsey & Company
McKinsey & Company is a global management consulting firm. We are the trusted advisor to the world's leading businesses, governments, and institutions.
We work with leading organizations across the private, public and social sectors. Our scale, scope, and knowledge allow us to address problems that no one else can. We have deep functional and industry expertise as well as breadth of geographical reach. We are passionate about taking on immense challenges that matter to our clients and, often, to the world.
We work with our clients as we do with our colleagues. We build their capabilities and leadership skills at every level and every opportunity. We do this to help build internal support, get to real issues, and reach practical recommendations. We bring out the capabilities of clients to fully participate in the process and lead the ongoing work.
About the role
WHO YOU'LL WORK WITH 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. 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 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.
QUALIFICATIONS
- 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
What you'll be responsible for
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Strategic Planning and Roadmap Development
Develop strategic plans and roadmaps to support clients' long-term goals
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Client/Investor Relationship Management
Build and maintain strong relationships with clients and investors, providing ongoing support throughout the transaction lifecycle
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Project Management
Develop project plans, track progress against milestones, and ensure that projects are completed on time and within budget
Skills you'll need
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Prioritization
Compares and ranks the relative importance &/or urgency of different tasks to identify the best order of actions
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Flexibility
Copes with changes and ambiguity in varying circumstances and can adapt behaviour effectively
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Critical thinking
Identifies and synthesizes patterns and trends amongst various sources of information to reach a meaningful conclusion, perspective or insight
Meet the team
