Implementation Facilitator, Product Development and Procurement

Do you want to work on complex and pressing challenges The kind that brings together curious, ambitious, and determined leaders who strive to become better every day If this sounds like you, you've come to the right place. You will work directly with client leaders and front-line operators on topics where implementation issues are important and where driving change is critical to the successful realization of goals. You will spend about 80% of your time working at client locations as part of consulting teams, helping solve complex client problems in product development and procurement domains. This work includes, but is not limited to, end-to-end margin transformation, product and organization-level EBITDA improvement, rationalizing product design based on competitive teardown analysis and customer insights, building and implementing sourcing strategies, estimating product should cost based on clean sheet costing, working on new product development reducing time, cost, and quality attributes, carrying out surveys to understand improvement aspects of the organization, design to cost, design to value, global sourcing, commodity strategy, cost structure, clean sheet, supplier development, negotiation, cost-saving ideas, spend analysis, procurement transformation, and more. About 20% of your time will be spent on developing a cutting-edge knowledge base related to the Product Development and Procurement (PDP) domain. You will also support the development and maintenance of various practice knowledge initiatives by building McKinsey's knowledge on PDP-related topics. You will build your expertise in PDP across advanced industries including automotive, consumer electronics, electric vehicles & batteries, semiconductors, oil & gas, and more. You will be mentored by implementation experts with decades of industry experience and supported with a world-class implementation toolkit and the best of McKinsey's tools and assets. You will be based in one of our India offices - Bengaluru, Gurugram, Kolkata, or Mumbai - as a part of McKinsey Implementation in the Operations practice. McKinsey Implementation provides continuous support to clients to ensure they achieve and sustain the full benefits of recommended changes. Our Operations practice helps clients solve complex operational challenges. Your qualifications and skills should include 1+ years of experience in product development, product cost optimization, strategic sourcing/purchasing, supplier development, spend analysis, commodity strategy, cost reduction, negotiations, etc. Preferred industries are automotive, semiconductors, and consumer electronics. A bachelor's degree in the engineering domain is required, along with strong analytical and problem-solving skills, a strong desire to learn and develop, strong people skills, openness to extensive travel to client sites, and the ability to communicate complex ideas effectively in English.,