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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, which includes medical, dental, mental health, and vision coverage for you, your spouse/partner, and children. Your Impact You will spend a significant part of your time solving complex client problems in the Supply Chain domain, specializing in digital Supply Chain Planning supported by SCM Connections. You will work in teams to collaborate with our clients to define new organizational structures, roles and processes across global organizations. This includes gathering and analyzing information, formulating, and testing hypotheses, and developing recommendations for presentation to client management. You will make a meaningful, hands-on contribution to the analysis, design, and implementation of business performance approaches, developing tailor-made solutions and working closely with clients to ensure positive impact and sustainable results. In this exciting collaborative culture, you will not only have the opportunity to work directly with clients, you will also share your expertise and insights with colleagues globally, thereby expanding our knowledge and refining our approaches in the Manufacturing & Supply Chain field. In addition to client-facing responsibilities, you will also help to configure and deploy supply chain planning systems (e.g., O9, Kinaxis, SAP IBP, etc.) at various clients and facilitate the data integration of clients’ legacy systems and advanced planning solution. You will define and coordinate the execution of user acceptance testing (UAT) and created tailored, comprehensive training documentation to assist with change management. Additionally, you will help to enhance the collective firm knowledge with regards to supply chain technology, contributing to our knowledge base and helping to create new offerings to be deployed at clients. Projects may include leading the deployment of supply chain planning solutions at clients, assisting clients with selection of technology for supply chain planning, stochastic simulation of inventory levels with the objective of creating a robust inventory policy, and conducting diagnostics on supply chain health and performance for our clients. You will use your expertise to drive change in system and help guide clients on their digital supply chain journeys, as well as improvements to the overall execution of the supply chain. You will join one of our McKinsey Gurugram/Chennai offices as a part of the Manufacturing and Supply Chain team (MSC-X), the analytics wing of McKinsey & Company's Operations practice, that focuses on deeply tech-enabling our client service. MSC-X comprises an ecosystem of customizable, web-based digital tools that turbocharge McKinsey diagnostics while serving as a platform on which clients can digitize their plants and production environments to improve performance. Our open-source technology allows groups to capitalize on existing modules and use pre-built benchmarking infrastructure. You will work directly with our clients and McKinsey colleagues to deploy our digital capabilities and ensure we bring tangible, lasting impact to clients. Our client project teams work with major global organizations across multiple industries to solve their most challenging problems. In most cases, this means working on site, directly with client engineering groups. Additionally, you will work with internal product development teams to ensure we optimize our capabilities and constantly innovate. Your Qualifications and Skills Post-graduate degree in operations management, statistics, or industrial engineering, with a strong quantitative underpinning 8+ years’ experience in a client-facing consulting role configuring and deploying supply chain planning systems such as O9, SAP IBP, Kinaxis, Blue Yonder, E2Open, OMP, Anaplan, etc. Good understanding of data requirements for advanced planning systems and the technical requirements for data integration and optimization Experience in leading a technical team on solution delivery Experience with agile and scrum methodologies and/or familiarities with common ERP systems (e.g., SAP) preferred Statistical, optimization and simulation skills through software tools and packages like R, SAS, CPLEX or similar is desirable Knowledge and training in databases (SQL Server, MySQL) and skills one or more languages like SQL, MDX, T-SQL or similar is desirable Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment and work effectively with people at all levels in an organization Skills to communicate complex ideas effectively Demonstrated aptitude for analytics Comfortable with extensive travel, up to 80% Show more Show less
