Junior Specialist - Procurement

McKinsey & Company, Inc.; São Paulo; Presencial; BRL 60.000 - 100.000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

Join a forward-thinking firm as a consultant in São Paulo, where you'll tackle complex operational challenges. You'll participate in the Operations Excellence Program, gaining hands-on experience while working alongside industry experts. This role offers the chance to develop your analytical and problem-solving skills, influence client strategies, and drive transformational change across diverse sectors. With a focus on sustainability and innovation, you'll be at the forefront of operational excellence, helping organizations achieve their goals. This is an exciting opportunity to grow your career in a dynamic environment.

Qualificações

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or business is ideal; advanced degrees preferred.
• Professional experience in industry or consulting environments is required.

Responsabilidades

• Active role in problem solving for clients, including identifying issues and conducting analyses.
• Engage with clients to create new strategies across various projects.

Conhecimentos

Analytical Skills

Problem Solving

Communication Skills

Initiative

Creativity

Formação académica

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Business

Master's or other advanced degree

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Who You'll Work With

You’ll be working with McKinsey Operations in our São Paulo office.

Our Operations practice assists our clients in solving complex operational challenges in Latin America. 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.

Product Development & Procurement is a rapidly growing service line that helps organizations unlock growth through product and cost transformations, with an emphasis on sustainability, customer experience, and the latest digital and analytical solutions.

In addition, you will work in cooperation with our worldwide network of consultants to shape McKinsey's thinking in this area, continuously developing your own knowledge, as well as that of the firm.

Your impact within our firm

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 consulting skills primarily through on-the-job coaching which will be complemented by the OEP’s structured capability-building program. During this program, you will serve as a junior 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 specific areas of operations.

Additionally, you will engage with our clients to create new strategies across a wide platform of projects, from automation to mine optimization to predictive maintenance and more. You will not only expand our current analytics capabilities but will help architect new strategies and applications within a dynamic innovative organization.

Upon successful completion of the program, you 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 qualifications and skills

• Bachelor's degree ideally in engineering or business; master's or other advanced degree preferred
• Professional work experience in industry or consulting environments
• Experience in procurement and/or supply management of services, contracts and categories and/or product development in the basic materials, consumer packaged goods, chemicals, financial services, healthcare, high-tech, oil & gas and energy industries
• Passionate about operational excellence and driving transformational change in organizations
• Outstanding analytical and conceptual skills
• Initiative and creativity, working well both on your own as well as in a team
• Ability to influence others through your written or verbal communication in both the local language and in English