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Who You'll Work With:
You will join our Lisbon (Portugal) office and work with our global Capabilities and Insights (C&I) team. You’ll be part of our global knowledge network, which includes more than 1,800 knowledge professionals who work alongside our consultants and clients to generate distinctive insights and proprietary knowledge.
You will join the People and Organizational Performance (POP) C&I, which is a part of global Research and Development fabric for the practice and plays a pivotal role in developing, codifying, sanitizing, and managing research backed new knowledge that includes several proprietary documents, assets and proposals that form the backbone of McKinsey's knowledge management. You will join this team, which works in a very integrated way with other parts of the practice such as analytics and solutions. Commensurate with the experience and performance, the role promises optimal mix of research along with integrated servicing of the clients as a part of our client service teams
McKinsey’s People and Organizational performance practice is a trusted adviser to the world’s leading businesses, governments, and institutions on their most important organizational opportunities and challenges. Our global network of over 800 consultants and experts, and our proprietary data and analytics, help our clients across a broad range of topics, including culture & change, organizational design, leadership & learning, talent, merger management, digital-analytics org, and CEO & board excellence.
What You'll Do:
You will leverage a solid understanding of trends, issues, and concepts to efficiently respond to complex research questions by delivering synthesized, actionable facts and insights to our consulting teams and clients.
You will also have the opportunity to work alongside senior knowledge professionals on larger client projects and internal knowledge initiatives. By collecting and analyzing data and information found in databases and/or other primary and secondary research tools, you will assemble a fact base, counsel consultants and clients on the scope of the business and economic trends surrounding the issue, and provide insights and analysis for solving client problems at hand.
Your day-to-day tasks may include identifying the key issues for the problem at hand and determining the most appropriate solution while effectively balancing quality, availability, timeliness, and cost factors. You’ll likely perform a variety of analyses such as benchmarking, trend identification, opportunity scanning, etc., in order to add value to problem-solving discussions, and you’ll provide synthesis, insight and client implications within tight deadlines via end products in the form of PowerPoint charts, written memos, models and framework. In time, you will also participate in, and eventually lead, internal knowledge development and capability-building initiatives and you’ll use advanced analytics tools to prepare and analyze large datasets to distill insights.
Qualifications:
- Advanced degree - MBA or PhD in relevant field such as organizational behaviour, industrial psychology, behavioral economics, human resources, sociology or equivalent
- 1+ years of relevant industry, research, consulting, or analytics experience in the relevant domain
- Good perspective on organizational trends - including how best in class companies are leading their thinking on Org design, culture, talent, leadership along with the new ways of working amid the new normal
- Preference for a good understanding of statistical and predictive modeling concepts, machine-learning approaches, clustering and classification techniques, and recommendation and optimization algorithms
- General business awareness
- Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills; experience working with a large volume of data with ability to solve performance issues
- Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment, and to work effectively with people at all levels in an organization
- Ability to deliver outputs independently on tight timelines
- Problem solving capability, inquisitive attitude that is ready to push the thinking, ask right questions
- Excellent communication and presentation skills (fluency in English) with an ability to visualize and report insights creatively in variety of formats to various stakeholders