Associate - McKinsey Transformation
McKinsey & Company · Osaka, Japan +1 · 4d ago
Entry level / GraduateOn-siteStrategy & Management Consulting
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, all while upholding our unwavering commitment to ethics and integrity. 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 to enable holistic well-being for you and your family.
What you'll do
You’ll join our Tokyo office as a part of the McKinsey Transformation (MT) team, serving clients in a project manager capacity, helping them in their turnaround and transformation efforts.
In this role, you will serve clients with the MT recipe of leveraging a holistic, execution-centric approach, providing interim management and transformation leadership capabilities and integrating the best of the firm. To achieve proven results, you will apply all levers, not only cost but also including revenue, strategy, organization and capital. Your client engagements will often span 12 to 24 months, and they will include three phases: independent diligence phase (6-8 weeks), bottom-up phase (6-8 weeks) and implementation (6-12+ months).
Specifically, you will operate as a project manager for one or more of these phases and you will manage a team of consultants focused on a T&T engagement. By combining a strategic perspective with disciplined implementation, you will lead this team to identify the strategic, operational, organizational and financial levers that will deliver rapid and dramatic client impact. Throughout this process, you will apply our results-oriented and proprietary MT solutions which are backed by tools, benchmarks and methodologies.
You will be responsible for delivering the right transformation process, integrating it across multiple workstreams, establishing the right mindset based on the latest performance and mobilizing the entire business to achieve and sustain value. You will also be responsible for ensuring that the team fully and properly leverages the capabilities of MT globally across both MT service lines.
More broadly, you will be responsible for the overall execution and success of these large-scale turnarounds and transformations. You will leverage a broad range of leadership and influencing styles, ranging from respected manager to motivational senior coach, and you will display high energy and resilience in ambiguous and fast-paced contexts. Occasionally, you will play an interim management role for the client as well.
MT is a unit of McKinsey, founded in 2010, that focuses exclusively on holistic transformations and corporate restructuring. We help clients drive rapid and dramatic performance improvement, plus provide a full suite of services to support companies facing liquidity issues or insolvency. To do so, we pair experienced professionals who are drawn from industry, private equity, and the restructuring ecosystem with our firm’s global network of industry and functional experts.
MT has two service lines: Turnarounds & Transformations (T&T) and Corporate Restructuring (CR). While the CR service line focuses on leading complex corporate restructuring programs at companies facing acute performance issues, liquidity concerns, potential covenant violations, and other issues that are destabilizing to the enterprise, the T&T service line focuses on driving rapid performance improvement for any business with significant performance improvement potential and an aspirational leader (ranging from distressed to “good to great” situations).
We are doers, and we work closely with clients to execute the steps needed to achieve extraordinary performance improvements. With ~150 dedicated MT consultants and ~250 generalist consultants among our global affiliates, we serve clients in more than 50 countries, many of which are among the largest impact situations for the firm globally.
Your background
- Advanced graduate degree or equivalent work experience
- Experience in managing teams of employees through an operational turnaround of significant step-change
- Track record of consistently delivering high-impact results to meet clients’ needs
- Expertise driving rapid and successful operational turnarounds and/or rapid growth programs across key strategic, revenue, cost and working capital levers
- Robust understanding of financial and operational levers (e.g. business plan modeling, working capital management, financial statement analysis)
- Experience in strategic consulting is strongly preferred
- Direct operating experience with P&L accountability is strongly preferred
- Excellent problem solving and stakeholder engagement skills
- Fluency in Japanese and English