Associate Partner - Life Sciences
McKinsey & Company · Osaka, Japan +1 · 4d ago
Director & ExecutiveOn-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 leverage your successful track record of high-impact client service to strengthen and expand our impact through projects and client development, usually in a particular industry or functional practice.
You will consult existing client service teams as well as top managers at client organizations, and with your sound expertise you’ll provide leadership and direction. Within the firm, you’ll be an entrepreneur who reinvents McKinsey and opens new opportunities for client impact. You’ll be a mentor and an advisor to developing consultants.
Additionally, as a member of McKinsey’s global network, you will integrate insights from internal and external specialists as well as develop world-class knowledge. You will be an important source of intellectual insight on a client project, framing business problems in a way that the team can then execute to drive impact and client value.
You will be responsible for identifying and developing new client opportunities to advise companies on transformational change and capability building, leading confirmed project teams on day-to-day problem solving, team management, and client management, and bringing in deep functional knowledge, expertise, and proprietary tools to every client situation.
You’ll manage and develop strategic client relationships while ensuring the highest quality client work and be an inspiring leader who commits time to developing new consulting staff.
Your background
- Advanced degree required, preferably in biological and biomedical sciences
- 8+ years of work experience after graduate school, with a distinctive record of professional achievement and impact
- Has deep functional or sector knowledge as well as deep functional expertise in R&D, Operations, etc.
- Seasoned leader/director with strong entrepreneurial drive with a proven track record of developing new client relationships and generating business development opportunities that leads to successful client engagements
- Experience leading cross-functional teams, and in-depth knowledge/defined involvement in helping frame, design and execute solutions for challenging business situations
- Team-orientation and collaborative approach; outstanding listening skills and the ability to manage through influence
- Exceptional intellectual and analytical curiosity, a creative visionary who can manage innovation
- Sophisticated executive demeanor, comfortable functioning at the highest levels of client organizations; excellent presentation skills, including strong verbal and writing capabilities
- Consulting background is nice to have, but not required
- Native level language skills in Japanese with the ability to engage senior stakeholders in complex projects in Japanese