Manager - Professional Development
McKinsey & Company · Paris, France · 2h ago
ManagerOn-siteStrategy & Management Consulting
You will lead consultant staffing and career development at McKinsey Paris, partnering with leaders and coaching our talent team to foster exceptional people.
Who you'll work with
You are someone who thrives in a high-performance environment, bringing a growth mindset and entrepreneurial spirit to tackle meaningful challenges that have a real impact.
In return for your drive, determination, and curiosity, we’ll provide the resources, mentorship, and opportunities to help you quickly broaden your expertise, grow into a well-rounded professional, and contribute to work that truly makes a difference.
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. Plus, you’ll have the opportunity to learn from exceptional colleagues with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
- Exceptional 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 will play a central role in supporting the development, growth, and career progression of our consultants at McKinsey.
You will also be accountable for upholding Professional Development (PD) processes and rules across the PD team, ensuring consistency, clarity, and high-quality execution in the team’s ways of working and coaching the team. Working with Partners and Associate Partners across 2 to 3 industry sectors, you will combine talent advisory, staffing, coaching, and people development to help match the right consultants to the right opportunities. In doing so, you will directly contribute to two priorities at the heart of our firm: delivering outstanding client impact and developing exceptional people.
You will work closely with leadership to understand business priorities, anticipate talent needs, and shape thoughtful staffing and development recommendations. You will act as a trusted thought partner to senior stakeholders, bringing together individual aspirations, client needs, staffing constraints, and broader office priorities to support sound decisions and constructive trade-offs.
Together with the France PD team, you will support consultants throughout key moments of their career journey. You will stay close to their development, progression, availability, and broader people topics; conduct regular check-ins; coordinate organization of semi-annual review committees; follow up on feedback and evaluation inputs; and provide timely, constructive guidance to help them understand their strengths, development priorities, and next steps.
Within the PD team, together with the PD Director, you will be expected to set clear priorities, create an inclusive and trust-based team environment, coach and develop team members, reinforce mutual accountability, and help the team deliver high-quality outcomes across staffing, development, and people processes.
Your work combines strong relationship-building with business sense, analytical rigor, and sound judgment. You will build trust with the team, consultants and leaders while developing a nuanced understanding of individual aspirations, experiences, strengths, development needs, and personal context. You will also help continuously improve our people processes through structured analysis, clear problem solving, and active participation in team and office priorities and initiatives.
You will be based in the Paris office as part of our Staffing & Professional Development team and will report to the Director of People for the France Office.
Your background
- Master’s degree or equivalent
- 8+ years of experience in professional services, talent management, HR, people development, staffing, recruiting, or another role combining stakeholder management, analytical problem solving, and people impact
- Talent advisory and people development: genuine passion for people development, coaching, and apprenticeship, with the ability to understand individual career goals and translate them into concrete staffing, development, and growth opportunities
- Stakeholder leadership and influence: ability to build trusted relationships across levels, listen with empathy, communicate with clarity, and constructively challenge, offer new ideas and work collaboratively.
- Analytical problem solving and judgment: strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to gather and interpret data, identify patterns, synthesize trade-offs, and use facts and judgment to inform thoughtful talent and staffing decisions
- Project and process leadership: excellent organizational and project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities, bring structure to complex situations, and drive high-quality outcomes in a fast-paced environment
- Team leadership and apprenticeship: for the PD Manager scope, demonstrated ability to manage, coach, and develop a team of 4 people, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, and reinforce individual and collective accountability
- Ownership, judgment and values: high level of drive, initiative, ownership, confidentiality, and sound judgment; comfort navigating ambiguity, making thoughtful trade-offs, and contributing to a trust-based and inclusive environment
- Ability to work in-person in office
- Communication and synthesis: strong written and oral communication skills in French and English, with the ability to turn complex information into clear storylines, practical recommendations, and senior-ready messages