Careers in McKinsey Sustainability

The most common pathway to engage in sustainability work is to join our firm as a generalist consultant. As a generalist consultant—such as an analyst or associate—you will help our clients in the private, public, and social sectors solve pressing problems across a broad range of topics, including sustainability. You will also work with a range of firm experts from data scientists and researchers to software and app designers.

Joining as a generalist consultant allows you to build your consulting toolkit and familiarize yourself with a broad set of frameworks and methodologies. After one year with McKinsey, you can apply to our Sustainability Fellowship.

_{You may apply to the analyst role without prior professional experience. Please note, if you have sustainability experience, you may apply directly to one of our sustainability-focused roles.}

Sustainability Fellow

Our Sustainability Fellowship is a 12-month program for colleagues who have been with the firm at least one year. The mission of this program is to provide opportunities to work on as many sustainability-related projects as possible, while gaining exposure to McKinsey leaders who work on various sustainability topics.

As a fellow, you will focus on a mix of client work and knowledge development. Some examples of client projects could include helping develop a sustainability strategy, a decarbonization roadmap for a consumer-goods client, or advising a bank about climate-risk exposure within investment portfolios.

_{Please note, fellow roles are not available to apply directly to from outside of the firm. You must be a McKinsey colleague with at least one year of experience as a generalist consultant.}

If you have sustainability experience, you may apply directly to one of our Sustainability Practice roles. As part of this group, you’ll work in teams and will be instrumental in supporting leading organizations around the world achieve sustainability and decarbonization goals.

Solutions Consultant

As a Solutions Consultant, you’ll specialize in bringing data-driven insights to clients by developing, owning, and delivering the next wave of asset-based solutions to help them across their sustainability strategy and transformation journeys.

_{Please note, you must have 1-5 years of experience in sustainability technologies, research, and analytics for these roles.}

Expert Consultant

As an Expert Consultant, you will split your time between using your well-defined knowledge expertise to support our client service and building our knowledge and capabilities in a particular domain.