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Consultant - Purchasing & Supply Management

Job ID: 27576
  • Seoul


Do you want to do work that matters, alongside supportive leaders who will help you grow faster than you ever thought possible? Are you a creative problem-solver who is energized by challenges? You’ve come to the right place.

Who You'll Work With

You’ll be working with McKinsey’s Operations practice in South Korea. Our Operations practice assists our clients in solving complex operational challenges. Blending strategic thinking with hands-on practicality, our teams of consultants and experts work to develop and implement operational strategies that solve our clients' most critical problems.

McKinsey’s Purchasing & Supply Management Service Line is committed to helping clients transform their purchasing and supply management organizations as well as in operational problem-solving across the business enterprise. This often involves fundamentally changing the corporate organization and culture to embrace lasting change.

Your impact within our firm

As Purchasing Specialist, you will work with colleagues and client staff from a wide range of business areas across the world to develop purchasing strategies.

You will typically work in teams of 3 – 5 consultants to help clients achieve new performance highs. You’ll make an important contribution to the analysis, design, and implementation of business performance approaches, developing tailor-made solutions and working closely with clients to ensure positive impact and sustainable results.

This includes gathering and analyzing information, formulating and testing hypotheses, and developing recommendations for presentation to client management. From there, you will implement those recommendations with client team members.

In addition, you will work in cooperation with our worldwide network of consultants to shape McKinsey's thinking in this area, continuously developing your own knowledge, as well as that of the firm.

Your qualifications and skills

  • Bachelor’s degree ideally in Engineering field, Advanced degree in related fields or MBA is preferred
  • Minimum 6 years of global purchasing experience for large organizations, preferably in Automotive, IT/High-tech, Industrial/Consumer Goods, or Retail sector
  • Strong foundational knowledge of purchasing and strategic sourcing principles such as: TCO, supplier collaboration, design to cost, risk management, price leverage, organizational design, global sourcing, etc.
  • Experience assessing and driving transformational improvements across purchasing and sourcing organizations
  • Experience in business strategy planning a plus
  • Demonstrated aptitude for analytics
  • Proven record of leadership in a work setting and/or through extracurricular activities
  • Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment
  • Ability to work effectively with people at all levels in an organization
  • Skills to communicate complex ideas effectively
  • Fluency in English and Korean a must
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Job Skill Group - CSS Associate
Job Skill Code - PS - Specialist
Function - Operations
Industry - Aerospace & Defense;Automotive & Assembly;Capital Projects & Infrastructure;Chemicals;Consumer Packaged Goods;Electric Power & Natural Gas;Financial Services;Healthcare Systems & Services;High Tech;Industrials & Electronics;Life Sciences;Media & Entertainment;Metals & Mining;Oil & Gas;Private Capital;Public Sector;Retail;Semiconductors;Social Sector;Telecommunications;Travel, Transport & Logistics
Post to LinkedIn - Yes
Posted to LinkedIn Date - Thu Feb 21 00:00:00 GMT 2019
LinkedIn Posting City - Seoul
LinkedIn Posting State/Province -
LinkedIn Posting Country - South Korea
LinkedIn Job Title - Consultant - Purchasing & Supply Management
LinkedIn Function - Consulting;Engineering;Purchasing
LinkedIn Industry - Management Consulting
LinkedIn Seniority Level - Associate