Role Descriptions

That role is for final-year students in bachelor’s or master’s degree courses during the current year and for people who graduated during the previous year and have had less than 12 months of full-time work experience since graduation.

The business analyst internship, which runs about 9 to 12 months, is designed for people who want to gain firsthand experience of management consulting and to learn about careers at McKinsey. As a business analyst intern, you’ll experience a McKinsey consultant’s day-to-day life as an active member of a team, responsible for specific parts of projects, and get day-to-day coaching and your own personal mentor. Like the rest of the team, you’ll work with clients at their sites and spend time with your colleagues in the McKinsey office to understand how it operates.

These roles are for candidates with a bachelor’s or master’s degree and work experience from 1 to 3 years for a Business analyst role, and 3 to 5 years for a Senior business analyst role.

In client engagements, business analysts take responsibility for solving discrete parts of problems. They play an important role on client-engagement teams, actively contributing to the final recommendations and often presenting their work to the client’s senior executives.

This is a position for candidates who hold a master’s, an MBA, a PhD, or another advanced degree and have more than five years of work experience.

Associates lead key parts (usually called “workstreams”) of client engagements. They apply a broad range of creative problem-solving skills, combining technical and analytical excellence to help solve their piece of the client’s overall puzzle. Associates develop conclusions into recommendations and work directly with the client’s senior leaders to implement change.

As associates serve clients in different industries and functional areas, they develop a broad tool kit of problem-solving skills, leadership capabilities, and foundational knowledge that they can apply to each new client engagement. Because the skill sets of associates entering McKinsey vary, so will their mix of client exposure and formal training. When associates are ready for the next level of responsibility, they become engagement managers.

This is a position for candidates who hold a master’s, an MBA, a PhD, or another advanced degree and have more than eight years of work experience.

Engagement managers lead the day-to-day execution of a client project while guiding and developing individual team members. They work directly with clients – usually on site – and take ownership of the overall project and its end products. They 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.

Engagement managers have the opportunity to build on leadership skills and leverage their interest in inspiring others, building strong relationships, and creating a true followership. Their superior analytical, quantitative and conceptual thinking skills and strong interpersonal and communication skills will ensure successful client projects and team performance.