Role Descriptions

Specialist Consulting Roles

Business Analyst

As a business analyst, you will work on client projects as part of a team and be responsible for problem solving. You will play a key role in gathering and analysing data, interviewing clients, and contributing to the team’s recommendations. After 3 years of developing broad business skills, you can choose to take educational leave—to obtain your MBA (financially supported by McKinsey) or to gain other meaningful experiences—and come back as an associate after graduation.

For a business analyst role, we seek people in their final year of undergraduate studies.

Associate

As an associate or junior associate, you will focus on key portions of client projects and work towards leading engagements. You will have direct contact with senior clients and a high degree of independence. You might conduct analyses, interview clients and their customers, plan and facilitate workshops, translate conclusions into recommendations, or help design and implement large-scale organisational change programs. You will get extensive training to help build your core consulting skills and will receive ongoing feedback and mentoring from teammates and mentors. After 2 or 3 years, based on performance, you may move into the role of engagement manager and lead client projects, manage teams, coach junior colleagues, and take responsibility for initiatives within McKinsey.

For an associate role, we seek people with advanced degrees, such as an MBA, a master’s degree, or PhD and more than 3 years of work experience.

For a junior associate role, we accept people with an undergraduate degree and more than 3 years of work experience.

Digital

McKinsey Digital brings to clients more than twenty years of technology experience as well as newer digital capabilities like design, analytics, and rapid prototyping. We work with clients holistically, across their entire organizations, including core IT systems and data to transform their businesses and create competitive advantages.

In the Middle East, we help define and shape the digital strategies and deliver meaningful business impact for many of the world’s largest companies across banking, oil and gas, metals and mining, technology, and more. Whether you are on campus, hold a digital role in industry, work for a design organization, or are a successful entrepreneur, there are opportunities for you to learn and lead in McKinsey Digital.

For more on our Digital roles, visit our global Careers site.

Implementation

McKinsey Implementation provides distinctive support to ensure our clients realise the full benefits of McKinsey’s recommendations. Our consultants work directly at the client site to help build the capabilities, systems and processes to deliver and sustain long-term results.

With seasoned professionals from nearly every field, we work across a wide range of industries, including oil and gas, banking, retail, telecommunications, logistics and the public sector. We also bring our implementation expertise to major social initiatives. For example, we helped the state of Punjab, Pakistan to implement a four-year transformation of its schooling system–improving student enrollment, teaching quality and learning outcomes across 60,000 schools covering 10 million children. And we undertook a two-year effort to transform a Middle Eastern country’s technical and vocational education system.

In the Middle East, our implementation experience includes:

helping a national telco revamp its operations and train thousands of staff in customer service and sales, as part of a bold effort expand its coverage across geographies and customer segments.
working to build a new business process outsourcing entity to provide efficient, high quality, low-cost back office support services to commercial banks.
supporting a national oil company with the complete transformation of its work approach and collaboration across departments and teams–including setting up a high-powered project management office.

Desired Skills:

Industry knowledge from significant hands-on line or project management experience
A university degree and top grades
Outstanding practical problem-solving skills
Great initiative and creativity
Autonomous worker and team player
Confident, enthusiastic and mobile
Fluent in Arabic is a plus

For more on McKinsey Implementation, visit our global practice site.

Operations

McKinsey’s Operations Practice is the largest organisation of its kind in the world with over 2,500 experienced consultants, serving nearly three quarters of the global Fortune 100 companies. Working hand-in-hand with colleagues from McKinsey’s industry practices, we help clients across industries transform every aspect of their operations to deliver dramatic improvements in efficiency, productivity, quality and flexibility. Beyond physical system design, we address management infrastructure and employee attitudes and behaviours, ensuring that the shift to greater customer focus is deeply rooted in the organisation.

In the Middle East, much of our work focuses on capital productivity and implementation. We help our clients in capital-intensive industries grow profitably by maximising the value of their capital expenditure investments. Our work focuses on four main areas:

Maximise the value of large capital projects and increase the predictability of their outcome
Provide owners and developers with an unbiased assessment of the readiness of their projects to proceed
Improve the overall value of the entire capital investment portfolio
Develop world-class capital project organisations including resilient operating systems and deep skills and capabilities

Training Program

The McKinsey Infrastructure and Capital Productivity Academy (MICA)

MICA was established in 2012 in Dubai jointly by the McKinsey Operations and the McKinsey Infrastructure Practices. During its two-year training program, taught by some of the most experienced practitioners in the world, MICA develops specialists in the field of capital productivity and infrastructure.

For more information about Operations, visit our global practice site.

Interested in joining the EMEA Operations Practice? Visit our global Careers site.

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