Careers in Nigeria

McKinsey’s commitment includes providing you with a platform to work with teams from diverse backgrounds and wide-ranging experiences. You will be part of a fast-growing firm, participate in impactful work, and have the opportunity to broaden your skillset and grow your career.

On joining McKinsey, you can expect to participate in training with colleagues from various regions that make up our Africa office. Instructors will share more on our organizational culture, talk about our core values, discuss our problem-solving approaches and core consulting skills, and spend time understanding and celebrating your uniqueness. When you start working on engagements, we’ll provide you with experiences that steer your professional development and give you the opportunity to tackle broad challenges across sectors.

As you grow with the firm, you will shape your personal growth and development journey and explore different paths—from client-facing roles as generalists or practice consultants—within digital, marketing and sales, operations, social health and public entities, and many other areas—to internal roles such as communications, compliance, people and human resources, and risk.

We recognize and understand the strength that lies in diversity and the role it plays in delivering distinctive client solutions. We welcome candidates from around the world.

We value the wide range of professional backgrounds of our colleagues. Generally, years of professional experience range from one to eight years up to associate level, depending on the role.

There is no single “right” course of study or field of experience for our consulting path. Common qualities shared by our colleagues include excellent academic and professional performance, leadership abilities, strong problem-solving skills, and great personalities. We focus on what distinguishes each candidate.

However, practice consulting roles may require degrees in certain areas and a depth of experience or specialization in the field.

You don't need an MBA to join the firm. We welcome exceptional talent. We mean it when we say we are most interested in your unique contribution and working with you to deliver impact. You may refer to the role description for your area of interest to understand any specific requirements.

The end-to-end recruitment process takes approximately two to three months.

Yes. We offer two exciting internship programs at McKinsey Nigeria: our Young Leadership Program (YLP) for recent graduates, and a ten-week summer internship for first-year MBA students. Our interns are an integral part of our team.

Our one-year Young Leaders Program (YLP) offers recent graduates the unrivaled opportunity to work as integral members of our teams and experience life at McKinsey firsthand. The YLP develops exceptional young African talent into real leaders. At the end of the program, high-performing fellows may receive an offer to join McKinsey as a full-time consultant.

People with bachelors’ degrees join McKinsey as business analysts. Some stay for 2 or 3 years before attending business school or gaining further work experience. Others are invited to stay at McKinsey and move directly into an associate role.

Junior associates and associates lead a key portion of a McKinsey engagement, combining technical and analytical excellence to help solve their piece of the overall client puzzle. They work directly with senior client leaders to implement change. These roles are suitable for experienced professionals with 2 to 8 years of solid work experience, and for students currently studying toward a doctorate (PhD), law degree (LLB), medical degree (MD), non-business master’s degree, or MBA.

Our 10-week summer internship program is only open to first-year MBA students. Interns work as integral members of our teams, experiencing McKinsey life firsthand.