Role Descriptions

If you apply to McKinsey shortly after finishing your master’s degree or PhD, you will typically begin as a junior associate. A junior associate is responsible for discrete problem-solving aspects of each client engagement. You will also play important roles in data gathering, contributing to your team’s final recommendations, and presenting your work to senior client executives.

Associates typically have an MBA from an internationally-accredited business school or three to eight years of relevant work experience. You will take an active role in all aspects of an engagement—identifying issues, including forming hypotheses; planning and conducting interviews and analyses; synthesizing conclusions into recommendations; and helping to implement change. As you gain skills and confidence as an associate, you will manage increasingly greater responsibilities.

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 analyzing data, interviewing clients, and contributing to the team’s recommendations. After 2 years of developing broad business skills, and given that you provide a good performance, you can choose to take educational leave—to obtain your MBA, (financially supported by McKinsey) —and come back as an associate after graduation.

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

Our largest practice, McKinsey Digital, is home to more than 700 consultants who work with senior executives on their most pressing technological issues. Our teams serve a wide range of sectors, including energy, finance, health-care, and telecommunications. We offer independent, objective advice on how digital technologies can improve our clients’ performance. We collaborate with top management to support our clients in three main areas:

• optimizing digital-technology strategy, architecture, and governance models to provide effective support to the business
• improving the efficiency of the digital-technology function and designing sourcing and location strategies for IT services
• using digital technologies to transform business processes and pursue business opportunities—for example, realizing the benefits of big data

As a McKinsey Digital specialist, you could help clients transform their companies from asset-based to information-based businesses, identify IT-enabled growth opportunities facilitated by emerging technologies, or increase key decision makers’ access to critical data by leveraging new digital tools and approaches.

For more information about McKinsey Digital careers, visit our global practice site.

Are you interested in joining the McKinsey Digital practice in Norway? Apply now by selecting Europe as the region and Oslo as your location preference.