Associate Partner - Advanced Industries/Aerospace & Defense

McKinsey & Company • Washington DC, United States • 1w ago

Who You'll Work With

You will typically lead multiple teams of 3–5 consultants and will help our clients in the Advanced Industries and Aerospace & Defense sectors solve some of their most pressing problems with People and Organizational Development. You will work with a range of experts in the firm, from consultants to data scientists to researchers to software and app designers.

Your impact within our firm

You will provide your knowledge and expertise to top managers at client organizations.

In this role you will have the opportunity to be an entrepreneur, identifying new opportunities to help clients make lasting improvements to their performance and realize their most important goals. You will coach, lead, and advise consultants as they develop, framing business problems in a way that they can take action to solve. You will join teams in problem solving sessions and be a thought partner to engagement managers on both team and client management.

When you join McKinsey, you are joining a firm that will invest in your professional development. As an associate partner, you will receive training and coaching on how to better:

lead teams and clients through challenges in an inclusive, empathetic way;
coach and sponsor others;
command attention with all audiences using a variety of techniques;
structure ambiguous problems and take action to solve them.

Your qualifications and skills

Undergraduate degree required, master’s degree in business, organizational development, operations or related disciplines preferred
Prior experience as a consultant in a professional services firm required
10+ years of work experience after graduate school, focused in people and organizational challenges within the Advanced Industries and Aerospace & Defense sectors
Entrepreneurial drive to develop new client relationships and generate business development opportunities
Ability to work collaboratively in a team and create an inclusive environment with people at all levels of an organization
Ability to break down and solve business problems through quantitative thinking and analysis
Comfort with ambiguous, ever-changing situations
Publication of knowledge or thought leadership in your industry space is a plus
Ability to communicate complex ideas effectively, both verbally and in writing, in English and the local office language(s)

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