Who You'll Work With
You will be part of McKinsey's Social, Healthcare and Public Entities (SHaPE) practice based in Boston. As a member of Capabilities & Insights team with a focus on public and social sector, you will be part of our global Client Capabilities Network (CCN) delivering distinctive client impact through assets and expertise and are driven by a culture of innovation. In this role, you will have opportunities for high levels of interaction with consultants and the rest of the knowledge team. You will be the primary point of contact between many consultant teams and our global SHaPe team.
The SHaPE practice is one of 10 industry practices within the firm and has a mission of measurably improving individuals’ lives, livelihoods and health, creating safer and more just communities around the world. SHaPE serves governments, donors, healthcare payors/providers and non- governmental organizations on topics including health, public finance, education, defense, economic development and beyond. McKinsey’s Social, Healthcare and Public Entities practice fosters innovation driven by advanced analytics, user experience design thinking, predictive forecasting and new product development. We are a community of entrepreneurs within McKinsey dedicated to using technology to accelerate meaningful impact for our clients. Through self-service access to analytics and data, software as a service solution, strategic acquisitions, and a vibrant ecosystem of alliances, we are redefining what it means to work with McKinsey. Our practice is organized around domains that house intellectual property and expert practitioners, Centers of Excellence (CoE), and cross-functional special teams working to bring a distinctive approach to our clients in practice priority areas like digital and analytics.
When you join McKinsey, you are joining a firm whose culture is distinctive and inclusive. We will accelerate your development as a leader to create positive, enduring change in the world.
Your impact within our firm
You will leverage a solid understanding of business trends, issues, and concepts to efficiently respond to complex research questions by delivering synthesized, actionable facts and insights to our consulting teams and clients.
In this role, you will work alongside senior knowledge professionals on larger client projects and internal knowledge initiatives. By collecting and analyzing data and information found in databases and/or other primary and secondary research tools, you will assemble a fact base, counsel consultants and clients on the scope of the business and economic trends surrounding the issue and provide insights and analysis for solving client problems at hand.
On a daily basis, you will identify the key issues for a problem at hand and determine the most appropriate solution, while effectively balancing quality, availability, timeliness, and cost factors. You’ll likely perform a variety of analyses such as benchmarking, trend identification, industry profiling, market sizing, growth projections and opportunity scanning to add value to problem-solving discussions.
You will also participate in, and eventually lead, internal knowledge development and capability-building initiatives. Lasty, you’ll use advanced analytics tools to prepare and analyze large datasets to distil insights.
Your qualifications and skills
- University degree; preference in an area relevant to the public and social sector
- 1+ years of research or analytics experience
- Broad understanding in and passion for the public and social sector globally and locally
- Solid understanding of economic, financial, and general business concepts and terminology
- Advanced Excel skills
- Familiarity with core statistical concepts (e.g., correlation, regressions, confidence intervals, etc.)
- Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment and effectively with people at all levels in an organization
- Skills to communicate complex ideas effectively
- US citizenship required