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Job Title Consultant

Description

Who You'll Work With

You'll work with McKinsey Digital, Middle East Offices. This group brings together the best of McKinsey's digital capabilities to help our clients use digital technology to transform their businesses.

As part of this group, you'll join a global team working on everything from IT modernization and strategy to agile, cloud, cybersecurity and digital transformation. You'll typically work on projects across all industries and functions and will be fully integrated with the rest of our global firm. You'll also work with colleagues from across McKinsey & Company to help our clients deliver breakthrough products, experiences and businesses, both on technology and non-technology topics.

Our office culture is casual and social, with an emphasis on education and innovation. We have the freedom to try new ideas, experiment and are expected to be constantly learning and growing. There is also a strong emphasis on mentoring others in the group, enabling them to grow and learn.

What You'll Do

You will typically work in teams of 3-5 consultants to help clients achieve new performance highs.

In this role, you will make an important contribution to the analysis, design and implementation of business performance approaches, developing tailor-made solutions and working closely with clients to ensure positive impact and sustainable results. This includes gathering and analyzing information, formulating and testing hypotheses and developing recommendations for presentation to client management. From there, you will implement those recommendations with client team members.

You'll also gain new skills and build on the strengths you bring to the firm. You will receive exceptional training as well as frequent coaching and mentoring from colleagues on their teams.

Qualifications

• Solid career progression and track record of

professional success in an IT strategy consulting firm, a high performing
IT department, a technology company, a technology-leveraged business, or
managing large IT projects (candidates might have experience as
traditional IT consultants, CIOs, CTOs, senior level IT executives, etc.)

• History of strong academic performance,

preferably in top tier schools; advanced degree preferred

• Outstanding problem solving skills;

analytic/quantitative comfort; demonstrated ability to identify business
issues, form hypotheses, design and conduct analyses, and synthesize
conclusions into recommendations

• Strong general business acumen; broad

understanding of current IT trends and technologies, their impact on
business strategy, and implications for senior managers in creating and
sustaining competitive advantage and transforming business processes

• Exceptional interpersonal skills; strong

executive presence

• Team player/leader; mentor; thought leader;

collaborative partner

• Distinctive functional experience in strategy,

technology, operations, products, general management, consulting and/or
deep industry knowledge in industries such as financial services, high
tech, energy/utilities, telecom, retail, etc * Strong IT generalist skills with a demonstrated

depth and breadth of knowledge in at least one of core capabilities
(sample profiles follow) plus a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience
in that capability:

- IT Management, incl. Business IT strategy (e.g. new
tech-enabled business models or customer facing products) and digital user
experience (e.g. design thinking, user centricity, integration of digital and
analog): experience managing the IT function in an organization; experience
aligning IT investments with business strategies and determining IT investment
priorities; high-level program/project management experience; track record of
success in managing any of the following IT-related functions: functional
business requirements, customer needs analyses/satisfaction, vision,
architecture, methodologies, planning, costing, utilization, organization,
integration, migration, analysis, design, process, scheduling, hardware,
software, development, communications, networking, quality assurance, vendor
analysis, etc.

- IT Architecture and technology delivery, incl. Agile and DevOps
experience in software delivery and business and technology architecture (open
architecture, micro-services, APIs): understands the critical components of and
can develop technology infrastructure and architecture; has the ability to
build applications, computing platforms, infrastructure, etc.; skills in and
knowledge of standards, protocols, project tools, applications, and trends;
experience as a technology/solutions/systems architect or senior level manager
of similar functions; background in functional and applications architecture
assessment, development, and implementation; experience integrating, migrating,
converting and/or optimizing systems and applications; experience designing and
implementing frameworks, tools, services, processes, etc.

- Technology-enabled
operations and foundation, incl. next generation infrastructure services
(e.g. cloud, end-to-end automation, No-Ops, PaaS), data architecture and
advanced analytics and cyber-security and IT defenses (e.g. cyber security,
data privacy): passionate about operations and technology and their
intersection; experience in operational process redesign, ERP/decision support
systems, web enablement, vendor solutions providers: experience in engineering,
product development, procurement/purchasing, manufacturing, production,
maintenance, supply chain management, or other operations/supply chain
experience from an industrial, technological, or service-based company or with
another consulting firm

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