Knowledge Analyst – Manufacturing & Supply Chain Full Time

Driving lasting impact and building long-term capabilities with our clients is not easy work. You are the kind of person who thrives in a high performance/high reward culture – doing hard things, picking yourself up when you stumble, and having the resilience to try another way forward.

In return for your drive, determination, and curiosity, we’ll provide the resources, mentorship, and opportunities you need to become a stronger leader faster than you ever thought possible. Your colleagues—at all levels—will invest deeply in your development, just as much as they invest in delivering exceptional results for clients. Every day, you’ll receive apprenticeship, coaching, and exposure that will accelerate your growth in ways you won’t find anywhere else.

When you join us, you will have:

• Continuous learning: Our learning and apprenticeship culture, backed by structured programs, is all about helping you grow while creating an environment where feedback is clear, actionable, and focused on your development. The real magic happens when you take the input from others to heart and embrace the fast-paced learning experience, owning your journey.
• A voice that matters: From day one, we value your ideas and contributions. You’ll make a tangible impact by offering innovative ideas and practical solutions, all while upholding our unwavering commitment to ethics and integrity. We not only encourage diverse perspectives, but they are critical in driving us toward the best possible outcomes.
• Global community: With colleagues across 65+ countries and over 100 different nationalities, our firm’s diversity fuels creativity and helps us come up with the best solutions for our clients. Plus, you’ll have the opportunity to learn from exceptional colleagues with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
• World-class benefits: On top of a competitive salary (based on your location, experience, and skills), we provide a comprehensive benefits package to enable holistic well-being for you and your family.

Your Impact

You will spend a significant part of your time solving complex client problems in the logistics domain.

You will help in developing optimal network strategies, defining and implementing warehousing improvement levers, working on logistics transformation, and conducting logistics diagnostics on supply chain performance for global supply chains of our clients.

For these, you will be deploying statistical analysis, data analytics, optimization & simulation techniques as well as Gen AI & Agentic AI learnings. You will also support the development and maintenance of McKinsey’s proprietary supply chain tools and other knowledge development projects.

Your Qualifications and Skills

• Postgraduate degree in operations management, statistics or industrial engineering
• 1+ years of relevant experience in a manufacturing, service-oriented, analytics firm with basic supply chain exposure is desirable
• Coding skills in Excel VBA, Excel Macros, R, Python or any other open-source language
• Specific exposure to issues in inventory management, demand planning, production planning and scheduling, logistics optimization and IT in supply chain is desirable
• Excellent problem-solving skills including the ability to disaggregate issues, identify root causes and recommend solutions
• Ability to work under pressure and deliver on tight deadlines
• Ability to work effectively with people at all levels in an organization and collaboratively within a team
• Communication skills to explain complex ideas effectively