Specialist, External Capabilities and Insights
Apply NowCompany: McKinsey & Company
Location: Atlanta, GA 30349
Description:
Your Growth
You will engage and collaborate with Partners, Experts, Directors, and Asset Leaders to ensure that the right external resources are deployed at the right time, helping teams deliver distinctive client impact. You will also be responsible for supporting high-value investment initiatives, overseeing the incubation of new external capabilities, and help steward some of the Firm's most complex and high-stakes investments. In doing so, you will provide strategic guidance on third-party relationships, streamline account dynamics, and work closely with senior account executives to shape commercial agreements that drive long-term, sustainable outcomes.
Risk management and compliance will be key aspects of your role. You will collaborate with Legal, Risk, and Finance teams to assess and mitigate third-party risks, protect intellectual property, and implement best-in-class governance frameworks. Your ability to balance commercial needs with firm priorities will be critical in shaping an external capabilities strategy that is both innovative and secure.
You will contribute to strengthening the firm's external knowledge strategy by codifying best practices and sharing insights across eC&I. Your role will also involve monitoring emerging market trends, tracking competitive dynamics, and staying ahead of new entrants and industry developments. Additionally, you will help drive efficiencies in vendor management processes, optimize investment recovery planning, and ensure seamless integration of external resources into firm operations.
Your Impact
In this role you will drive how CSTs, Capabilities and Insights colleagues, Assets, and Practices engage with external capabilities to enhance client service.
Leveraging a Category Management approach, you will develop a deep understanding of practice strategies, client needs, use cases, and knowledge priorities, using this insight to build a robust external capabilities ecosystem.
You will shape an evolving portfolio of third-party resources, identifying opportunities to upgrade or complement existing offerings, and ensuring external capabilities align with the firm's innovation agenda.
Your qualifications and skills
You will engage and collaborate with Partners, Experts, Directors, and Asset Leaders to ensure that the right external resources are deployed at the right time, helping teams deliver distinctive client impact. You will also be responsible for supporting high-value investment initiatives, overseeing the incubation of new external capabilities, and help steward some of the Firm's most complex and high-stakes investments. In doing so, you will provide strategic guidance on third-party relationships, streamline account dynamics, and work closely with senior account executives to shape commercial agreements that drive long-term, sustainable outcomes.
Risk management and compliance will be key aspects of your role. You will collaborate with Legal, Risk, and Finance teams to assess and mitigate third-party risks, protect intellectual property, and implement best-in-class governance frameworks. Your ability to balance commercial needs with firm priorities will be critical in shaping an external capabilities strategy that is both innovative and secure.
You will contribute to strengthening the firm's external knowledge strategy by codifying best practices and sharing insights across eC&I. Your role will also involve monitoring emerging market trends, tracking competitive dynamics, and staying ahead of new entrants and industry developments. Additionally, you will help drive efficiencies in vendor management processes, optimize investment recovery planning, and ensure seamless integration of external resources into firm operations.
Your Impact
In this role you will drive how CSTs, Capabilities and Insights colleagues, Assets, and Practices engage with external capabilities to enhance client service.
Leveraging a Category Management approach, you will develop a deep understanding of practice strategies, client needs, use cases, and knowledge priorities, using this insight to build a robust external capabilities ecosystem.
You will shape an evolving portfolio of third-party resources, identifying opportunities to upgrade or complement existing offerings, and ensuring external capabilities align with the firm's innovation agenda.
Your qualifications and skills
- Undergraduate degree ; MBA or advanced degree preferred
- 5+ years of experience in consulting, research, resource management, or a related field
- Proven ability to engage and influence senior leaders as a peer, working across multiple functions and stakeholders in a complex organization
- Experience in a knowledge-related function, with an understanding of data, information services, and third-party contracting risks (preferred)
- Strong problem-solving, negotiation, and project management skills, with a strategic and analytical mindset
- Entrepreneurial spirit - Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, balancing multiple priorities
- Global experience navigating large organizations, managing budgets, performance metrics, and vendor negotiations