Consultant - Manufacturing
Pubblicato il 29-08-2026 - Mckinsey in Milano
Overview
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McKinsey’s Manufacturing service line is part of our Operations Practice and helps leading companies develop and implement future-oriented lean manufacturing strategies. Our clients include leading companies worldwide across a wide range of industries.
Your Impact
As a consultant in our two-year Operations Excellence Program (OEP), you will work on client engagements in the same way as any other McKinsey consultant. You will play an active role in problem solving for clients including identifying issues, forming hypotheses, designing, and conducting analyses, and synthesizing conclusions into recommendations. You will gain leading edge operations and consultancy skills, primarily through on-the-job coaching, complemented by the OEP’s structured capability-building program.
We view the OEP position as the start of a rewarding, challenging and highly flexible career with McKinsey and the Operations practice. During your first years, you will serve as a consultant on multiple client engagements and work with colleagues and clients in a range of industry and operations service lines. You will acquire the necessary knowledge and expertise to help companies achieve excellence in their operations. You will dedicate many days to functional training and knowledge development under the leadership of our operations experts, following a curriculum based on operations excellence themes with advanced training in one of six areas:
manufacturing, product development, purchasing, service operations, supply chain management, or capital excellence. Upon completion, successful consultants will join our global group of leading experts in operational excellence.
You will be based in one of our European offices as part of our Operations Practice.
McKinsey’s Manufacturing service line is part of our Operations Practice and helps leading companies in all industries develop and implement lean manufacturing strategies.
Your Qualifications and Skills
- Master’s degree and exceptional academics required
- Initial experience in Lean Manufacturing (e.g., the Toyota Production System, kaizen methods, TPM, JIT, SMED)
- Proven record of leadership in a work setting and/or through extracurricular activities
- Mobility and enthusiasm for taking on European assignments during the work week
- Exceptional analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills
- Ability to communicate complex ideas effectively, both verbally and in writing, in English and local office language
Seniority level
- Associate
Employment type
- Full-time
Job function
- Consulting, Manufacturing, and Production
- Industries: Motor Vehicle Manufacturing, Chemical Manufacturing, and Manufacturing
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