McKinsey & Company Looking for Knowledge Analyst – IT Sourcing & Procurement – McKinsey Digital at Gurgaon, Haryana Full Time

Full Job Description

Who You’ll Work With

You’ll work with McKinsey Digital in our Gurugram office to bring 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.

McKinsey Digital has multiple Centers of Competence (CoC) with members in each CoC supporting various McKinsey Digital service lines to bring deep subject matter expertise strengthening our client value proposition and delivery.

The Technology & Strategy Management Center of Competence (CoC) is one such capability which supports multiple topics including technology sourcing. The CoC serves as a global knowledge hub of expertise that owns, maintains and deploys key proprietary knowledge assets. The CoC serves client’s end to end sourcing lifecycle, across various categories (e.g., IT services sourcing, software/hardware procurement, cloud procurement, digital and analytics, etc.). One of our significant areas of client service revolves around helping clients in sourcing of IT products, i.e. commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software and services including Software-as-a-Service (SaaS products).

Our office culture is casual, fun 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 provide support to various client service teams to help shape critical business decisions for our clients.

In this role, you will support the development of content expertise (in IT contracting/procurement) and maintenance of capabilities (including assets, knowledge, tools, fact packs, case studies, primers) and deliver that expertise to both client serving teams and directly to clients. You will work on client engagements as part of the client service team, leading a workstream in area of expertise and/or provide short-term support delivering key insights in content-focused questions. Your direct client support may be onsite or remote (though unlikely to be fully remote) and regional or global in nature. You will work with global clients spread across time zones. While the amount of time spent staffed will vary, the average time is typically 40-50% of client time.

You will partner with client service teams to understand knowledge needs and leverage a solid understanding of business trends, issues and concepts to drive complex analyses to provide unique insights and deliver synthesized, actionable facts via end products (PowerPoint charts, written memos, models and framework) to our client serving teams and clients directly, as required.

You will work alongside senior knowledge professionals on larger client projects and internal knowledge initiatives. Additionally, you will collaborate and actively contribute to the workflow and activities within the global team around broader technology-related topics and also coach and develop colleagues.

Qualifications

MBA or equivalent degree in engineering or a technology-related field

3+ years of relevant experience in sourcing/procurement of various IT services, software and hardware including strategic supplier selection, contracting, renewals, software strategy life planning and costing, software licensing, software implementation cloud procurement and enterprise architecture

Strong understanding of IT services procurement (across applications, infrastructure and cloud), software license management lifecycle including planning, negotiations and contracting models

Experience in analyzing IT services/software (including SaaS), hardware, cloud contracts to identify opportunities for savings, revenue assurance

General understanding of broad IT strategy and sourcing space; working market knowledge (e.g., key vendors, services and technology trends)

Ability to engage and interact independently with client personnel including procurement specialists

Willingness to work in a highly demanding and results-oriented team environment

Solid problem-solving capabilities with excellent analytical and quantitative skills

Superior written and verbal communications skills

Ability to travel to other offices/client locations for short/long term assignments