McKinsey & Company Hiring for Knowledge Analyst – Procurement at Gurugram, Haryana, India Full Time

You will be based in our Gurugram or Chennai office as part of our Procurement hub.

Procurement is a rapidly growing service line that helps organizations build competitive advantage through the development of world-class purchasing and supply management capabilities. Sustainable impact is our focus and how we measure our success. We focus on end-to end optimization that looks at total value capture, including strategic sourcing, global sourcing, supplier collaboration & innovation, procure-to-pay, organization design, and capability building.

Our client engagements span most industry sectors with a concentration in Automotive and Assembly, Basic Materials, Consumer Goods, Retail, Pharma, and Travel Transport & Logistics. We have completed over 2,300 Procurement engagements across the globe and all industries in the last 5 years.

Your Impact

You will be a core member of Procurement hub with responsibilities that range from working on client engagements by driving a workstream for specific categories, most often under guidance of other content experts and developing cutting edge knowledge related to procurement domain.

In this role, you will be providing support to Client Service Teams delivering key insights on content focused questions (spend analysis, TCO/cleansheet costing, contract analysis, supplier identification, saving idea/lever identification, sourcing strategy, development, RFQ management and analysis, negotiation strategy development and tracking mechanism development).

You will also support client proposals and other client development activities and bring relevant knowledge and capabilities to clients. This role requires extensive travel to client location for >70% time within or outside India.

Your Qualifications and Skills

• Bachelor’s in engineering/technology; master’s degree preferred with MBA from a business school with specialization preferably in operations will be an added advantage
• 3+ years of relevant industry/consulting experience in procurement
• Strong understanding of purchasing, sourcing, supplier identification and management, vendor development, costing etc.
• Solid problem-solving capabilities, including the ability to disaggregate issues, identify root causes and recommend solutions
• Excellent analytical skills and ability to understand the relevant analysis required to prove a hypothesis and ability to gather information around it and make informed/logical assumptions where required
• Basic understanding of research techniques, information sources, and statistical analysis/analytic techniques relevant to purchasing and operations
• Good business knowledge and solid understanding of economic, financial, and general business concepts and terminology
• Strong interpersonal skills, good team player
• Intellectual curiosity
• Strong written/verbal communications skills
• Strong proficiency in Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and relevant analytics/statistical packages
• Knowledge/experience on e-procurement tools – spend analysis tools, RFQ tools, should costing/zero based costing, eAuctions, etc. will be added advantage