Your Growth
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. 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, which includes medical, dental, mental health, and vision coverage for you, your spouse/partner, and children.
Your Impact
You will join a group of marketing and communications professionals within the firm’s Reach and Engagement (R&E) function. These colleagues help ensure that appropriate insights reach designated audiences, building awareness and engagement with McKinsey’s distinctive knowledge on a variety of topics. They shape the way the firm connects with people—from clients to firm members to alumni—strengthening institutional relationships, connections, and affiliations.
Through collaborating with senior communications colleagues and external stakeholders, you will contribute to the development and execution of best-in-class global communications programs, events, and publications.
Strategy & Corporate Finance (S&CF) is one of the largest practices in our firm, with more than 4,000 colleagues globally, including 1,200 core colleagues, and serves clients on top-management level issues including corporate strategy and restructuring, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and alliances, business due diligence, value-based management, ESG strategy and strategy in IPO situations.
S&CF seeks to further strengthen its communication and reputation building activities; enhance overall transparency on R&E impact via systematic pre- and post-event follow-up; and partnering closely with Client Activation to help deepen and broaden our client relationships. Through development, support, and execution of creative communication plans and tactics, you will build awareness of McKinsey’s capabilities, knowledge, and assets. You will help protect McKinsey’s reputation, punctuate its expertise, and contribute to bringing campaigns to life in S&CF.
You will create clear, structured, and engaging written communications products (e.g., memos, emails, short-form content, blogs, talking points/scripts, Q&A) that rigorously follow conventions of written English, aligning with firm leadership when necessary. You will proactively collaborate with internal and external clients and stakeholders to develop and advise on communications. You will help drive development and delivery of communications for reports, special projects (e.g., digital strategy design, knowledge partnership strategy), storytelling (e.g., social posts, case studies), external/internal conferences, and/or events (e.g., forums, webinars, roundtables). You’ll conduct strategic assessments to support prioritization of communication campaigns and events (e.g., competitor insights, event speaker research), and collate into digestible formats for leadership. You will ensure consistent branding (i.e., firm's signature voice, visuals, and narrative) across communications platforms and channels in support of relevant brand pivots.
In terms of project management and execution: you will contribute to defining appropriate best-in-class communications and events objectives and strategies to achieve them (e.g., paid media, earned media, CRM support, social media support). You will effectively lead complex projects independently or with a designated team, aligning with key stakeholders as relevant. You’ll drive reputation-building programs through a mix of publishing activities (e.g., monitoring of media relations and public relations, targeted knowledge dissemination) and lead and execute plans to address routine reputation risks, with appropriate stakeholder alignment. You will manage data through reports and scorecards to track relevant metrics (e.g., client development, ROI, share of voice, mapping media engagement programs). Additionally, you will help coordinate the creation of contact databases to maximize dissemination and engagement
As the communications specialist, you will be an integral member of the global S&CF R&E team, responsible for supporting our reputation-building programs by providing critical tactical assistance and input on strategy for a wide range of global and regional marketing and communications activities including:
- Providing high-quality writing, editing and marketing support for channels such as event invitations; digital communications; event talking points for partners; internal partner messages; impact summaries; presentation materials (e.g. R&E updates for practice leadership); social media posts; and analyst and media briefings.
- Working with the broader R&E, client activation, and client capabilities teams to help engage the practice’s client communities and supporting SC&F’s approach to measuring and reporting R&E impact.
- Assisting in planning and executing successful client events, particularly our flagship events; help to increase attendance by priority clients; support pre- and post-event follow-up and impact by working with client activation to expand conversations with clients and prospective clients on strategy and corporate finance topics.
Additionally, you will work with the broader practice and powerhouse Reach and Engagement team to support new initiatives and help bring the best of the firm’s R&E capabilities to our work.
Your qualifications and skills
- Bachelor’s/University degree required
- 5+ years of experience in a business communications-related field, a benefit if in a professional services environment, corporate communications role, government, or communications agency background
- Mastery of Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Teams) and firm related tools (Box, Slack)
- Proficiency and fluency in verbal and written English is required
- Broad skillset across relevant communication and marketing service lines and platforms (e.g., external/internal comms, media relations, events, executive comms)
- Excellent communication skills across formats (e.g., written, verbal/presentation, digital-ready content, storytelling) and ability to apply them to develop and execute a strategy across portfolio of communications channels
- Ability to manage various projects simultaneously and work independently as well as collaboratively in a fast-paced and ambiguous operating environment, while driving for quality implementation and excellence
- Excellent ability to influence and direct colleagues, and manage needs of different stakeholders (including relevant senior leaders)
- Outstanding critical reasoning and problem-solving skills, including ability to disaggregate issues, identify root causes, and recommend solutions
- Ability to create psychological safety and inclusion within teams, enabling a collaborative environment
- Exhibits core firm values in attitude and work (e.g., owning development, driving work, demonstrating resilience)
