Your Growth

You’ll be based in Brussels or Dusseldorf as part of our global MetalLens team. MetalLens is part of McKinsey’s Basic Materials Institute.

MetalLens provides metal companies with the strategic business intelligence they need to identify, quantify and prioritize value creation opportunities in their operations. It combines McKinsey's metal operations diagnostic approach, a comprehensive database of metals (steel, aluminum, copper and others) performance benchmarks and global metals expertise. MetalLens enables clients to assess and improve labor productivity, equipment effectiveness and reduce costs. MetalLens is tasked to identify improvement opportunities, quantify the value at stake and deliver recommendations for action to senior clients and front-line managers to improve performance.

Your Impact

You'll lead and conduct specific cost and benchmarking analysis supporting operational performance assessments of production assets globally. In this role, you'll be responsible for all the processes associated to a MetalLens diagnostic which covers the full production value chain from raw materials to Metals production, casting, rolling and coating.

When regularly embedded into client service teams, you'll lead the problem-solving with the team and credibly present the insights and benchmarking results to clients. You'll lead specific business development efforts to generate new clients and maintain existing clients, new product development of innovative approaches to Metals industry data analytics from A-Z including business cases and be up-to-date with latest industry trends and competitor offerings. You'll lead and follow up on specific client development initiatives in effort to build client relationships. You'll lead specific internal and/or external knowledge initiatives, be responsible for the codification of knowledge pieces and their presentation on leading industry conferences and contribute to coordinating and planning external events.

In close cooperation with other firm team members, you will lead and shape the MetalLens knowledge agenda. You'll contribute to the further development and growth of the team by participating in hiring activities and actively coach and mentor junior colleagues.

Your qualifications and skills

Excellent academic qualifications in metals (steel, aluminum, copper, zinc or others), metallurgy or related field; master's degree preferred 
2+ years of work experience in the metal industry with a focus on production, process engineering, continuous improvement, technical consulting or maintenance 
Superior problem-solving and analytical skills with proficiency in business software (e.g., Excel, Powerpoint) and advanced analytical packages 
Experience working in a rapidly growing business with an entrepreneurial spirit, autonomy, and a keen interest in taking action to build the business in a start-up environment 
Significant understanding of the industry dynamics of the metal sector 
Passion for analytics and interest in developing new approaches to metal data analysis and application to operational improvement 
Willing to work in a highly demanding and result-oriented team environment with periodic travel
Ability to be stand-alone in senior client settings and present complex value propositions to client executives 
Prior experience of anchoring client engagements independently 
Excellent written and oral communication skills; ability to work in English (other languages also welcome)

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