North American Knowledge Center, McKinsey & Company
McKinsey & Company (www.mckinsey.com) is a premier global management consulting firm that serves the world’s leading companies on issues of strategy, operations, finance, marketing, and organization.
McKinsey’s North American Knowledge Center (NAKC), located in Waltham, MA (20 minutes west of Boston), provides research and analytic support to McKinsey consultants. The Center hosts several industry and functional research teams as well as a few specialized teams such as the Geospatial and Demographic Analytics (“Geo-Demo”) research team. The Geo Demo research team assists consulting teams to problem solve on a wide range of business issues that are geospatial in nature. These researchers conduct geographic and demographic analysis, using GIS for real life business decision making.
The Geo Demo team intends to develop client facing capabilities in one or more of the following areas:
- Spatial statistics
- Spatial data-mining
- Spatio-temporal analytics
- Ecological modeling
- Customer prospecting
- Demographic modeling
- Socio-spatial analytics
We are seeking a graduate (Master’s/PhD) student with applied knowledge in one or more of these areas (or other related areas) to assist in building the capability.
Requirements
- Strong academic qualifications, and currently pursuing an advanced degree (Master’s, PhD) in programs such as GIS, Geography, Sociology, Planning and other related fields
- Demonstrated experience in advanced spatial analytics techniques in one or more of the areas outlined above
- Professional experience in a marketing, operations or strategy role (or an equivalent degree of industry exposure); and consulting experience in one or more of the following industries/sectors: telecom, retail, financial services , healthcare, or climate change -is preferred but not required
- An entrepreneurial spirit and the ability to get things done
- Strong interpersonal and analytic skills
- Strong communications skills – both oral and written
Application and assessment process
Interested candidates should send a resume to Mykyung Kang, McKinsey Knowledge Recruiter (mykyung_kang@mckinsey.com).
There is no deadline for submission. We will conduct interviews on a rolling basis until a successful candidate is identified. The ideal start date is June 1.
