McKinsey & Company
Consultant - Capital Excellence
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Consultant - Capital Excellence
Who You'll Work With
You will thrive 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. Our team invests deeply in your development and your colleagues will support you as much as they focus on delivering exceptional results for clients.
With us, you’ll experience:
- Continuous learning: Our apprenticeship culture (backed by structured programs) ensures feedback is clear, actionable, and focused on your growth. Own your journey by applying feedback and thriving in a fast-paced learning environment.
- A voice that matters: From day one, your ideas and contributions are valued. Your input will drive innovative solutions, upheld by our culture of ethics and integrity.
- Global community: With colleagues across 65+ countries and 100+ nationalities, we foster diversity-based creativity to solve complex client problems.
- World-class benefits: Including a competitive salary (based on location, experience, and skills) and a holistic well-being benefits package for you and your family.
Your Impact
As a consultant in our two-year Operations Excellence Program (OEP), you’ll shadow McKinsey consultants on client engagements with these responsibilities:
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- Actively problem-solve for clients by:
- Identifying issues.
- Forming hypotheses.
- Designing and conducting analyses.
- Synthesizing conclusions into actionable recommendations.
- Develop leading-edge operations and consultancy skills through:
- On-the-job coaching.
- The OEP’s structured capability-building program.
This role marks the start of a rewarding, challenging, and flexible career with McKinsey and the Operations Practice. Over your first few years, you’ll earn the expertise needed to help companies achieve operational excellence. Alongside other OEP members, you’ll dedicate days to:
- Functional training led by operations experts.
- A curriculum based on operations excellence themes.
- Advanced training in one of six expertise areas:
- Manufacturing
- Product development
- Purchasing
- Service operations
- Supply chain management
- Capital excellence
Post-program, you’ll join our global operations excellence experts, including alumni at levels from associate to partner.
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As part of our European offices’ Operations Practice, you’ll:
- Combine strategic thinking with hands-on practicality to deliver operational excellence.
- Support the Capital Excellence service line, advising clients on:
- Strategic and operational capital projects (construction, infrastructure, etc.).
Application instructions: Submit your application in English, including:
- CV
- Transcripts (school, university, etc.), all grades where relevant
(Use hashtags:
#Operations2026 #EuropeEP)
Your Qualifications and Skills
- Master’s degree, with exceptional academic record (required).
- Practical experience in capital excellence topics, such as:
- Capital projects
- Capital management systems
- Real estate
- Infrastructure
- Construction
- Proven leadership in:
- Work settings.
- Extracurricular activities.
- European work mobility available. Willingness to take on weekday-based European assignments.
- Analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills.
- Ability to communicate complex ideas effectively:
- Verbal (English).
- Written (English + local office language).
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