Practice Specialist - Purchasing and Procurement
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Beijing, China · Shanghai, China · Shenzhen, Guangdong, China · France
Posted on Mar 11, 2025
Practice Specialist - Purchasing and Procurement
Job ID: 95241
Do you want to work on complex and pressing challenges—the kind that bring together curious, ambitious, and determined leaders who strive to become better every day? If this sounds like you, you’ve come to the right place.
Your Impact
You’ll work with colleagues and clients from a wide range of business areas across the world to develop purchasing strategies.
You will make an important contribution to the analysis, design, and implementation of business performance approaches, developing tailor-made solutions and working closely with clients to ensure positive impact and sustainable results. This includes gathering and analyzing information, formulating and testing hypotheses, and developing recommendations for presentation to client management. From there, you will implement those recommendations with client team members.
In addition, you will work in cooperation with our worldwide network of consultants to shape McKinsey's thinking in this area, continuously developing your own knowledge, as well as that of the firm.
You’ll also gain new skills and build on the strengths you bring to the firm. Consultants receive exceptional training as well as frequent coaching and mentoring from colleagues on their teams.
Your Growth
You’ll be working with McKinsey’s Operations practice in Greater China. Our Operations practice assists our clients in solving complex operational challenges. Blending strategic thinking with hands-on practicality, our teams of consultants and experts work to develop and implement operational strategies that solve our clients' most critical problems.
McKinsey’s Purchasing & Supply Management Service Line is committed to helping clients transform their purchasing and supply management organizations as well as in operational problem-solving across the business enterprise. This often involves fundamentally changing the corporate organization and culture to embrace lasting change.
Your qualifications and skills
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or supply chain related areas, advanced degree preferred
- 6+ years of global purchasing experience for large organizations, e.g. automotive, IT/high-tech, industrial/consumer goods, pharmaceuticals or retail sector
- Strong foundational knowledge of purchasing and strategic sourcing principles such as: TCO, supplier collaboration, design to cost, risk management, price leverage, organizational design, global sourcing, etc.
- Demonstrated aptitude for analytics
- Proven record of leadership in a work setting and/or through extracurricular activities
- Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment
- Ability to work effectively with people at all levels in an organization
- Skills to communicate complex ideas effectively in English and Mandarin
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Job Skill Code - PS - Specialist
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LinkedIn Job Title - Practice Specialist - Purchasing and Procurement
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Job Skill Code - PS - Specialist
Function - Operations
Industry -
Post to LinkedIn - Yes
Posted to LinkedIn Date - Wed Feb 19 00:00:00 GMT 2025
LinkedIn Posting City - Shanghai
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LinkedIn Posting Country - China
LinkedIn Job Title - Practice Specialist - Purchasing and Procurement
LinkedIn Function - Manufacturing;Purchasing;Supply Chain
LinkedIn Industry - Management Consulting;Mining & Metals;Oil & Energy
LinkedIn Seniority Level - Associate
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