Consultant - McKinsey Orphoz

McKinsey & Company is seeking a Consultant for their McKinsey Orphoz team in Jakarta, Indonesia. The role involves leading transformation projects for public and private sector clients, managing workstreams, and ensuring quality outcomes. The position offers opportunities for professional growth, mentorship, and collaboration within a diverse global community. Candidates should thrive in high-performance environments and be prepared to engage with senior clients to drive operational change.
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 ImpactYou will join our McKinsey Orphoz team in Jakarta, a part of McKinsey's rapidly expanding execution service line launched in Asia in October 2021.

As a Consultant, you will work in teams deployed at ongoing transformation projects at public or private sector clients. These projects can be 6-18 months long, where our objective will be to help ensure our client outcomes are achieved and frontline capabilities embedded in the client organization, while working flexibly within client teams, building broad client trust, and showcasing our project management competence.

In this role, you will serve as key contact for specific workstream(s) within a project, and will independently manage and ensure the quality of the project work, also reporting progress to and seeking guidance from your Delivery Manager. As an Orphoz consultant, you’ll be on the front lines of real transformation, driving lasting change alongside clients, solving complex problems, and seeing the tangible impact of your work on operations, people, and performance.

You will work closely with the in-country McKinsey Orphoz leadership and serve as a thought partner to senior clients, often engaging directly with CxOs, GMs, and functional VPs, to drive frontline change and deliver real operational impact. Through this, you will develop a CxO-level problem-solving mindset, sharpen your implementation skills, and gain firsthand experience in leading transformation on the ground. You will also support end-to-end diagnostic studies and delivery, while coaching client teams along the way. The role requires working closely with client team on-site, which may involve placements in remote or industrial locations.

Your qualifications and skills
• Bachelor’s degree in business, economics, engineering, or other technical areas with a strong record of academic achievement
• 3+ years of professional experience, including project delivery within transformation context, business planning, production forecasting, process improvements, or operational planning
• Sector exposure one or more of the following topics: frontline improvement programs in mining, O&G, power, or manufacturing; examples of topics include change or transformation programs, category management improvements, lean or i4.0 productivity program delivery, operational improvement projects
• Experience in programs with a strong digital or tech component, where you routinely worked with front-line operations teams and conducted workshops
• Qualifications such as Lean Six Sigma, project management certifications (e.g. PMP, Prince2), familiarity with digital tool platform (e.g. PowerBI, Tableau, SAP, MES systems), and background in operation/ industrial engineering are desirable
• Action driven individual with strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Exceptional time management to meet your responsibilities in a complex and largely autonomous work environment
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, in English and local office language(s), with the ability to adjust your style to suit different perspectives and seniority levels