Specialist_Procurement &Purchasing
McKinsey & Company
Operations
Shanghai, China · Taipei City, Taiwan
Posted on Apr 2, 2025
Specialist_Procurement &Purchasing
Job ID: 96707
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 will be a thought leader and skilled practitioner focused on helping our clients transform their procurement organizations while simultaneously solving operational issues across the business enterprise.
In this client-facing role, you will play a key part in driving process improvement, delivering successful business results and developing broad based strategies for a diverse set of clients.
Your responsibilities will include defining new organizational structures and processes by upgrading line and staff skills, changing the structure of reporting relationships, developing improved processes, and/or instituting rigorous performance-monitoring systems.
You will typically work in teams of 3-5 consultants, making 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.
You will be gathering and analyzing information, formulating and testing hypotheses, and developing recommendations to present to clients.
You will also 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.
Your Growth
You will be based in our Taipei office as part of McKinsey’s Operations practice.
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. Our teams mobilize the client by engaging with client teams led by their senior management and staffed by their top talent aggressively to pursue operational improvement.
Your qualifications and skills
- Bachelor's degree ideally in an engineering field; advanced degree or MBA is preferred
- 8+ years of global procurement experience for large organizations preferably in automotive, IT/high-tech, industrial/consumer goods 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.
- Experience assessing and driving transformational improvements across purchasing and sourcing organizations
- Experience in business strategy planning is a plus
- Proven leader with the ability to inspire others, build strong relationships and create a true followership
- Collaborative team player, capable of working well with others but also autonomously with little direction
- Superior analytical, quantitative and conceptual thinking
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Entrepreneurial and result-driven achiever
- Fluent in English and Mandarin
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Job Skill Group - CSS Associate
Job Skill Code - PS - Specialist
Function - Operations
Industry - Automotive & Assembly;Consumer Packaged Goods;High Tech
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Posted to LinkedIn Date - Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 GMT 2025
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LinkedIn Job Title - Specialist_Procurement &Purchasing
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Job Skill Code - PS - Specialist
Function - Operations
Industry - Automotive & Assembly;Consumer Packaged Goods;High Tech
Post to LinkedIn - Yes
Posted to LinkedIn Date - Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 GMT 2025
LinkedIn Posting City - Taipei
LinkedIn Posting State/Province -
LinkedIn Posting Country - Taiwan
LinkedIn Job Title - Specialist_Procurement &Purchasing
LinkedIn Function - Consulting;Manufacturing;Production
LinkedIn Industry - Automotive;Computer Hardware;Consumer Electronics
LinkedIn Seniority Level - Not Applicable