Specialist - Strategic Initiatives
McKinsey & Company
Tokyo, Japan
Posted on Apr 4, 2025
Specialist - Strategic Initiatives
Job ID: 96479
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
As the Specialist, you will support several priority strategic initiatives for the Japan Office with the ultimate purpose of scaling the positive client impact in Japan.
This unique role as an “internal consultant” requires collaborative thought-partnering with senior internal clients, as well as creative, analytical, and conceptual thinking, project management, and hands-on implementation skills.
In this role, you will independently spearhead strategic initiatives, guiding them from design through piloting to full implementation and operations. You will manage complex, high-priority projects that demand advanced problem-solving and execution skills as an independent contributor. Acting as a thought partner to initiative leaders, you will help shape direction, ensure quality, and drive timely execution.
To maximize the impact of your assigned initiatives, you will collaborate closely with various internal teams (e.g., strategy, event, and CRM) and engage with high-profile stakeholders. Additionally, you will support the local client committee with research and analysis to facilitate strategic decision-making and, as an integral part of the office community, contribute to creating an exceptional working environment.
Your Growth
You will be part of a central team of dedicated professionals with diverse backgrounds who directly support office leaders. Together, you will drive topics such as special executive counseling programs, client experience initiatives, client development acceleration programs, and customer team excellence sessions.
Beyond the Japan Office, you will also work with initiative leaders and team members across geographies globally to exchange best practices and insights for both local initiative acceleration and contributions to global efforts in the spirit of a unified firm partnership.
Your qualifications and skills
- Strong project management skills to drive and execute multiple initiatives and their workstreams
- Hands-on implementation skills
- Outstanding problem solving and analytical skills, with in-depth experience relevant IT tools
- An entrepreneurial mindset to self-drive, refine and grow our portfolio and pipeline of client strategic initiatives at different levels
- Strong interpersonal, stakeholder management and relationship-building skills – in particular, you need to be comfortable to act as a thought partner to Director-level and Partner-level colleagues
- Strong ability to form and share an own opinion, with flexibility and ability to respect and absorb diverse perspectives to build consensus
- High personal integrity, proven ability to work with high sensitivity, discretion and confidential documentation
- A continuous learner who embraces rapid change with agility and an open mind.
- Willingness to work in a global environment which frequently involves adjustments to other time zones
- Experience in a consulting environment is a plus
- Fluent in Japanese and English
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