You'll lead and conduct specific cost and benchmarking analysis supporting operational performance assessments of production assets globally. In this role, you'll be responsible for all the processes associated to a MetalLens diagnostic which covers the full production value chain from raw materials to Metals production, casting, rolling and coating.
When regularly embedded into client service teams, you'll lead the problem-solving with the team and credibly present the insights and benchmarking results to clients. You'll lead specific business development efforts to generate new clients and maintain existing clients, new product development of innovative approaches to Metals industry data analytics from A-Z including business cases and be up-to-date with latest industry trends and competitor offerings. You'll lead and follow up on specific client development initiatives in effort to build client relationships. You'll lead specific internal and/or external knowledge initiatives, be responsible for the codification of knowledge pieces and their presentation on leading industry conferences and contribute to coordinating and planning external events.
In close cooperation with other firm team members, you will lead and shape the MetalLens knowledge agenda. You'll contribute to the further development and growth of the team by participating in hiring activities and actively coach and mentor junior colleagues.
You’ll be based in Brussels or Dusseldorf as part of our global MetalLens team. MetalLens is part of McKinsey’s Basic Materials Institute.
MetalLens provides metal companies with the strategic business intelligence they need to identify, quantify and prioritize value creation opportunities in their operations. It combines McKinsey's metal operations diagnostic approach, a comprehensive database of metals (steel, aluminum, copper and others) performance benchmarks and global metals expertise. MetalLens enables clients to assess and improve labor productivity, equipment effectiveness and reduce costs. MetalLens is tasked to identify improvement opportunities, quantify the value at stake and deliver recommendations for action to senior clients and front-line managers to improve performance.