Solution Analyst - Procurement and Digital Sourcing

McKinsey & Company

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 help clients capture cost savings using digital sourcing tools. These digital sourcing tools help clients run digital auctions, digital Request for Quotes (eRFQs), digital tenders (eTenders) and digital requests for information (eRFI). Digital tools help clients save up to 30% off their cost base - significantly higher savings compared to non-digital methodologies.

You will consult these clients as a part of a large and diverse client service team. You will work with a vast variety of clients - up to 1 unique client per month.

In order to set you up for success, McKinsey will train you to become a global expert in procurement best-practices, digital sourcing and digital sourcing tools including Coupa Sourcing Optimizer, JaggaerOne, and ScoutRFP. We will also train you to demonstrate the asset solution capabilities helping you develop business development skills.

You will join the consulting team as a core member responsible to execute portions of the sourcing project plan.

You will drive end to end sourcing event strategy, event design, vendor negotiations and savings capture.

You will help clients understand basic sourcing optimization terminology and workflow, planning the sourcing process and identifying requirements for a relevant outcome using McKinsey best practices.

You will provide analytics support to deliver key insights on sourcing projects thru use of the configurable reporting tools to assess responses, aggregate data, and create negotiation support and business summaries. You will produce high quality results from solution assets.

The Digital Sourcing team will provide you support whenever required.

You will ensure digital procurement assets, vendors, and processes adhere to our standards and that client information and data is safeguarded to the utmost level.

You will be based in our San Jose office and will be part of our Digital Procurement team.

Specifically, you will be part of the Digital sourcing team - leaders and peers the team will work with you on a daily basis.

This group is part of McKinsey’s Product development and Procurement (PDP) service line. McKinsey has the world’s largest Procurement consulting practice, serving over 1,000 clients annually on procurement. McKinsey is also the world thought leader and the trend setter in this space.

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 qualifications and skills

  • Engineering degree
  • Strong proficiency in Excel (including vlookup, index-match, pivots); proficiency of macros, array functions, and PowerPoint will be an added bonus
  • Understanding of and interest in purchasing, sourcing and saving opportunity identification
  • Solid problem-solving capabilities, including the ability to disaggregate issues, identify root causes and recommend solutions
  • Knowledge on variety of procurement technologies and sourcing solutions like Ariba, Zycus, Jaggaer, ScoutRFP, Coupa, TradeExtensions, Bravo solution, Ivalua, SynerTrade etc. and deep expertise is a huge plus
  • Exposure to cutting edge procurement topics such as spend analysis and digital sourcing will be an advantage
  • Coding, Keelvar, statistics or data analysis background - nice to have; these skills will help you learn the digital tools faster

Please review the additional requirements regarding essential job functions of McKinsey colleagues.

FOR U.S. APPLICANTS: McKinsey & Company is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

FOR NON-U.S. APPLICANTS: McKinsey & Company is an Equal Opportunity employer. For additional details regarding our global EEO policy and diversity initiatives, please visit our McKinsey Careers and Diversity & Inclusion sites.

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