Capabilities & Insights Analyst – Paper & Packaging - #184010

Who You'll Work With

You will join the Greater Boston or Toronto office and be part of our global Paper & Packaging Capabilities & Insights (Research) team.

McKinsey is a global management consulting firm that helps organizations achieve sustainable, inclusive growth. We work with clients in the private, public and social sectors to solve complex problems and create positive change for everyone involved. We combine bold strategies and transformative technologies to help companies innovate more sustainably, achieve lasting performance improvements and build workforces that will thrive for this generation and the next.

The Paper & Packaging team includes professionals globally who work alongside our consultants and clients to generate distinctive insights and proprietary knowledge. You will also be part of our global Client Capabilities Network (CCN) with more than 7,000 colleagues; where colleagues are driven by a culture of innovation and deliver distinctive client impact through assets and expertise. The range of tasks extends from short-term research to longer-term support of projects with complex analyses to the formulation of holistic publications.

When you join McKinsey, you are joining a firm whose culture is distinctive and inclusive. We will accelerate your development as a leader to create positive, enduring change in the world and to foster the energy transition.

Your Impact

You will leverage a solid understanding of business and technology trends, issues, and concepts in the paper & packaging industry, as well as other materials industries, to efficiently respond to complex questions by researching and synthesizing actionable facts and insights to our consulting teams and clients.

In this role, you will work alongside senior knowledge professionals on larger client projects and internal knowledge initiatives with a focus on paper & packaging. By collecting and analyzing data and information found in databases and/or other primary and secondary research tools, you will assemble a fact base, counsel consultants and clients on the scope of the business and economic trends surrounding the issue and provide insights and analysis for solving client problems at hand.

On a daily basis, you will identify the key issues for a problem at hand and determine the most appropriate solution, while effectively balancing quality, availability, timeliness, and cost factors. You will likely perform a variety of analyses such as benchmarking, trend identification, industry profiling, market sizing, growth projections and opportunity scanning to add value to problem-solving discussions.

You will also participate in, and eventually lead, internal knowledge development and capability-building initiatives. Lasty, you’ll use advanced analytics tools to prepare and analyze large datasets to distil insights.

Your Qualifications and Skills

• Undergraduate degree required; advanced degree (e.g. MSc or equivalent) in economics or natural sciences a plus
• 1+ years of experience in operations or strategy roles; experience within paper & packaging industry a plus
• Demonstratable interest and passion for sustainability in packaging and/or consumer packaging
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment and deliver independently on tight timelines
• Ability to break down and solve problems through quantitative thinking and analysis
• Ability to work effectively with people at all levels in an organization
• Skills to communicate complex ideas effectively
• Language fluency in English