You will be part of Optimize, McKinsey’s global procurement capability, enhancing and protecting the firms’ resources and reputation by making responsible buying easy and creating leading solutions and experiences across our third-party ecosystem.
You will be part of our Global Purchasing Team. This team helps the firm to preserve value and mitigate risk by designing and operating colleague-centric third-party channels that incorporate the required level of control to protect the firm from risk while ensuring that colleagues can easily follow the process.
You will lead the design and execution of initiatives focused on process re-engineering, technology adoption, and change management aimed at enhancing control and compliance across third-party orders and financial transactions. You will design new third-party buying channels by assessing current processes and identifying gaps and challenges; and manage risk by ensuring proper controls and responsible practices are embedded in the financial transaction channel. Identifying opportunities and use cases for AI tools and agents to improve team tasks and workflows and driving AI adoption and responsible use in line with risk guidelines.
You will lead a cross-functional effort to implement newly designed financial transactions channels, establishing a No Control – No Pay program by partnering with Procurement Operations, Category Management, Third-Party Risk, Adoption & Performance, and Solutions teams, and, encompassing both process and system enhancements. This work includes assessing and redesigning current control and payment processes, incorporating critical controls that enable responsible practices, and driving third party transactions through preferred channels in collaboration with other departments.
You’ll gain new skills and build on the strengths you bring to the firm. In this high-profile role, you will be exposed to senior firm leadership and expected to collaborate closely outside of Optimize with firm, Finance, and other functional leadership, delivering significant impact for the firm.
