Specialist - Portfolio Adoption & Performance in London

Who You'll Work With

You are someone who thrives in a high‐performance environment, bringing a growth mindset and entrepreneurial spirit to tackle meaningful challenges that have a real impact. In return for your drive, determination, and curiosity, we'll provide the resources, mentorship, and opportunities to help you quickly broaden your expertise, grow into a well‐rounded professional, and contribute to work that truly makes a difference.

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.
• 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, all while upholding our unwavering commitment to ethics and integrity.
• 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.
• Exceptional benefits: On top of a competitive salary (based on your location, experience, and skills), we provide a comprehensive benefits package to enable holistic well‐being for you and your family.

Your Impact

You will work out of one of our offices in London, Madrid, Lisbon, Prague, or Poznan as a part of Optimize, McKinsey's global procurement capability, enhancing and protecting the firm's resources and reputation by making responsible buying easy and creating leading solutions and experiences across our third‐party ecosystem.

We are hiring a Specialist for the Portfolio Adoption & Performance (A&P) team. This team is responsible for leading and managing the adoption and change management efforts of Optimize's responsible buying channels and processes.

You will report to the Manager of Portfolio Adoption and work closely with colleagues across the Adoption & Performance team, as well as with Optimize initiative owners and other firm stakeholders.

You will support the design and execution of change management strategies across Optimize's responsible buying processes, policies, and Third Party Management initiatives.

You will partner with initiative teams to drive adoption and ensure successful implementation of change interventions across the portfolio.

You will turn Optimize priorities into executable change plans across initiatives and lead execution, including stakeholder mapping, impact assessments, communications, and adoption tracking.

You will support continuous improvement of the team's Adoption playbook, tools, and tracking to ensure consistent execution.

Your work will accelerate adoption of responsible buying practices and strengthen the impact of the Adoption as a centralized capability within Optimize.

Your Qualifications and Skills

• 5+ years of professional experience, including 2+ years in change management, strategy, or change communications, preferably within a professional services or consulting firm.
• Experience driving change management and adoption across diverse audiences through repeatable processes, artifacts, and integrated frameworks and strategies developed with stakeholders.
• Capable of raising issues, generating solutions, and working effectively under pressure.
• Strong project management skills, with the ability to handle multiple tasks, prioritize them, and carry them out independently while being mindful of the big picture.
• Curious mindset with a demonstrated ability to rapidly learn and apply new concepts across content areas, using AI as an enabler to enhance ideation, refine work products, and improve efficiency.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity by making informed, data‐driven decisions grounded in evidence and logical analysis.
• Proficiency in generating work product‐focused materials or outputs, including but not limited to PowerPoint presentations, repeatable artifacts, and other written and electronic deliverables.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal abilities, including proficiency in presenting regularly to a global audience, and establishing and sustaining collaborative relationships.