Third Party Risk Manager - Client Facing Collaborators

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 ImpactYou will be 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 Manager within the Third Party Risk Strategy pillar of Optimize’s Third Party Risk & Social Responsibility team. This team leads and oversees the firm’s global third party risk management program across risk domains. You will report to the Director of Third Party Risk Strategy and work with a global cross-functional team to build strategy and manage a global third party onboarding program, and technology focused specifically on third party client collaborators (third parties the firm engages with to extend and enhance our capabilities to serve clients). You will be based out of the Philadelphia, Atlanta, Denver, Miramar, Tampa, Boston or Washington DC office. In your role you will be responsible for co-creating strategy and managing risk-based processes that will enable an efficient and effective end-to-end client collaborator onboarding program and user experience. This includes the ongoing development and implementation of McKinsey’s third party risk framework and delivering risk programs to achieve excellence in managing client collaborator onboarding risk. You will foster strong partnership and team regularly with global firm functions including Compliance, Client Service Risk, Legal, Alliances & Ecosystem, Cyber Risk to continuously enhance the client collaborator focused third party risk program and address complex issues. You will interact on a regular basis with Partners, Senior Partners and client service teams. You will also work with the Operations team to ensure effective risk management, raise risk issues and escalations to the relevant stakeholders, with recommendations for resolution. To further build the firm’s capabilities, you will play a leading role in continually improving the risk management capabilities, technologies, data sources and documentation of the client collaborator onboarding program. You will support the development of standards, reporting and other program materials and documentation while ensuring that the onboarding program processes are auditable. You will partner with the broader Third Party Risk team to foster and coach a risk first awareness culture at McKinsey. You will stay ahead of risk issues and drive special projects that address emerging risks, market developments and/or internal customer needs. You can expect to manage a broad range of interesting projects on a global level. Your qualifications and skills • Bachelor’s/university degree required; advanced degree preferred • Demonstrable record of impact, with at least seven years of professional experience out of which a minimum of two years, in risk management or compliance, ideally in a professional services/consulting firm • Experience in developing internal controls, processes and principles related to third party risk management • Excellent judgment and exceptional integrity, as well as distinctive interpersonal and collaborative skills • Superior communication & interpersonal skills, including the ability to present to a global audience on a regular basis, build and maintain highly effective and collaborative relationships • Strong project management skills, with ability to drive to outcomes on cross-functional and complex projects • Curious mindset and demonstrated ability to learn new concepts and ideas, and to apply those concepts across multiple content areas • Strong professional computing skills, including Microsoft Office products (i.e. Excel, PowerPoint, Visio) • Comfortable with ambiguity in a work-setting, knowing how to address and manage unpredictable outcomes Apply Job!