Client Activation Senior Manager - Global Energy & Materials

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.

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.

• 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, all while upholding our unwavering commitment to ethics and integrity. 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. Plus, you’ll have the opportunity to learn from exceptional colleagues with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
• 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.

You will partner with practice leadership to shape and execute the client activation agenda, connecting priority client themes with the firm’s distinctive capabilities and expertise. You will identify and amplify client priorities by analyzing the market landscape, surfacing client needs, and synthesizing feedback from client wins and losses. You will translate these insights into client development opportunities and priority campaigns, working closely with practices, service lines, and regional teams.

You will leverage firm resources to understand executive priorities and partner with Reach & Engagement (R&E) and the Client Activation Personalization team to design targeted engagement with priority executives, including webinars, McKinsey-hosted events, and industry forums. You will partner with the competitive intelligence team to identify market shifts, sharpen our differentiators, and translate competitive insights into client activation priorities. You will bring the firm’s most relevant client development platforms, experts, and capabilities to priority interactions.

You will also support the practice’s modernization agenda by promoting adoption of GenAI tools and ways of working within CSTs. You will execute the client activation plan in partnership with client development colleagues and cross-functional teams, driving measurable outcomes. You will help build and connect the NA Electric Power and Natural Gas (EPNG) and NA Global Energy & Materials (GEM) communities, serving as a key convener across practices, service lines, regions, and functions.

You will shape leadership agendas, facilitate regional forums, and drive follow-through on agreed priorities to advance NA EPNG and GEM objectives. Your work will help drive sustainable client impact across the EPNG sector and broader GEM in the region, while supporting the growth and connectivity of the regional community or practitioners. You’ll be part of our GEM team in one of our approved locations in North America.

GEM is the firm’s largest industry sector, bringing together six industry practices spanning energy, materials, and industrial value chains. The EPNG Practice in North America is one of GEM’s largest and fastest-growing areas, with strong momentum across a diversified base of programmatic clients. Its success is grounded in deep sector insights, distinctive client service, and a strong focus on client experience.

As we continue to grow, our priorities include winning in AI and Capital Excellence, deepening service line and CST engagement, expanding into whitespace…