Manager of Communications

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. 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.

Through partnership with senior leaders and stakeholders across communications initiatives, you will serve as a leader to your team and will drive the development and execution of best-in‑class global communications programs, events, and publications that will enable client activation and funnel building across all channels.

By leveraging strategic project briefs, data‑driven insights, and a deep understanding of audience needs, you will ensure communications efforts are aligned with the firm’s priorities and deliver measurable impact. You will proactively shape creative communications content and tactics to showcase McKinsey’s capabilities, knowledge, and assets. Additionally, you will maintain McKinsey’s reputation, punctuate its expertise, and bring campaigns to life in relevant ways across channels, platforms, and stakeholders.

You will proactively shape creative communications strategies to showcase McKinsey’s knowledge and assets, maintain the firm’s reputation, and bring campaigns to life in the Middle East Office (MEO). This role will lead the planning and execution of flagship events, round tables, and partner dinners, while also managing sponsorship negotiations and speaking opportunities. This role involves supporting practice‑specific events in collaboration with client activation teams, overseeing event vendors as needed, and driving post‑event amplification in partnership with the Digital Lead.

Additionally, you will ensure firm themes are seamlessly integrated into the overall branding and narrative for a cohesive and impactful event strategy.

In terms of creating effective communications: you’ll drive high‑quality writing and editing by leading/enabling teams to develop clear, structured and engaging written communications that rigorously follow conventions of written English (and local languages when relevant). Along with cell leaders, you will manage the firm’s reputational risk by mapping strengths/weaknesses and handling opportunities/threats. You’ll anticipate, identify and respond to reputation risk issues to protect and enhance McKinsey's reputation by reviewing materials and proactively shaping narratives.

You’ll conduct strategic assessments to support execution and prioritization of communication campaigns and events (e.g., competitor insights, event speaker research), collating insights into actionable formats for leadership and ensuring alignment with project briefs when applicable. You’ll establish high‑quality and…