Specialist - Emission Reduction and Disclosures

<strong>Who You'll Work With<br><br></strong>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>When you join us, you will have:<br><br><ul><li>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.</li><li>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.</li><li>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.</li><li>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.<br><br></li></ul><strong>Your Impact<br><br></strong>You will be part of McKinsey’s internal environmental sustainability (ES) team working to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 for the firm’s own operations. The team’s strategy focuses on cutting emissions, compensating for remaining emissions, and catalyzing broader climate action. Having successfully overachieved McKinsey’s 2025 emission reduction targets, the team is now working towards the firm’s 2030 interim targets.<br><br>This is where you come in: You will support your manager and broader ES team across McKinsey’s emission reduction efforts and external environmental sustainability disclosures. Emission reduction efforts span engaging with colleagues to foster behavior change and encourage adoption of sustainable initiatives, as well as environmentally sustainable procurement and supply chain decarbonization. The majority of McKinsey’s emissions are travel related and even more emissions are tied to our supply chain. In parallel, the disclosure landscape keeps evolving and accurate, consistent reporting is critical to our firm’s reputation. Therefore, this role is critical to the success of McKinsey’s net-zero journey.<br><br>You will work closely with the ES Director and broader ES team, and collaborate with stakeholders across the firm, including Category Leads (colleagues leading supplier relationships and strategy) in areas such as air travel, hotel, ground transportation, purchased goods &amp; services.<br><br>In this role, you will be working across three main areas, namely supplier engagement, colleague engagement, and reporting and disclosures. For supplier engagement, you will be supporting our supplier engagement strategy including, but not limited to, conducting data analyses, preparing for Quarterly Business Reviews with Category Leads and key suppliers, and implementing McKinsey’s CDP Supply Chain engagement. Initiatives that you will support include expansion and upkeep of Green Hotel certifications, incorporating nudges in travel booking platforms, and running electric vehicle campaigns. For colleague engagement, you will be responsible for supporting engagement efforts with colleagues such as fleet managers and staffing teams, to encourage emission reducing behaviors and adoption of sustainable initiatives. This will include conducting data analyses and extracting recommendations. In particular, you will lead the engagement with Green Teams, colleagues around the world voluntarily working on sustainability efforts in their offices. For reporting and disclosures, you will support the delivery of all environmental sustainability reporting requirements by gathering inputs, project managing timelines, and working closely with stakeholders for a timely, coordinated delivery. You will be the primary owner of drafting initial disclosure content, ensuring it is clear, accurate, and high-quality, and applying strong quality control to deliver consistent and audit-ready outputs.<br><br>In this role, you will gather, analyze, and integrate information from internal and external stakeholders (including structured sustainability disclosures, supplier survey responses, and unstructured, large datasets such as travel data, finance data, and other emissions data) to inform priorities and track progress. You will work closely with internal stakeholders to assess and implement decarbonization initiatives. You will also manage the delivery of audit-ready external disclosures and reports. You will conduct peer benchmarking and review latest industry standards, synthesizing findings and recommendations to inform our overall sustainability strategy and ensure it is up to date.<br><br><strong>Your Qualifications and Skills<br><br></strong><ul><li>Bachelor’s/university degree required</li><li>5+ years of relevant experience with a strong track record of working with data to analyze trends and draw insights to support decision-making in a collaborative and fast-paced environment. Experience with and/ or strong interest in environmental sustainability and decarbonization is a plus.</li><li>Proven ability to work with complex and large datasets, derive insights, and support data-driven decision-making. High level of accuracy and attention to detail is critical</li><li>Advanced proficiency in Excel required, with knowledge of SQL and/or Python a plus</li><li>Ability to break down problems, conduct analyses, and develop well-supported initial recommendations to inform team discussions and decision-making</li><li>Ability to deliver consistent, high-quality, and audit-ready outputs</li><li>Willingness and ability to engage with and support a wide range of stakeholders, and build strong relationships across geographies, roles, and levels</li><li>Passion for taking on new challenges, with a commitment to the firm’s sustainability targets, openness to ambiguity and potentially shifting priorities</li><li>Ability to manage multiple workstreams in parallel, prioritize effectively, and contribute to the delivery of high-quality outputs while maintaining attention to detail. Comfort working in a fast-evolving, sometimes ambiguous environment with shifting priorities. </li><li>Eagerness to integrate into and be part of the broader team and willingness to support others in their workstream as priorities evolve</li><li>Clear and concise written and verbal communication, with the ability to convey information effectively to senior leaders and other stakeholders</li></ul>