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.
Your Impact
You will contribute to press office and team operations, AI-enabled ways of working, media training, analytics and team connectivity.
You will play a leading role in bringing the latest tech & AI tools and solutions to the team. You will bring strong judgment, attention to detail, and a practice, solution-oriented mindset – helping the team execute and continuously improve.
You will join McKinsey's Media Relations and Strategic Communications teams within the firm's Reach and Engagement function. These teams work internally and externally to protect and strengthen the firm's reputation, support firm-building priorities, and help ensure the right messages reach external, internal, and institutional audiences. You will help deliver timely, high-quality communications and operational support across media relations and strategic communications.
You will be based in Europe on the Media Relations team with a dotted line to the Strategic Communications team. You will work closely with colleagues across both teams to support high-priority communications, improve coordination, and help the team operate efficiently across markets, stakeholders, and channels.
You will leverage strong writing, organization, and stakeholder-management skills to elevate the firm's communications, showcase its knowledge and perspectives, and protect its reputation across channels, platforms, and audiences.
In terms of creating effective communications: you will support media hotline coverage, media monitoring, newsletters, and the triage of inbound media inquiries; draft or coordinate briefings, memos, Q&A, and background materials for live situations; and contribute to proactive media pitching, interview staffing, and spokesperson support. You will help ensure communications are clear, well-structured, risk-aware, and aligned with firm messaging and leadership priorities.
In terms of project management and execution: you will help implement AI tools and new workflows that improve efficiency, quality, and consistency across the team; you will coordinate knowledge management and team operations across tools such as SharePoint and Box; help plan connectivity meetings and track follow-through on team actions; manage media training scheduling, tracking, follow-up, and automation opportunities; and support metrics, analytics, and reporting across media relations and strategic communications activities.
Your Qualifications and Skills
- 3+ years of experience in media relations, corporate communications, strategic communications, or related roles; professional services or agency experience is a plus
- A strong command of technology and AI is a must
- Fluency in Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Teams) and relevant collaboration and knowledge-management tools, including SharePoint and Box
- Understanding of media relations, strategic communications, and reputation-sensitive communications
- Comfortable working in quick, iterative ways and using AI and other technology tools to improve quality, consistency, and efficiency
- Ability to work independently and entrepreneurially, manage multiple priorities, and see projects through from end to end
- Strong organizational and project-management skills, including logistics, tracking, follow-up, and process improvement
- Collaborative, proactive, and comfortable receiving and providing feedback across teams
- Demonstrates sound judgment, discretion, resilience, and the core values expected of firm colleagues
- Excellent communication skills across formats, including briefings, memos, and Q&A
- Proficiency and fluency level language skills in verbal and written English; additional languages are a plus
