Knowledge Analyst - Telco

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, 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 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 to enable holistic well-being for you and your family. You will play a key role in expanding our impact in our Technology, Media & Telecommunications practice with a focus on Telecom, contributing to growing client impact in this space. You will help solve complex client problems by leveraging research, data, analytical tools, and deepening industry / functional expertise. You will collect, structure, and analyze information from a range of internal and external sources, translating findings into actionable insights to support client recommendations and decision-making. Your day-to-day responsibilities will include working closely with consulting teams and clients to understand business needs, identifying key questions, and determining the most relevant approaches and capabilities to address them. You will contribute to problem-solving through a variety of activities, ranging from research and analysis to developing insights, identifying opportunities, and shaping recommendations, with a particular focus on applying your specialized sector knowledge to client challenges. You will synthesize findings, develop insights and business implications, and deliver high-quality outputs, including presentations, written reports, analytical models, and analytical frameworks. You will collaborate with colleagues and clients to address business challenges, drawing on a wide range of information sources, industry knowledge, proprietary assets, and emerging capabilities such as GenAI, while continuously exploring innovative ways to enhance the quality and impact of your work. Beyond client engagements, you will play an active role in building, developing, and maintaining the firm's specialized knowledge and analytical capabilities, including proprietary databases, benchmarking tools, research assets, case studies, and sector-specific insights, working closely with local and global experts. You will also support internal initiatives, share knowledge with colleagues, and contribute to the development of expertise across teams. You will be part of our Middle-East Client Capabilities Network (CCN), collaborating with regional colleagues and clients across the region. Your focus will be on Telecom across the region, developing and applying expertise across client engagements. You will receive mentorship and guidance from McKinsey managers and leaders to continuously strengthen your analytical, problem-solving, and industry capabilities. Your work includes extensive travel within the Middle East to support client engagements across locations.

Bachelor or Masters degree, ideally in telecom engineering 2+ years of relevant experience with a telecom company or market/industry research/consulting firm with focus on the telecommunications industry Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, combined with strong business acumen and an understanding of relevant industry and economic concepts Ability to accomplish work in fast-paced and dynamic environments Ability to work well in a team setting and across all levels within an organization Proficiency with GenAI preferred (e.g. research, analytics, task automation)