Job description
Who You'll Work With
You will be based out of our New York office as a core member of the North America External Relations and Communications team, partnering with regional senior leadership. You will work closely with the NA Director of External Relations, regional communications colleagues, as well as the New York, New Jersey and Stamford office managing partners.
You will manage a small team of communications professionals and collaborate regularly with external relations colleagues in various regions, industries, and functional practices throughout the organization.
You will be responsible for a wide range of reputation-building activities in our Tri-State (NY/NJ/CT) locations, while overseeing reputation risk opportunities both internally and externally.
What You'll Do
You will lead the communications, convening, and reach & engagement strategy for our New York, New Jersey and Stamford offices. As our largest office globally, with over 2,500 colleagues, New York will be your location priority where you will deliver an ambitious communications and events program.
You will work with the office managing partners, and NA communications colleagues to create location-specific external relations plans. These will include hosting external events, identifying sponsorship and speaking opportunities, advising local leaders on inbound requests, and collaborating with key practices to maximize stakeholder engagement. You will also plan and execute high impact events for clients, prospects, alumni, and other priority external stakeholders. You will support local office social impact teams on community relations, helping to place leaders on non-profit boards, determine office pro-bono projects, and location based charitable contributions.
You will create and edit key leadership communications, including memos, announcements, and drive internal dissemination efforts. You will collaborate with the Web team to ensure the McKinsey.com pages are up-to-date and distinctive. You will also work with our organization’s Internal Communications team to feature stories across key internal channels.
In addition, you will leverage and advise senior leadership on the use of digital and social media. You will create social media templates to amplify local efforts and coverage. You will provide first-class media relations, public relations, and targeted dissemination of new research, articles, and publications.
You will build and maintain a robust list of strategic media contacts, as well as key influencers to secure media coverage in top local publications. You will collaborate with media relations colleagues to evaluate and respond to media inquiries including, identifying and preparing leadership to participate in media interviews.
In addition to the location communications responsibilities, you will also spearhead the firm’s NA stakeholder relations and engagement strategy, working with various practice, capability and geographic communications teams to identify local influencers and thought leaders.
You are a high performing, self-motivated, and entrepreneurial leader and will support a range of tasks related to our communication and reach & relevance strategy. You are passionate about our mission, and about working in a fast-paced environment serving multiple internal stakeholders.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent, with evidence of academic achievement and intellectual curiosity required
- 10+ years of experience in a communications-related field, such as a marketing/communications agency, or in-house communications/external relations role
- Deep and diverse experience in strategic communications in professional services, or other B2B environment, is preferred
- Strong event management skills and significant experience in planning and executing all aspects of high-profile roundtables and conferences aimed at senior business audiences
- Proven experience managing social media campaigns
- Team oriented, with a strong commitment to client impact; ability to work independently and lead others
- Experience in creating and driving multichannel integrated marketing programs
- Demonstrated project management experience and a proven ability to get things done quickly in a fast-paced environment
- Strong writing / editing skills – in particular, the ability to distill complex ideas into accessible and compelling copy tailored to the audience
- Exceptional influencing skills and the ability to relate to senior leaders both internally and externally as a peer
COVID-19 vaccination mandate:
Employment with McKinsey & Company, Inc. in the United States and Canada is conditioned on proof of full vaccination against the COVID-19 virus (with a WHO-approved or Health Canada-approved COVID-19 vaccine, as applicable) or approval of an exemption due to a qualifying medical condition or sincerely held religious belief prior to start date.
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