Product Specialist

Publicado 06-10-2021

McKinsey & Company

Lisboa Lisboa (Publicidade / Marketing)


Qualifications

  • Bachelor?s or advanced graduate degree (e.g. MBA, PhD, etc.) in business administration, computer science or STEM-related field preferred
  • 5+ years of experience in hands-on software design and deployment in either a professional services or in-house systems administration role
  • 2 years of demonstrated impact in a product management and/or solutions architecture role or business consulting experience as a business analyst or associate
  • Creative thinker; ability to work with and translate between technical and business team members while adhering to user-centered design principles
  • Passion for commercial excellence including sales growth and pricing optimization
  • Strong organizational, process and project management skills
  • Excellent problem-solving skills

Who You'll Work With

You will be based in our Lisbon or Wroclaw office as part of our Product & Technology and client service teams. You will help in developing and delivering digital solutions that enable McKinsey clients globally to achieve commercial excellence. You?ll work closely with our solution leaders, technology leaders, product developers, data scientists and client service teams to develop and deliver innovative new digital solutions for our clients. Founded in 2007, Periscope® by McKinsey enables better commercial decisions by uncovering actionable insights. The Periscope platform combines world leading intellectual property, prescriptive analytics, and cloud based tools to provide more than 25 solutions focused on commercial excellence including sales, pricing, customer insights and marketing. Periscope experts work closely with clients to embed these solutions into operational IT environments and work closely with McKinsey?s Marketing & Sales consultants to transform client business processes to deliver revenue growth both now and in the future. Periscope has a presence in 26 locations across 16 countries with a team of 350+ IT and business professionals and a network of 300+ experts. To learn more about how Periscope?s solutions and experts are helping businesses continually drive better performance, visit http://www.periscope-solutions.com/

What You'll Do

You will play a key role in designing, developing and delivering new product features to clients in shaping the overall product roadmap of Periscope solutions. In this role, you will be responsible for designing and launching standardized support processes for solutions. You will specifically focus on B2C applications including sales and pricing applications. You will convert best practice analytic insights into operational systems by leading new functionality in the Periscope platform, configuring industry-leading platforms (e.g., Salesforce.com, Microsoft Dynamics, Anaplan) and by creating innovative business intelligence workspaces (e.g. Tableau, Alteryx). You will work closely with clients and client service teams to deploy these solutions at clients while maintaining a broad view of backlog and roadmap. You will work closely with internal and external stakeholders to capture feedback on how our tools are used and potential improvements to products and our support processes.