Third Party Vendor Risk Specialist – Supplier Risk

You will be part of Optimize, McKinsey’s global third party management organization, enhancing and protecting the firm’s resources and reputation by making responsible buying easy and creating leading solutions and experiences across our third party ecosystem.    

We are hiring a Specialist within the Supplier Risk Strategy pillar of Optimize’s Supplier Risk & Social Responsibility team. This team leads and oversees the firm’s global supplier risk management program across risk domains. You will work closely with a global cross-functional team and report to the Senior Manager of Supplier Risk Strategy, to manage a global supplier onboarding program, and technology. You will be based out of the Philadelphia,  Atlanta, Denver, Miramar, Tampa, or Washington DC office.  

You will be responsible for managing the risk-based processes that will enable an efficient and effective end-to-end supplier onboarding program and user experience. This includes the ongoing development and implementation of McKinsey’s supplier risk framework and delivering risk programs to achieve excellence in managing supplier onboarding risk.  

You will foster strong partnership and collaborate regularly with global firm functions and risk teams including Finance, Compliance, Sanctions, Data Privacy/Security, Sourcing and Legal. You will work with Supplier Operations team to ensure effective risk management, timely risk escalations and training for ensuring governance, for overseeing that risk is being appropriately analyzed, and for raising issues and escalations to the related stakeholders, with recommendations for resolution.    

You will play a leading role in continually improving the risk management capabilities, technologies, data sources and documentation of the supplier onboarding program. You will support the development of standards, reporting and other program materials and documentation while ensuring that the supplier onboarding program processes are auditable. You will partner with the broader Supplier Risk team to foster and coach a risk first awareness culture at McKinsey. 

You will support supplier incident response, coordinating with the incident response team to ensure relationship management, prompt communication, investigation and risk mitigation. 

You will stay ahead of risk issues and drive special projects that address emerging risks, market developments and/or internal customer needs. You can expect to manage a broad range of interesting projects on a global level.