Senior Delivery Manager - Orphoz

Questa posizione è in McKinsey & Company Italy

Il processo di selezione sarà interamente gestito McKinsey & Company Italy.

Questa opportunità è disponibile in Milan - Italy, Rome - Italy.

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Who You Will Work With 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.

What You Will Do

You will lead and deliver complex business transformations for our clients, including digital and AI transformations, operational excellence, restructuring and turnaround execution, post‑merger implementation, and strategic operations initiatives. You will work deeply across clients’ businesses, partnering closely with senior leadership teams to build the capabilities, systems, governance, and processes required to deliver bottom-line results and ensure they are sustained. You will lead, coach, and motivate integrated teams of Orphoz colleagues and client leaders to drive execution and measurable impact. You will act as a subject‑matter expert, combining hands‑on transformation experience with strong problem‑solving capabilities to derive insights and translate them into practical, executable solutions. You will lead teams of Orphoz consultants throughout their projects, partnering with the McKinsey strategy teams daily. Orphoz is a distinct offering within our McKinsey Transformation practice, focused on transformation execution and value creation - turning strategy into results. We stay through delivery partnering with clients until impact is achieved and embedded. We have a Global community of 500+ transformation professionals across McKinsey; 250+ in Orphoz across 12 European countries. At Orphoz, we specialize in helping leading private-sector organizations execute complex transformation programs. We turn strategy into practice, focusing on operational excellence, digital transformation, lean management, and more—using agile, efficient, and highly engaging methods that deliver real, sustainable impact. We plan and deliver business transformation / business change projects together with our clients, helping them capture their full potential. We know what determines the success of large projects and what can ensure lasting implementation success. We combine strategic and operational project management, with strong execution skills and an understanding of the specific demands of each industry. We measure our success by achieving the goals we set with our clients.

Your Background

• Master’s degree, with a strong record of academic achievement
• 8+ years of experience in project delivery and project management / PMO implementation, preferably in a consulting environment
• Proven people leadership experience, including building and developing high performing teams
• You are driven by creating long-lasting impact, and enjoy working with people to achieve results
• Strong, pragmatic problem-solving skills
• Proven experience in Business change and transformation/TO, including operational Project Management and delivery/implementation, and operational excellence (e.g., lean optimisation, process optimization, service ops, turnaround, service redesign)
• Demonstrated entrepreneurial spirit, dedication, creativity and a passion for overcoming any challenge to get things done
• Solid understanding and some demonstrated knowledge of project management delivery using related tools and methods including MS Project, Prince 2, Agile or similar
• Functional experience with AI-related solutions (e.g., analytics, automation, AI-enabled tools) is highly desirable
• Experience working in the space of Consumer/Retail, Advanced Industries or Mid-sized enterprises is advantageous
• You have ability to travel, with the realistic expectation to be on client site Monday – Thursday
• Fluent level language skills in Italian and English, both written and verbally

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