Who You'll Work With

You are someone who thrives in a high-performance environment, bringing a growth mindset and entrepreneurial spirit to tackle meaningful challenges that have a real impact.

In return for your drive, determination, and curiosity, we’ll provide the resources, mentorship, and opportunities to help you quickly broaden your expertise, grow into a well-rounded professional, and contribute to work that truly makes a difference.

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. 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. Plus, you’ll have the opportunity to learn from exceptional colleagues with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
• Exceptional 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.
  
  

Your Impact

You will be part of McKinsey’s Ethics and Compliance (E&C) function and will be based in the United States. The E&C function’s mission is to manage risks to our firm, our clients, and our people, while also enabling our firm’s client impact and innovation. The E&C function is a globally integrated team within the second line of defense of our firm.

McKinsey's E&C program is thoughtfully designed, strategically structured, and empowered to function effectively in practice. It emphasizes a zero-tolerance approach to misconduct and incorporates clear policies, procedures, training, monitoring and consequence management to ensure seamless integration into our firm’s operations and workforce. You will be a member of the Client and Regulatory Compliance pillar, which is responsible for instilling trust that our firm serves clients and communities with integrity and adheres to regulatory requirements.

This role reports to the Director of Compliance – Life Sciences.

In this role, you will lead the identification and mitigation of ethics and compliance-associated risks for delivery of projects in Life Sciences, working closely with client service teams that are engaged in day-to-day delivery. You will drive day-to-day E&C monitoring activities for Life Sciences projects, including compliance with contractual terms, regulatory requirements, guardrails, documentation retention requirements and any remediation plans.

You will support the development and maintenance of a targeted domain of policies, procedures and practices for identifying, managing and reporting on ethics and compliance risks associated with client service within the Life Sciences practices. This may include requirements associated with the applicable federal health care program requirements, other relevant healthcare regulations, and any professional standards applicable to Life Sciences projects.

Additionally, you will lead strategic and operational initiatives to monitor firm processes related to project scope and deliverable review throughout the lifecycle of projects, working closely with client service teams, client service risk, and the legal department across Life Sciences projects.

A key responsibility will be to lead specific aspects of the day-to-day E&C monitoring activities in Life Sciences projects, including documentation requirements and any remediation plans.

As part of the role, you will synthesize data into insights to provide input for regular reporting to internal and external audiences on ethics and compliance matters associated with Life Sciences projects.

Additionally, you will provide guidance on E&C related training and communications for client delivery teams within the Life Sciences practices, including related to applicable industry regulatory requirements. To support this, you will collaborate on the development of training content and will build reports on adherence to training and other requirements by client delivery teams within the Life Sciences practices.

As a member of the Client and Regulatory Compliance team within the E&C function, you will contribute as a thought partner while also managing key organizational, operational, or strategic initiatives, as appropriate.

You will be required to engage in regionally focused initiatives, such as infusing our integrity agenda, under the direction and coordination of our regional E&C leaders, the purpose of which is to raise awareness of and further our firm’s E&C program, and other agreed-upon supporting activities in your region or location.

Collaboration is a key aspect of this role. You will facilitate collaboration with a cross-functional and senior stakeholder group (e.g., Legal, Risk) across our firm in a timely and efficient manner. You will also facilitate collaboration with regulatory compliance experts to shape our regulatory and E&C program-related obligations and ensure these needs are effectively translated into conflicts of interest processes.

Finally, you will play a critical role in sustaining and evolving our E&C program and upholding our commitment to integrity and lawful practices.

Your Qualifications and Skills

• Bachelor's degree required, advanced degree(s) and/or applicable professional certifications (e.g., Juris Doctor or CPA) preferred
• 5+ years of life sciences and/or healthcare industry experience; prior background in implementing holistic risk and legal/regulatory compliance programs preferred
• Working knowledge of US federal and state laws and regulations in life sciences and healthcare, including fraud, waste, and abuse laws
• Demonstrates an entrepreneurial mindset to progress on ambiguous problems and see them through to resolution
• Outstanding written and oral communication skills in English, with the ability to adapt messaging for different audiences and craft cohesive storylines and communications
• Influences and engages with all types of audiences to cultivate trust-based, peer-counselor relationships
• Builds trust-based relationships with leaders within and outside of the team; collaborates generously with others and is sought after as a key thought partner
• Drives outcomes on cross-functional and complex topics and possesses exceptional organizational and project management skills
• Exhibits highest levels of discretion and judgment in safeguarding confidential materials
• Fosters a collaborative, respectful, and inclusive environment for all colleagues