Bain & Company Can someone tell me more about the project manager role in consulting? Is it a parallel path to analyst/associate/EM route? If not, is it equivalent to a particular title?
Does it make sense for FANG program managers to join MBB as project managers to gain some consulting experience? Would I be able to interview for EM role without consulting experience (YOE: 2 years)? If not, associate role?
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Project manager is also known as project leader at bcg or engagement manager at mckinsey. The manager role manages a project which 90% of the time will have a finish line mostly 4 to six months after its start. The project leader, manager etc, contrary to a FANG company, will mostly focus on the team bringing about analyses of topics they don’t have much time to become specialists on so it needs to be very well structured. The project leader many times will act more as a quality assurance for the company as well as facilitating interactions between team and client, but most times the heavy conversation with clients will be done by partners, which, at a fang would be someone like a director. Another difference is that consulting does not use a management style that follows through a product or company, not like a PM. A PM is always focusing on one set of metrics and development process sometimes for one year, two years, so they both roles really need to structure strategy and delivery differently
No such thing as project manager at McKinsey. Only BA, Associate, EM. And with two years experience, you’d only be able to interview as a BA, not even associate, let alone EM. You need 5 years or MBA to interview for associate
Yea you right it did sound that way