Vadim Place

Consultant at McKinsey & Company

Belgium

About

Experience

  • Junior Specialist at McKinsey & Company
    Mar 2025 - Present · 1 yr 4 mos

    Operations Excellence Program (OEP)

  • Fuel Cell System Engineer at Toyota Motor Europe
    Sep 2023 - Jan 2025 · 1 yr 5 mos

    -Facilitated cooperation, managed project schedule and work packages, followed completion of deliverables in a consortium of industrial and academic partners to reduce manufacturing cost of hydrogen storage vessels -Received training in lean manufacturing (Toyota Production System, kaizen methods, etc.) through the Graduate Development Program: rotated as team member, team leader and group leader at a manufacturing plant (Toyota Motor Manufacturing France) -Supervised contractors and interns -Secured internal budget and defined scope of work for research projects on fiber-optic and quantum sensing technologies

  • Product Management Intern at Sensirion
    May 2022 - Jul 2022 · 3 mos

    -Conducted business development and designed commercial documentation MEMS-based sensors

  • Intern at United Nations
    Mar 2022 - Apr 2022 · 2 mos

    -Improved technical cooperation between ECOWAS countries to enable implementation of regional trade agreements

  • Student Researcher at ETH Zürich
    Jun 2020 - Sep 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos

    -Research on composites for soft-robotics led to a publication (Advanced Materials) -Research on electrochemical CO2 conversion