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Jorge Amar

Senior PartnerMiami

Works with telecommunications companies to drive the changes needed to improve overall customer experience while also controlling costs

Jorge leads McKinsey’s digital customer-care group globally. In this capacity, he seeks to transform the customer-facing parts of operations, helping to deliver stronger performance and better service.

As part of this work, Jorge helps executives take an outside-in view of their current customer-care performance and weigh the value of future opportunities. He designs new strategies and architects end-state solutions that take advantage of digital platforms. He then helps guide implementation, supporting clients in building capabilities quickly.

Jorge first joined McKinsey in Buenos Aires in 2007 and has been based in Stamford since 2012. He recently relocated to Miami as of 2022. He has developed deep expertise in customer care through his service to major telecommunications companies across markets in Latin America, North America, and Western Europe.

Examples of his recent client work include the following:

  • migrating a major US telecommunications company to a 100 percent self-service digital experience
  • designing and implementing a cost-reduction initiative for a Latin American telecommunication concern that captured impact within 6 months while still improving customer satisfaction
  • advising a major multiregional company on outsourcing its call center operations, helping to select the optimal business process outsourcing partner
  • enhancing the customer experience for a major Latin American telecommunications firm by redesigning its service delivery model across its stores, call centers, and digital channels
  • defining a growth strategy for a major technology company in North and South America, identifying key initiatives to lead organizational and operational change

Interested in sharing best practices, Jorge publishes actively on trends in customer care and in digital operations.

Published work

From promising to productive: Real results from gen AI in services,” McKinsey & Company, August 2024

The AI-native telco: Radical transformation to thrive in turbulent times,” McKinsey & Company, February 2023

Smart scheduling: How to solve workforce-planning challenges with AI,” McKinsey & Company, February 2022

AI-driven operations forecasting in data-light environments,” McKinsey & Company, February 2022

How AI-driven nudges can transform an operation’s performance,” McKinsey & Company, February 2022

Customers’ lives are digital—but is your customer care still analog?,” McKinsey & Company, June 2017

Overcoming Obstacles to Digital Customer Care,” Harvard Business Review, May 30, 2017

The surprising truth about which countries lead in digital,” McKinsey & Company, September 2016

Winning the expectations game in customer care,” McKinsey & Company, September 2016

Past experience

Tenaris
Cost analyst

Accenture
Senior analyst

Education

Harvard Business School
MBA (Baker Scholar)

University of Buenos Aires
BA, accounting