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Who we are

Oliver Wyman is a global leader in management consulting. With offices in 70 cities across 30 countries, Oliver Wyman combines deep industry knowledge with specialized expertise in strategy, operations, risk management, and organization transformation. The firm has more than 5,000 professionals around the world who work with clients to optimize their business, improve their operations and risk profile, and accelerate their organizational performance to seize the most attractive opportunities. Oliver Wyman is a wholly owned subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan Companies [NYSE: MMC]. Twitter @OliverWyman.

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What makes us a great place to work

As part of our global, entrepreneurial team, you’ll do meaningful work from day one. We’re looking for individuals who challenge the norm, and constantly strive to build something new for the firm and the world around us. With our careers, there's no "one size fits all." We hire exceptional people and help them thrive through a built-in support network, flexible career paths, extensive training curriculums, and no artificial barriers to advancement. We invite you to bring your full, authentic self to work. Enjoy working alongside diverse and down-to-earth colleagues who do serious work, but don’t take themselves too seriously.

Practice Overview:

Oliver Wyman's Financial Services practice helps the world's leading financial institutions address their most significant challenges to shape the future of the industry. We have an unparalleled understanding of the evolving market structures, economics, and strategic and regulatory trends across all segments of the financial services sector. Our distinct approach is characterized by deep specialization and rigorous fact-based analysis.

We are searching for highly qualified Engagement Manager candidates, for strategy consulting roles working broadly across financial services for our business and are looking for candidates with relevant work experience preferably in Financial Services and/or Management consulting. Experience could be from working at financial institutions or supporting them in consulting capacity.

What you will do:

Engagement Managers are the on-scene leaders who run our projects day to day. You will lead the team through an efficient and effective problem-solving process from initial thought process through convergence on a solution. You will ensure that recommendations are correct, practical, sensible, relevant and cohesive. It’s a role that demands thought leadership at the strategic level – and command of all the technical and operational details of execution. You will need great communication skills and the ability to forge strong relationships.
• Managing the execution of individual project modules. This typically includes developing hypotheses, managing data collection, model creation and analyses, conducting primary and secondary research, creatively tackling information limitations, and surfacing insights.
• Supporting our Partner group in project delivery through accurate and high-quality case execution
• Owning and developing executive client relationships, presenting to a wide range of audiences, and working day-to-day with clients and other stakeholders.
• For Manager hires, managing and developing the capabilities of junior consulting staff.

What you will bring:

The Engagement Manager position offers excellent career and growth opportunities for talented, highly motivated professionals with significant prior experience.
• A minimum of 6-8 years, ideally with a top-tier strategy consulting firm or project-based, team-oriented environments.
• Track record of leading and managing teams or work streams and delivering against tight deadlines in fast paced and demanding environments
• Strong background in strategic problem solving with demonstrable analytical skills
• Financial services industry knowledge, breadth across or depth within one of our practice areas is preferred.
• Ability to apply content knowledge for thought leadership in project execution, develop new intellectual capital to support business development activities, and for Manager and Principal hires to lead these activities
• Outstanding communication skills; confidence in presenting to senior executives
• Undergraduate and/or advanced degree from a top academic program
• Willingness to travel

Equal Opportunity

Marsh and McLennan is committed to embracing a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people regardless of their sex/gender, marital or parental status, ethnic origin, nationality, age, background, disability, sexual orientation, and gender identity
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