Oliver Wyman - Operations Supply Chain – Principal

US063 Oliver Wyman, LLC; Toronto; On-site; CAD 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global consulting firm seeks an Operations Supply Chain Principal to manage individual project workstreams and support delivery through high-quality execution. The ideal candidate will have 4-7+ years of consulting experience in operations and strong analytical skills. This role offers excellent career growth opportunities in a collaborative team environment.

Benefits

Flexible career paths

Collaborative team environment

Opportunity for career breaks

Qualifications

• 4-7+ years of consulting experience in operations – in the industry and/or with consulting firms.
• Experience with a top tier management consulting firm preferred.
• Experience in leading or being part of improvement efforts in operations space.

Responsibilities

• Managing the execution of individual project workstreams.
• Synthesizing findings into written presentations.
• Supporting our Partner group in project delivery.

Skills

Operations experience in discreet or continuous manufacturing industries

Strong curiosity and continuous learning mentality

Strong problem structuring and analytical skills

Strategic thinking and attention to detail

Ability to work in teams and lead others

Refined written communication and oral presentation skills

Education

Certifications - Strong preference on CSCMP, APICS, or ISM

Tools

Tools / systems for supply chain optimization

Job description

Description :

Oliver Wyman - Operations Supply Chain – Principal

Job Specification

Practice Group : Operations, Energy, Industrials

Location : Chicago, New York, Boston, Dallas, Houston, Washington D.C., Toronto, San Francisco

Role : Operations Supply Chain – Principal

Practice Overview : Operations

We work with clients across industries to help them manage and optimize their operations through improving delivery and cost efficiency to become market leaders in their industry. We help them find strategic solutions to address the challenges they face, optimize their operating model to deliver the best service and increase the operational performance while controlling operating cost. We focus on developing solutions which can be immediately implemented in collaboration with clients’ teams and can rapidly bring visible and sustainable results.

Supply Chain Capability

Oliver Wyman develops innovative and impactful solutions to increase the performance and results of our clients supply chain processes and networks.

We support our clients along their end-to-end supply chain, helping them have greater visibility and solve their most critical supply chain issues. From raw material to production, distribution, and services, we partner with businesses across a broad range of industries and geographies to ensure their supply chain produces the best value and allows them to compete in the global marketplace.

We typically start assignments with strategic questions, but our client relationships extend way beyond PowerPoint decks. Throughout our projects, we help our customers build their own capabilities and upskill their workforce, ensuring their people can collaborate independently, efficiently, and that their teams have sufficient agility to swiftly cope with disruption.

To maximize value creation, we have developed a broad supply chain management toolkit, including artificial intelligence-driven tools, like our machine learning-based forecasting platform. We combine this with our deep project expertise and proven methods and approaches

Role

Our consulting roles offer excellent career and growth opportunities for talented, highly motivated professionals with relevant prior experience. As a professional member of our firm, your initial responsibilities will include :

• Managing the execution of individual project workstreams. This typically includes developing hypotheses; managing data collection, model creation and analyses; conducting primary and secondary research; creatively tackling information limitations; and surfacing insights
• Synthesizing findings into written presentations; reviewing and discussing with clients and other stakeholders
• Supporting our Partner group in project delivery through accurate and high-quality execution

Desired Skills and Experience

Operational :

Operations experience in discreet or continuous manufacturing industries

Experience across the operations – product development, planning, procurement, manufacturing, logistics, distribution – depth in any of these desired

Experience in leading or being part of improvement efforts in operations space

General :

Strong curiosity and continuous learning mentality

Strong problem structuring and analytical skills

Strategic thinking and attention to detail

Ability to work in teams and lead others

Refined written communication and oral presentation skills

Desired Capabilities :

Experience in tools / systems for supply chain optimization and IT-enablement preferred

Certifications - Strong preference on Certified Supply Chain Management Professional (CSCMP), American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS / ISCM) OR Institute for Supply Management (ISM)

Experience with proposal development, strong commercial instincts, and interest.

Work History :

Experience with a top tier management consulting firm preferred

4-7+ years of consulting experience in operations – in the industry and / or with consulting firms

Why work at Oliver Wyman?

Working as part of our global, entrepreneurial company, 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. At Oliver Wyman, there's no "one size fits all" - we hire exceptional people and help them thrive through a built-in support network, flexible career paths, and no artificial barriers to advancement. We have a collaborative, supportive and impactful team environment - we want you to bring your authentic self and enjoy working alongside diverse and down-to-earth colleagues who do serious work, but don't take themselves too seriously.

Our Values & Culture

We’re serious about making OW a rewarding, progressive, enjoyable, and balanced place to work.

Self-starters and free thinkers who work well in a team

We are individuals who are self-starting, motivated, energetic, entrepreneurial about what we do

Common aspiration, collective endeavor, shared success

We have the common aspiration to have an impact, leave a legacy and change the world. We have no interest in running a steady-state business. We want to build, grow and shape the environment around us

Straightforward, open, respectful interaction

We value an environment where every member of Oliver Wyman is encouraged and expected to voice his or her opinion

Opportunity without artificial barriers

We value merit and believe that to create a true meritocracy we need to remove artificial barriers to opportunity

Balanced lives

We value people whose lives balance work and non-work activities because we believe they are both more interesting colleagues and are able to make better contributions to the Firm. We push ourselves hard to deliver excellence, but we also work to extract the maximum benefit from the flexibility of a project-based business. We provide the ability to take career breaks for personal or family reasons. We fundamentally value each other’s time and are sensitive to how it is used. We are an output not input-based culture, have respect for people’s personal decisions, and believe that one's workload must be sustainable. We seek balance for ourselves and our colleagues.

How to Apply

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Oliver Wyman is an equal opportunityemployer.