Oliver Wyman - Senior Business Impact Manager: Private Capital, Europe and M&A, Europe - London[...]

Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc.; London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Marsh & McLennan is seeking a Senior Business Impact Manager for its Oliver Wyman team in London. This role involves supporting business development, orchestrating practice staff, and managing day-to-day operations with a focus on Private Capital and M&A practices. Candidates should have strong leadership skills, a consulting background, and excellent stakeholder communication abilities.

Benefits

Flexible Work Environment

Professional Development Opportunities

Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives

Qualifications

• 4-8 years of experience in professional services.
• Experience in management consulting is highly desirable.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, especially Excel and PowerPoint.

Responsibilities

• Develop trusted relationships with practice leadership.
• Manage complex activities while driving strategic decision-making.
• Lead initiatives to enhance operational efficiency.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder Communication

Data Analysis

Relationship Management

Strategic Thinking

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree (preferable)

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

Job description

Oliver Wyman - Senior Business Impact Manager: Private Capital, Europe and M&A, Europe - London

Oliver Wyman - Senior Business Impact Manager: Private Capital, Europe and M&A, Europe - London

Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc. London, United Kingdom

Oliver Wyman - Senior Business Impact Manager: Private Capital, Europe and M&A, Europe - London

Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc. London, United Kingdom

Oliver Wyman - Senior Business Impact Manager: Private Capital, Europe and M&A, Europe - London

Company:
Oliver Wyman

Description:

The Opportunity:

The Europe Business Impact Team (BIT) supports the growth of Oliver Wyman Europe by seamlessly enabling regional business development and management activities.

The Senior Business Impact Manager is a central role in the strategic and commercial development, operation and community building of the PC and M&A practices. The role effectively orchestrates practice staff (Partners, affiliated consultants, specialists) and support provided by the infrastructure functions of Oliver Wyman (Human Capital, Finance, Marketing, Knowledge Services, ...). The role provides support to the Regional Practice Heads in managing the day-to-day affairs of the practice and is a go-to-person for all colleagues for practice-related topics.

In addition, the Senior Business Impact Manager role is a leadership position within the Business Impact Team working with the Head of Europe Business Impact Team and other Senior Business Impact Managers to develop the services provided by the function, and manage the team day-to-day.

Note: Although the initial deployment of this Business Impact Manager role will be in support of our Private Capital and M&A practices, this deployment may change in the future according to business need.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and leverage trusted relationships with practice leadership and teams, as well as relevant infrastructure leaders and teams
• Act as 'business partner' and trusted advisor to leadership + broader Partner group
• Take responsibility for activities that are important to the long-term success and smooth day-to-day running of the practices, including where these have a high degree of complexity (not exhaustive)
  • Strategic topics, including
    • Leading development and implementation of strategies for commercial, corporate, or people development
    • Development of a new practice or market
    • Leading periodic planning activities
    • Leveraging data and analyses to advise and drive decision making
    • Defining and managing business governance
  • Commercial activities, including
    • Key account planning
    • High impact opportunity management
    • Pipeline management
  • Business operations, including
    • Preparation and facilitation of internal meetings
    • Tracking and follow up of action items
    • Management of business to-do list, prioritizing tasks and initiatives
    • Execution of people management processes such as objective setting cycles
    • Execution of compliance processes etc.
  • Engagement and communication
• Manage or support ad-hoc initiatives according to the needs of the practice
• Engage in people development (within or beyond BIT), e.g. manage junior team members, coach colleagues, be a mentor etc.
• Identify and implement improvements including in strategic, commercial or operational processes, enhancing efficiency and effectiveness in day-to-day activities.
• Show leadership within the Business Impact Team and beyond e.g. team coordination, L&D, events, best practice sharing and standardization, M&A, ...
• Provide coverage where needed

Experience Required:

• The ideal candidate will possess 4-8 years of experience in professional services; experience at a leading management consulting firm highly desirable
• Experience dealing with confidential and business critical issues

Skills and Attributes:

• Seen as a leader within the BIT and the broader business, while still embodying a servant mentality - sought out for advice as trusted advisor by other colleagues, Partners or Principals
• Challenges and influences thinking and contributes to strategic decision making; acts as a thought partner to leadership
• Confident, senior stakeholder communication skills, with ability to tailor for different audiences and to influence others
• Deep understanding of Oliver Wyman and how the business works, as well as market factors and competitive dynamics
• Is a leader in sharing best practices across the BIT
• Maintains a diverse firm-wide network, has strong relationships with key stakeholders, and is able to activate network effectively to get things done
• High drive and self-motivation, ownership mentality
• Independently manages competing demands, ability to own complex processes
• Trusted team player, open and respectful communication, effectively collaborates with and directs colleagues within and beyond the BIT
• Proactively identifies opportunities across OW to deliver impact, acts as a change agent
• An inclusive leader advocating for equality, diversity and inclusion
• Role model for self-improvement and coach/mentor for others to build their skills and learning
• Bonus: Understands the dynamics of private capital or corporate mergers and acquisitions.

Technical skills

• Quantitative skills, and proficiency in Microsoft Office suite (in particular Excel and PowerPoint)
• Strong academic credentials, excellent written and verbal communication skills in English. Further languages helpful, but not required.

Why join us at Oliver Wyman?

At Oliver Wyman, we lead with heart - we love what we do and have fun while we do it! We also strive for breakthroughs by questioning, seeking diverse perspectives, and finding powerful and sustainable solutions. If you share these values and want to work as one and own our impact at the same time, be brave and achieve the amazing with us!

• We're individuals who are self-starting, motivated, energetic, entrepreneurial about what we do
• 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
• We value an environment where every member of Oliver Wyman is encouraged and expected to voice his or her opinion
• We believe that to create a true meritocracy we need to remove artificial barriers to opportunity
• 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.

Oliver Wyman, a business of Marsh McLennan (NYSE: MMC), is a management consulting firm combining deep industry knowledge with specialized expertise to help clients optimize their business, improve operations and accelerate performance. Marsh McLennan is a global leader in risk, strategy and people, advising clients in 130 countries across four businesses: Marsh, Guy Carpenter, Mercer and Oliver Wyman. With annual revenue of $24 billion and more than 90,000 colleagues, Marsh McLennan helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective. For more information, visit oliverwyman.com, or follow on LinkedIn and X.

Marsh McLennan is committed to embracing a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people and embrace diversity of age background, civil partnership status, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, gender orientation or expression, gender reassignment, marital status, nationality, parental status, personal or social status, political affiliation, race, religion and beliefs, sex/gender, sexual orientation or expression, skin color, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We are an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments in accordance with applicable law to any candidate with a disability to allow them to fully participate in the recruitment process. If you have a disability that may require reasonable adjustments, please contact us at [e-mail].

Marsh McLennan is committed to hybrid work, which includes the flexibility of working remotely and the collaboration, connections and professional development benefits of working together in the office. All Marsh McLennan colleagues are expected to be in their local office or working onsite with clients at least three days per week. Office-based teams will identify at least one "anchor day" per week on which their full team will be together in person.

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