Senior Business Impact Manager: Private Capital, Europe and M&A, Europe

Oliver Wyman; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Oliver Wyman as a Senior Business Impact Manager in London, where you'll play a central role in strategic and commercial development within Private Capital and M&A practices. Oversee operational processes, build trusted relationships, and contribute significantly to the long-term success of the organization. With a focus on leadership and collaboration, you'll be crucial in implementing strategies and managing complex projects in a dynamic consulting environment. Ideal candidates will bring 4-8 years of experience from professional services, complemented by strong analytical and interpersonal skills.

Qualifications

• 4-8 years experience in professional services, notably management consulting.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience in dealing with confidential and critical business issues.

Responsibilities

• Develop and leverage trusted relationships with practice leadership
• Take responsibility for strategic topics and commercial activities
• Manage day-to-day running of practices and business operations

Skills

Stakeholder communication

Strategic decision making

Leadership

Relationship building

Analytical skills

Education

Strong academic credentials

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

Job description

Senior Business Impact Manager: Private Capital, Europe and M&A, Europe

Senior Business Impact Manager: Private Capital, Europe and M&A, Europe

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

• 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.

To learn more, please follow us on Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter: OliverWyman. www.oliverwyman.com/careers

Marsh & McLennan Companies and its Affiliates are EOE Minority/Female/Disability/Vet/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity employers.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Business Development and General Business

• Industries

  Business Consulting and Services

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