Company:

Oliver Wyman

Description:

At Oliver Wyman, a Marsh (NYSE: MRSH) business, we bring deep industry insight, bold innovation, and a collaborative approach that cuts through complexity to help organizations navigate their most defining transformative moments. 

For more information, visit oliverwyman.com, or follow us on LinkedIn and X. 

This is a 16-month Fixed-Term Contract opportunity.

Role Purpose

The Business Impact Manager plays a central role in the strategic, commercial and operational development of Oliver Wyman’s Transportation and Advanced Industrials (TAI) practice in Europe. Working closely with practice leadership as a valued advisor and connector across the business, the role turns priorities and analysis into coordinated action, strengthens how the practice operates and helps enable its long-term success.

Although the initial deployment of this Business Impact Manager role will be in support of the Transportation and Advanced Industrials practice, this deployment may change in the future according to business need.

Why Join Us

• Play a central role in the strategic, commercial and operational development of the TAI practice in Europe.

• Work closely with practice leadership, Partners and colleagues across the firm, gaining exposure to both the commercial priorities and day-to-day management of a major European practice.

• Build experience across strategy implementation, commercial management, decision support, practice operations and cross-functional leadership.

• Enjoy a vibrant culture with regular social events and activities, plus great benefits like up to €100/month public transport reimbursement, JobRad, Wellpass, and more.

Meet the Team

• Reports to: Senior Business Impact Manager

• Day-to-day collaborators: Regional Practice Head, TAI Partners and practice colleagues, Business Impact Team colleagues, and teams across Human Capital, Finance, Marketing and Knowledge Services.

• People management: Manager Input Required - confirm whether this role includes direct people management responsibility.

How This Role Will Contribute to Team Success

• Enable the TAI practice to translate strategic, commercial and people priorities into coordinated plans, analysis and follow-through.

• Strengthen the smooth day-to-day running of the practice by connecting leadership, practice teams and infrastructure functions and improving the effectiveness of key processes.

• Contribute to the wider Business Impact Team by leading internal initiatives, sharing practices that work and helping fellow team members succeed.

Your Day-to-Day

• Strategic and decision support: Partner with practice leadership to develop and implement commercial, corporate and people strategies, periodic planning and strategic analyses. Provide timely, decision-relevant insight and help ensure agreed priorities translate into effective action and follow-through.

• Commercial effectiveness: Help drive practice growth through key account planning, high-impact opportunity management and pipeline management. Connect the right practice and infrastructure colleagues around priority opportunities, creating clear commercial visibility, disciplined follow-through and coordinated execution.

• Practice operations and governance: Enable the effective day-to-day running of the practice, from leadership meetings and action tracking to people-management cycles, compliance processes and practice communications. Identify opportunities to improve strategic, commercial and operational processes so priorities remain clear and recurring activities run effectively.

• Practice initiatives and collaboration: Act as a trusted point of connection across practice leadership, practice teams and infrastructure functions. Lead or support priority initiatives as practice needs evolve, bringing the right stakeholders together and maintaining momentum through to delivery.

• Business Impact Team leadership and continuous improvement: Contribute to the wider Business Impact Team by leading selected initiatives, sharing practices that work and supporting colleagues through learning, coaching and constructive feedback. Help turn useful ideas and lessons into practical improvements in how the team works.

Skills & What You Bring to the Team

• 4+ years of experience in professional services, with an understanding of how a consulting or similarly complex professional-services business operates.

• Experience managing multiple projects and priorities, solving business problems and delivering to tight deadlines.

• Experience using quantitative analysis and business presentations to provide insight and support leadership decision-making.

• Ability to build trusted stakeholder relationships and communicate clearly in written and spoken English across different audiences; proficiency in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and AI tools.

• Experience handling confidential and business-critical matters, working independently and collaborating across teams in changing business environments.

What Will Make You Stand Out

• Experience at a leading management consulting firm.

• Understanding of transportation and advanced industrials industry sectors.

How To Apply

• Submit CV

• Process: Our selection process typically includes an initial recruiter conversation (15-30 min.), followed by interviews and assessments with the hiring team, where you will get to know us overall.

• To ensure confidentiality, recording, transcription, screen capture, or use of AI/automated note-taking tools during interviews is strictly prohibited; by joining, you agree to these terms.

• Unauthorized capture may result in interview termination, disqualification, and mandatory deletion of any recorded material. We reserve all rights and remedies under applicable law.

Living Our Values

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 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!

At OW, we're committed to building a diverse team, and we recognize that uncertainty about the relevance of one’s qualification and experience may deter some talented candidates from applying. If you feel you don't meet every requirement, we'd love to hear from you nonetheless! If you require adjustments during the recruitment process, we are happy to discuss it with you.

Find more about our Values and Firm Inclusion Stance.

Oliver Wyman is a business of Marsh (NYSE: MRSH), a global leader in risk, reinsurance and capital, people and investments, and management consulting, advising clients in 130 countries. With annual revenue of over $27 billion and more than 95,000 colleagues, Marsh helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective. For more information, visit oliverwyman.com, or follow us on LinkedIn and X. 

Marsh is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people and embrace diversity of age, background, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, gender orientation or expression, 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.

Marsh offers hybrid working arrangements that provide both the flexibility of mobile working and the benefits for collaboration, personal connections and professional development of working in the office. Employees are authorized to work remotely. If needed, some teams also schedule weekly “anchor days” where the entire team meets in person at the site office.