Oliver Wyman - Senior Manager, Growth and Strategic Initiatives

Marsh McLennan•Boston, MA

1d•$150,000 - $200,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Oliver Wyman is seeking a Senior Manager, Growth and Strategic Initiatives to play a strategic role in guiding and facilitating the Insurance, Asset Management (IAM), and Actuarial (OWA) businesses' growth agenda. This high-exposure, global role will partner with senior leadership to translate growth ambitions into actionable plans. The position involves managing a portfolio of growth and strategic projects, including identifying, evaluating, and integrating potential acquisition targets. It requires close collaboration with cross-functional teams such as corporate development, finance, legal, HR, and operations to ensure successful execution of acquisitions and lead business-side integration planning. The role also supports other strategic projects within the growth agenda. This is a highly visible position for an individual who can operate effectively with senior leaders, navigate ambiguity, connect stakeholders across the organization, and independently drive initiatives from concept to execution. This is a hybrid role requiring three days per week in the office, with no fully remote option.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree and 7+ years of relevant experience, ideally in professional services, management consulting, corporate strategy, business operations, corporate development or a comparable environment.
3+ years working directly with or supporting C-suite or senior leadership teams.
Prior experience in M&A, corporate development, transaction diligence or post-merger integration; direct transaction execution experience is helpful but not required.
Demonstrated track record of managing complex, cross-functional initiatives from ideation and analysis through execution and measurable outcome.
Proven project and program management capability, including planning, milestone tracking, risk management and stakeholder reporting across multiple concurrent workstreams.
Strong PowerPoint and Excel capability, and comfort adopting new analytical and work-optimization tools.
Willingness to travel as needed to support the business.

Nice To Haves

Strategic and execution-oriented: Moves fluidly between defining the question, doing the analysis, and driving implementation.
Commercially minded: Curious about markets, competitors, clients, capabilities and new avenues for growth.
A strong integrator: Connects people, ideas, and information across organizational boundaries and brings structure to complex initiatives.
Analytically rigorous: Comfortable working with incomplete information, developing hypotheses, and turning analysis into actionable recommendations, including developing business cases and synthesizing quantitative and qualitative information into clear recommendations.
An exceptional communicator: Distills complexity into concise, persuasive narratives and polished materials for senior audiences. Outstanding written, oral and presentation skills.
Credible with senior stakeholders: Builds trust with Partners and executives and can constructively challenge thinking when appropriate. Can influence senior stakeholders without formal authority and operate effectively in a matrixed organization.
Proactive and independent: Anticipates what is needed, takes ownership and moves work forward without waiting for detailed direction.
Discreet and trustworthy: Brings a high level of integrity and professionalism to confidential and commercially sensitive work.

Responsibilities

Serve as the primary business-side coordinator for inorganic growth initiatives across IAM and OWA, in close partnership with Oliver Wyman and Marsh Corporate Development.
Identify and research acquisition and investment targets across all practices and geographies, drawing on market research, leadership networks, and collaboration with Corporate Development.
Lead development of the business-side strategic rationale and business case, covering capability fit, market attractiveness, strategic benefits, potential synergies, and key risks; manage any required internal approval processes.
Project manage the due diligence process on potential targets, coordinating business participation and assisting Corporate Development with market research, commercial analysis, risk assessment, and negotiation support.
Support senior leaders in developing and managing relationships with potential targets and strategic partners, as needed.
Partner with the functional teams responsible for executing detailed integration plans across Finance, HR, Legal, IT, Marketing, and Operations, holding the overall plan together and resolving cross-functional issues.
Coordinate commercial integration: client and pipeline alignment, cross-sell opportunities, capability positioning, and go-to-market messaging.
Track integration progress and acquisition outcomes against the original business case, escalating issues and helping leadership ensure the strategic rationale and expected business benefits are realized.
Partner with the Chief Growth Officer, Chief of Staff to the Chief Growth Officer, Head of Platform & Transformation, and other leaders to develop, prioritize, and execute strategic growth initiatives.
Lead high-priority strategic and operational projects focused on the growth agenda that require coordination across practices, geographies, and functions.
Act as a connector across teams, helping ensure growth priorities are understood and that functional expertise and resources are mobilized effectively.