Oliver Wyman - Senior Manager, Growth and Strategic Initiatives - Atlanta

Marsh McLennan • Atlanta, GA

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

Oliver Wyman is seeking a Senior Manager, Growth and Strategic Initiatives to join their global team. This high-exposure role will serve as a strategic partner to senior leadership, guiding and facilitating the Insurance, Asset Management (IAM), and Actuarial (OWA) growth agenda. The position involves translating growth ambitions and leadership priorities into actionable plans. The Senior Manager will drive a portfolio of priorities including identifying, evaluating, and integrating potential acquisition targets, collaborating with cross-functional teams (corporate development, finance, legal, HR, operations) for successful execution, leading business-side integration planning and governance, and supporting other strategic growth projects. This role requires an individual who can operate effectively with senior leaders, navigate ambiguity, connect stakeholders, and independently drive initiatives from concept to execution. The role is hybrid, requiring three days per week in the office.

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.

Benefits

• Marsh 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, 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, veteran status (including protected veterans), or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
• If you have a need that requires accommodation, please let us know by contacting [email protected].
• Marsh 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior