Marsh McLennan

Marsh McLennan

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

Atlanta - Lenox · Senior

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About the role

  • This role will help translate growth ambitions and leadership priorities into action.
  • This is a hybrid role that will require a presence in the office three days per week.

Responsibilities

  • 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.
  • Integration Support:
  • 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.
  • 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.

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.
  • Skills and Attributes:
  • 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.

Skills

  • Strategic and execution-oriented:
  • Moves fluidly between defining the question, doing the analysis, and driving implementation.
  • Curious about markets, competitors, clients, capabilities and new avenues for growth.
  • Connects people, ideas, and information across organizational boundaries and brings structure to complex initiatives.
  • 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:
  • Can influence senior stakeholders without formal authority and operate effectively in a matrixed organization.
  • Proactive and independent:
  • Commercially minded:
  • A strong integrator:

Compensation

  • With annual revenue over $24 billion and more than 90,000 colleagues in 130 countries, Marsh helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective.

Benefits

  • Lead development of the business-side strategic rationale and business case, covering capability fit, market attractiveness, strategic benefits, potential synergies, and key risks
  • 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.

Company info

  • Oliver Wyman
  • Description:
  • Oliver Wyman advises clients across a broad spectrum of strategy and actuarial challenges.
  • We are a rapidly growing practice with offices across the globe.
  • We bring a combination of broad-based expertise with specialized knowledge, allowing us to provide independent, objective advice in the three primary areas of risk and insurance: Life, Health and Property/Casualty.
  • As a business of Marsh (NYSE: MRSH), we work alongside the world's leading experts across risk, reinsurance and capital, people and investments, and management consulting.
  • Together with Marsh Risk, Guy Carpenter, and Mercer, we help organizations build resilience and competitive advantages from every angle.
  • With annual revenue over $24 billion and more than 90,000 colleagues in 130 countries, 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.
  • Growth - both organic and inorganic - is central to the long-term ambitions of our Insurance, Asset Management (IAM), and Actuarial (OWA) businesses.
  • Acquiring complementary businesses, in combination with organic and geographic expansion, is a critical component to our long-term growth goals and future success.
  • Delivering on that ambition takes more than deal execution.
  • It requires disciplined prioritization of the leadership agenda, rigorous program management, thoughtful integration of the businesses we acquire, and the ability to convert strategy into measurable outcomes across practices, geographies, and functions.
  • To support this, we are seeking a Senior Manager, Growth and Strategic Initiatives.
  • Job Overview:
  • The Senior Manager, Growth and Strategic Initiatives is a high exposure, global role and a strategic partner to the Chief Growth Officer, the Chief of Staff to the Chief Growth Officer and the Head of Platform & Transformation in guiding and facilitating the IAM & OWA growth agenda.
  • The role drives a portfolio of priorities spanning growth and strategic projects, including: identifying, evaluating, and integrating potential acquisition targets; working closely with cross-functional teams, including corporate development, finance, legal, HR, and operations, to ensure successful execution of acquisitions; leading business-side integration planning and governance once transactions close; and supporting other strategic projects on 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 important initiatives from concept through execution.
  • There is no option to be fully remote.
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