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Careers at Oliver Wyman
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Oliver Wyman provides equal employment opportunity and treatment regardless of gender, color, race, ancestry, religion, natural origin, sexual orientation, age, physical handicap or disability, medical condition, marital status, veteran status, citizen status or other protected group status. © 2007 Oliver Wyman. All rights reserved.
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t’s no mistake that Oliver Wyman is the fastest growing management consulting firm in the Top 10. With offices and staff spanning the globe and an impressive list of clients, there’s no shortage of work to be done. When you come to work for us, you’ll have the chance to make your mark from the moment you walk through our doors. Our entrepreneurial culture gives you the opportunity to gain exposure to global clients, regularly collaborate with industry experts and our own senior directors, and advance to the directorship without the requirement of an advanced degree. Our exciting, collaborative and stimulating environment means that you’ll be brainstorming with some of the best minds in the international business world, and spending time with dynamic people from a wide range of backgrounds and cultures.
Our approach to solving client challenges combines deep industry knowledge with specialized expertise in strategy, operations, risk management, organizational transformation, and leadership development. We work with clients across a range of industries to deliver sustained shareholder value growth. We help managers to anticipate changes in customer priorities and the competitive environment, and then design their business, improve their operations and risk profile, and accelerate their organizational performance to seize the most attractive opportunities.
From financial services and transportation to retailers and private equity firms; from technology and communications to aviation, aerospace and defense, we firmly believe that the highest quality consulting is created by the highest quality individuals. We are specifically structured to attract, retain and reward outstanding people. When you come to work for us, you’ll be joining a rapidly growing firm with exceptional economics. And whatever your position, you will be presented with equally exceptional opportunities for personal and professional growth. Your career begins now.
Your career begins now.
A word from the President... “In May 2007, three of the world’s leading consultancies in their respective markets—Mercer Oliver Wyman, Mercer Management Consulting and Mercer Delta Organizational Consulting— joined together under the Oliver Wyman brand with the intent to create the world’s best and most dynamic management consulting firm. I can think of no better place for talented, motivated individuals to make their careers. When I joined Oliver, Wyman & Company in 1984, it was a sixperson start-up. I was attracted to the firm by the people I met, the entrepreneurial environment, the emphasis on excellence and the commitment to provide outstanding opportunities for professional growth. Over the last 23 years, the Oliver Wyman name has come to stand for quality, thought leadership and entrepreneurialism.
We now have an exceptional staff of 2,500 professionals working out of more than 40 cities globally. We are the fastest growing management consulting firm in the Top 10 and the set of growth opportunities we have in front of us is more exciting than at any point in my career. This rapid growth and development of our business will, in turn, create personal growth opportunities for our staff members. In recruiting, we look for those who will want to make Oliver Wyman even better in the future. We are highly selective in seeking candidates who are talented and energetic, and who will thrive in and reinforce our unique culture. We value creativity and commitment, and in return are committed to providing individuals with rapid responsibility and growth, shaped by their unique abilities and demonstrated performance.
At the same time, we enjoy the people we work with as much as we enjoy our work and strive to maintain a balanced lifestyle for our staff. All of this takes place in a refreshingly informal atmosphere, which is encouraged by a flat organizational structure and open door policy. Each year, I look forward to the injection of ideas and energy that our newest hires bring. I encourage you to learn more about our organization and to explore exciting career opportunities with us.” John Drzik President Oliver Wyman
The opportunities are exceptional– at work and beyond.
At Oliver Wyman, you will develop valuable skills, gain industry expertise, learn from colleagues and clients, and contribute to a dynamic team environment—all as quickly as you are ready to do so. We are committed to building an organization full of individuals who share our passion for delivering results for our clients. The work you will do at Oliver Wyman has real impact. As a consultant, you will be charged with responsibility for finding new and meaningful perspectives on some of the toughest problems. We’re looking for intelligent, analytical, and highly motivated individuals who want a stimulating environment that rewards excellence. We’re looking for people with diverse backgrounds and intense curiosity who can listen and articulate fresh perspectives. In return, we offer highly challenging work with enormous scope for professional and personal development, in a supportive environment that encourages the pursuit of personal and charitable interests.
There is no single, pre-ordained career path here—we value flexibility and the chance to explore both professionally and personally. Your experiences will add value to our clients—and to your career.
Broad Exposure and In-depth Specialization During your time at Oliver Wyman, you will work closely with the people, businesses and ideas that are changing our world. As clients look to us to solve their most difficult and important strategic challenges, you’ll find intellectual stimulation and exposure to a wide variety of projects and individuals. This breadth of experience will be complemented by greater knowledge and depth as you gain experience in specialized areas, depending upon your interests and capabilities.
At Oliver Wyman, you will develop valuable skills, gain industry expertise, learn from colleagues and clients, and contribute to a dynamic team environment—all as quickly as you are ready to do so.
Exceptional Professional Development Options Learning is a significant and continuous element of the Oliver Wyman experience. From exciting casework and specialized training to non-profit fellowships and international project work, the opportunities and expertise available to you are as vast as your appetite for them.
Merit-based Career Progression Oliver Wyman is purely and simply a meritocracy. We are looking for people who can develop rapidly as professionals and assume constantly increasing levels of responsibility. Strong performers are promoted quickly and compensated exceptionally. There are no time, tenure or advanced degree requirements for promotion to director. Your responsibilities will expand as quickly as you demonstrate your capabilities.
Should you choose to pursue an advanced degree, Oliver Wyman provides an attractive springboard for doing so. Our people have a strong track record of getting into the best programs.
Diverse People and Culture One of the best and most interesting things we can do for our clients and ourselves is to bring together a group of people with varying strengths and backgrounds. Our staff represents a host of countries, educational and cultural backgrounds, professional experiences, interests and beliefs.
At Oliver Wyman, People Define our Firm While our work is high impact and high stakes, the atmosphere at Oliver Wyman is noticeably friendly and collegial. Oliver Wyman focuses on output, not input, and fundamentally rejects the culture of “long hours for long hours’ sake.” Ours is a community that values a healthy exchange of ideas, teamwork and mutual respect. We see no conflict whatsoever between doing great work and having fun. Also, we encourage our staff to pursue interests outside of work, as it makes them better consultants and more interesting colleagues.
Alumni Network Connections Your Oliver Wyman experience will extend far beyond our offices. An impressive group of alumni offers opportunities for networking, support, and career options across industries and around the world. Our alumni are executives and leaders at companies such as GE, Citigroup, Google, HSBC, American Express, MTV Europe, ING, Tesco, and Guinness, to name just a few. Others have taken their Oliver Wyman experience and talents into private equity, venture capital, and not-for-profit enterprises, and indeed many have started their own successful businesses. We are very proud of the achievements of our alumni. With such a vast range and diversity of careers from one starting point, Oliver Wyman is more than a consulting organization… we’re a community.
The impact is real–on your clients, on your life.
Finding opportunity is one thing. Knowing how to capitalize on it is an entirely different matter. Every answer we find and every solution we create must have one thing in common: it must add value and have an intentional, positive impact on our clients and their business objectives. Working with Oliver Wyman, you’ll learn to approach challenges in a way that combines deep industry knowledge with specialized expertise. It’s a unique way of looking at our clients and their business issues, and delivering superior results to them.
We most frequently work on-site with our clients for a project’s entire lifecycle, from strategy development to implementation. We believe that working shoulderto-shoulder with clients improves the quality of project execution and ultimately, the implementation of the downstream change. Most of all, we work as our clients expect us to work—with a commitment to excellence in project delivery and a clear focus on helping them to achieve tangible results. At Oliver Wyman, you’ll find that the impact we have on our clients translates directly into the impact your work will have on your own career.
“In looking for a consulting firm, we needed a partner, not just another vendor. What we found in Oliver Wyman was a team with a deep knowledge of our situation and the challenges we faced. They brought a collaborative and flexible approach to problem-solving, innovative ideas backed up by solid experience and leadership, and a down-to-earth approach that enabled them to build relationships and support our organization from day one.” Sean Donohue Senior Vice President United Airlines
On Industry…
On the Firm…
On the Community…
Oliver Wyman works with senior executives at many of the world’s largest and most dynamic enterprises to develop, build and operate businesses that deliver sustained shareholder value and growth. We help organizations become more responsive and effective in an ever-changing global climate. We guide clients in crafting strategic agendas that create and maintain competitive advantage in complex, highly-competitive markets. Our expertise enables us to respond quickly and creatively to client needs and priorities anywhere around the world.
Our unique culture and ongoing growth enable you to have an immediate impact on our business. Defined by exceptional economics and rapid growth, Oliver Wyman is emerging as one of the top management consulting enterprises in the world. The breadth and depth of our company make it possible for you to grow professionally, while the nature of our organization facilitates exceptional leadership opportunities and the ability to shape the future of the firm through your work.
Oliver Wyman’s culture includes a commitment to extending a helping hand. In addition to pro-bono work, our organization pursues philanthropic projects such as annual charity auctions, volunteer work and project work for nonprofit organizations. Charitable activities of individuals are supported. How and where you make your mark is entirely up to you.
On your Future… Your career at Oliver Wyman will build on your unique strengths to help you achieve your full potential—both professionally and personally. As you grow with us, your options for the future will expand enormously. You will have access to senior clients and directors, and will participate in client projects of the highest caliber in the industry. You will become exceptionally adept at solving complex, real-world problems. You will cultivate a broad and deep knowledge of critical business issues. You will become a skilled leader. An experience with Oliver Wyman will prepare you for whatever opportunity you’re looking for—both here and beyond.
Get there faster– take charge of your career.
Your experience with Oliver Wyman will prepare you for almost any opportunity that comes your way— both at the firm and beyond. The business skills, leadership talents and client exposure you’ll gain here are second to none. Our goal is to provide innovative opportunities for our employees so they can continue to learn and grow during every step of their careers. More than 2,500 professionals in over 40 offices around the globe make an impact on our clients every day, with an unmatched combination of industry knowledge and expertise in strategy, risk management, operations, organizational transformation, and leadership development.
Your Career Path Oliver Wyman is committed to nurturing and developing staff early in their careers. In both of our primary career tracks, many of our staff were promoted through the ranks to become directors. We are unique in that we do not require an advanced degree for promotion into the directorship. We think that you can learn just as much, if not more, on the job as you might in the classroom. We avoid the constraints that, in many firms, limit the pace at which an able individual can assume responsibility. We allow our consultants as much responsibility as they can handle and provide ongoing training to accelerate their development. We emphasize an accelerated path to the directorship, not a two-year analyst program.
The business skills, leadership talents and client exposure you’ll gain here are second to none. Our goal is to provide innovative opportunities for our employees so they can continue to learn, grow and succeed during every step of their careers.
Career Flexibility
International Staffing
We recognize that by supporting the professional and personal goals and interests of our people, the entire organization benefits. Your life is not all about your work here. Through “FlexOW” we offer innovative alternatives which include 10/11 month work years, sabbaticals, externships, non-profit fellowships and part-time programs. FlexOW provides multiple opportunities for balancing your work and your life.
With over 40 offices worldwide, we have global opportunities available and look to staff the best people on the assignments, no matter where the client is located. Whether you’re working domestically or abroad, your exposure to different markets and cultures will be constant and in-depth. From Beijing to London, from New York to Paris, from Toronto to Dubai, Oliver Wyman provides invaluable exposure and access to an exciting and challenging business world. And because our work relies on a thorough knowledge of the markets where our clients operate, we believe that the best way to gain that understanding is to see and experience it for ourselves.
Make your mark.
Career Tracks There are different career tracks at Oliver Wyman:
General Management Consulting
Financial Services Consulting
Consultants on this track receive broad exposure to important strategic issues across a wide variety of industries such as retail, aviation, technology and media, energy, manufacturing, automotive, transportation and life sciences. The General Management track provides an opportunity to develop a broad skill set across a range of industry options, and allows for sector specialization at your own pace.
Consultants on this track specialize in Financial Services and become content experts early in their careers which affords high responsibility. Financial Services is one of the largest and most dynamic industries in the world. Strategic challenges in retail banking, investment banking, trading, insurance, asset management, and risk represent the largest sampling of Financial Services project work.
If you would like to talk with us about the firm and its opportunities, please arrange to see us when we visit your campus. If we’re not interviewing at your University, please submit your resume and cover letter via the online application. For additional information regarding the industry tracks and how to apply, please visit our website at: www.oliverwyman.com.
Start here.
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t’s no mistake that Oliver Wyman is the fastest growing management consulting firm in the Top 10. With offices and staff spanning the globe and an impressive list of clients, there’s no shortage of work to be done. When you come to work for us, you’ll have the chance to make your mark from the moment you walk through our doors. Our entrepreneurial culture gives you the opportunity to gain exposure to global clients, regularly collaborate with industry experts and our own senior directors, and advance to the directorship without the requirement of an advanced degree. Our exciting, collaborative and stimulating environment means that you’ll be brainstorming with some of the best minds in the international business world, and spending time with dynamic people from a wide range of backgrounds and cultures.
Our approach to solving client challenges combines deep industry knowledge with specialized expertise in strategy, operations, risk management, organizational transformation, and leadership development. We work with clients across a range of industries to deliver sustained shareholder value growth. We help managers to anticipate changes in customer priorities and the competitive environment, and then design their business, improve their operations and risk profile, and accelerate their organizational performance to seize the most attractive opportunities.
From financial services and transportation to retailers and private equity firms; from technology and communications to aviation, aerospace and defense, we firmly believe that the highest quality consulting is created by the highest quality individuals. We are specifically structured to attract, retain and reward outstanding people. When you come to work for us, you’ll be joining a rapidly growing firm with exceptional economics. And whatever your position, you will be presented with equally exceptional opportunities for personal and professional growth. Your career begins now.
Begin your career with us. We search worldwide to find the best people.
Your career begins now.
It’s worth the effort. And it has a positive and lasting impact on our clients and our employees every day. With constant opportunities to build your expertise and demonstrate your talent, you’ll get wherever you’re going faster—at Oliver Wyman and beyond.
Get there faster. Start here.
For further information, please contact your local Oliver Wyman office or visit our web site at:
Careers at Oliver Wyman
www.oliverwyman.com
Oliver Wyman provides equal employment opportunity and treatment regardless of gender, color, race, ancestry, religion, natural origin, sexual orientation, age, physical handicap or disability, medical condition, marital status, veteran status, citizen status or other protected group status. © 2007 Oliver Wyman. All rights reserved.
Atlanta ■ Barcelona ■ Beijing ■ Boston ■ Calgary ■ Chicago ■ Cleveland ■ Columbus ■ Dallas ■ Detroit ■ Dubai ■ Düsseldorf ■ Frankfurt Hamburg ■ Hong Kong ■ Houston ■ Istanbul ■ Leatherhead ■ Lisbon ■ London ■ Madrid ■ Melville ■ Mexico City ■ Milan ■ Milwaukee Montréal ■ Munich ■ New York ■ Paris ■ Philadelphia ■ Pittsburgh ■ Portland ■ Princeton ■ San Francisco ■ São Paulo ■ Seoul ■ Shanghai Singapore ■ Stockholm ■ Sydney ■ Toronto ■ Washington, D.C. ■ Zurich
faster—at Oliver Wyman and beyond. ent, you’ll get wherever you’re going expertise and demonstrate your talconstant opportunities to build your and our employees every day. With tive and lasting impact on our clients It’s worth the effort. And it has a posiworldwide to find the best people. Begin your career with us. We search