Oliver Wyman - Project Manager, OWG Tech Project Office - London

Company:Oliver Wyman

Description:

Oliver Wyman is a global leader in management consulting. With offices in more than 70 cities across 30 countries, Oliver Wyman combines deep industry knowledge with specialized expertise in strategy, operations, risk management, and organization transformation. The firm has more than 6,500 professionals around the world who work with clients to optimize their business, improve their operations and risk profile, and accelerate their organizational performance to seize the most attractive opportunities.

Oliver Wyman is a wholly owned subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan Companies [NYSE: MMC]. For more information, visit www.oliverwyman.com.

The Opportunity:

The Project Manager is responsible for leading the overall direction, coordination, implementation, execution, control, and completion of key OWG Tech projects ensuring consistency with company strategy, commitments, and goals. In addition, adhering to project management best practices, standards, and guidelines. This position is an internal role and will support projects and teams that work within Oliver Wyman. While our core business is in consulting, this role is not a consultant position. 

This is a hybrid role that requires 60% working from our London Baker Street office.

Key Responsibilities:

• Drive, and execute OWG Tech projects aligned with departmental or organizational strategy.
• Develop effective project plans with defined objectives, deliverables, and communication plans.
• Manage project resources and budget to ensure objectives are met.
• Partner with OWG Tech managers, to ensure roles and expectations are clearly defined and understood on each project.
• Identify critical paths and risks and on the project; track them and facilitate mitigation of these risks.
• Create and maintain relationships with stakeholders and manage expectations.
• Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation.
• Report project health and status utilizing agreed project management systems and tools.
• Ensure project closure meetings are held, produce project closure reports highlighting areas for improvement.

Experience Required:

• Five years plus of Project Management experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, MIS, business, or equivalent experience.
• Project management certifications preferred.

Skills and Attributes:

• Strong interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation, negotiation, and consensus building skills.
• Strong knowledge of tech project management methodologies.
• Strong knowledge of project management framework, information management practices and IT solution delivery processes, procedures, and toolsets.
• Knowledge of budget, invoicing, and project financials.
• Excellent analytical and technical skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent planning and organizational skills.
• Excellent customer and/or client service orientation.
• Polished and professional demeanor.
• Ability to plan and facilitate effective meetings and good presentation skills.
• Ability to manage multiple projects.

Why join us at Oliver Wyman?

Visit an Oliver Wyman office anywhere in the world and you will feel it: the buzz of people doing work that matters, with a sense of purpose. Our company comprises a diverse mix of talented people from varied backgrounds and areas of expertise who marshal creative thinking and analytical rigor. Our inclusive, collaborative, non-hierarchical culture allows new thinking to surface quickly. The best idea wins, and everybody is encouraged to contribute. This makes Oliver Wyman both an ideal adviser for organizations and an ideal place for exceptional people to realize their potential.

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 questioning, 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!

• We’re individuals who are self-starting, motivated, energetic, entrepreneurial about what we do
• We have the common aspiration to have an impact, leave a legacy and change the world. We have no interest in running a steady-state business. We want to build, grow and shape the environment around us
• We value an environment where every member of Oliver Wyman is encouraged and expected to voice his or her opinion
• We believe that to create a true meritocracy we need to remove artificial barriers to opportunity
• We value people whose lives balance work and non-work activities because we believe they are both more interesting colleagues and are able to make better contributions to the Firm.
• We push ourselves hard to deliver excellence, but we also work to extract the maximum benefit from the flexibility of a project-based business. We provide the ability to take career breaks for personal or family reasons. We fundamentally value each other’s time and are sensitive to how it is used. We are an output not input-based culture, have respect for people’s personal decisions, and believe that one's workload must be sustainable. We seek balance for ourselves and our colleagues.

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