Oliver Wyman 2024 MBA Summer Associate Operations Practice
Oliver Wyman 2024 MBA Summer Associate Operations Practice
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Oliver WymanDescription:
MBA Summer Associate (Internship)
Business Operations Practice
About Oliver Wyman
Oliver Wyman is a global leader in management consulting. With offices in 60 cities across 29 countries Oliver Wyman combines deep industry knowledge with specialized expertise in strategy operations risk management and organization transformation. The firm has more than 5000 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
Job Specifications
Job Title: Summer Associate
Practice Group: Business Operations
Location: Detroit Dallas Chicago New York Boston Toronto Washington DC
The Operations Practice
We work with clients across industries to help them transform and optimize their operations through improving cost quality and delivery to become market leaders in their industry. We help them find strategic solutions to address the challenges they face optimize their operating model to deliver the best service and increase operational performance while controlling operating cost. We focus on developing solutions which can be immediately implemented in collaboration with clients teams and can rapidly bring visible and sustainable results.
We support our clients in improving the efficiency of their operations through improving quality streamlining cost and improving customer value. From portfolio planning and new product development to manufacturing distribution and servicing we help clients solve their most critical issues. We partner with businesses across a broad range of industries and geographies to ensure their operations provide the best value and allow them to excel in the global marketplace.
We typically start assignments with strategic questions but our client relationships extend way beyond PowerPoint decks. Throughout our projects we help our customers build their own capabilities and upskill their workforce ensuring their people can collaborate independently efficiently and that their teams have sufficient agility to swiftly cope with disruption.
To maximize value creation we have developed a broad operations toolkit including analytical and artificial intelligencedriven tools a network of technical experts in our Oliver Wyman Engineers and CAVOK teams and benchmarking and best practice databases like our annual automotive Harbour Report manufacturing productivity study. We combine this with our deep project expertise and proven methods and approaches.
About The Role
Oliver Wymans Operations team in North America is looking to hire Summer Associates to join its 10week summer internship program. The team works with large corporations and private equity investors across a variety of operational topics including value sourcing supply chain manufacturing and process improvement. At Oliver Wyman we take a multispecialist approach to our engagements bringing teams comprising both deep industry and functional expertise supported by proprietary approaches and a worldclass network. This enables our clients to achieve differentiated results.
Responsibilities
We are not typical management consultants. We provide industry and disciplinespecific knowledge and expertise which amplifies our impact and helps us shape the future for our clients.
The team is looking for current MBAs who have experience working in or are interested in focusing on one or a subset of operational capabilities. These capabilities include: Supply Chain Value Sourcing Manufacturing Process Improvement. If the candidate has experience in the following industries it would be beneficial: Automotive Aviation Aerospace & Defense Chemicals Large Industrials.
You will break down complex strategic problems into discrete tasks and identify the key aspects of a problem across various industries and services within Operations. You will effectively manage the of individual project workstream. This typically includes but is not confined to:
- Develop hypotheses and execute complex quantitative analysis through conducting and analyzing primary (complex survey and interviews) and secondary research.
- Drive development of primary research tools (interviews surveys focus groups) and analysis/distillation of insights.
- Driving insights through analysis of large datasets.
- Driving the story line of workstreams.
- Manage and provide guidance to junior team members.
- Assist the partner team in developing future opportunities.
Desired Skills & Experience
Oliver Wyman is a diverse and entrepreneurial partnership of individuals who like to pursue new opportunities or build a unique franchise doing what they do best in a collegial fun environment.
Clients hire Oliver Wyman for specialized expertise the ideal candidate will have most of the following:
- 2 years of operations experience working in a preferred industry (e.g. Automotive Aviation Aerospace & Defense Chemicals Large Industrials)
- Knowledge and indepth experience with customer research techniques (interviews surveys focus groups etc..
- A strong background in strategic problem solving with demonstrable analytical skills.
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills in both formal and informal settings.
- Fluent in English.
- An undergraduate or advanced degree from a strong academic program.
- Know how to take the initiative seeking out opportunities to learn new skills and put the ones youve already got to good use.
- Not just intelligence but creativity too: youll be ready to come up with novel ideas to solve our clients biggest problems.
- An aptitude for analytical work like sniffing out clues in massive data sets or hunting down the key issues in a hugely complex challenge.
- A willingness to work fluidly and respectfully with our incredibly talented team.
Our Values & Culture
We value people whose lives balance work and nonwork 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 projectbased business. We provide the ability to take career breaks for personal or family reasons. We fundamentally value each others time and are sensitive to how it is used. We are an output not inputbased culture have respect for peoples personal decisions and believe that ones workload must be sustainable. We seek balance for ourselves and our colleagues.
Intern Compensation: The applicable pay for this role is $3650 USD Weekly.
The base pay offered will be determined on factors such as experience skills training location certifications and education. Decisions will be determined on a casebycase basis. In addition to the base salary this position may be eligible for performancebased incentives.
Unrestricted U.S. work authorization is required. Oliver Wyman does not offer sponsorship for this position. (Please note that CPT and OPT are forms of restricted work authorization.
Required Experience:
IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
