Oliver Wyman PMO Manager

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About Oliver Wyman

At Oliver Wyman a Marsh (NYSE: MRSH) business we bring deep industry insight bold innovation and a collaborative approach that cuts through complexity to help organizations navigate their most defining transformative moments.

As a business of Marsh we work alongside the worlds 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 annualrevenueover $24 billion and more than 90000 colleagues in 130 countries Marsh helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective.

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About the Role:

As part of its continued evolution Oliver Wyman is delivering a multi-year firmwide transformation to embed advanced digital and technology-enabled capabilities into how the firm operates and delivers value. This enterprise-wide initiative spans product development technology convergence activation and change communications and regional execution across teams and geographies.

We are seeking a PMO Manager to lead program management and governance for one of Oliver Wymans most significant internal transformation initiatives. This is a complex enterprise-scale program operating in a fast-moving high-ambiguity environment requiring strong judgment structure and leadership.

In this role you will act as the central integrator across multiple workstreams developing a deep understanding of how initiatives interlock and how risks dependencies and trade-offs affect overall outcomes. You will be expected to operate independently anticipate issues early and provide challenge and perspective not simply coordinate activity.

The role spans the full seniority spectrum from hands-on analytical execution to peer-level engagement with senior leaders. You will support high-stakes decision-making shape governance forums and help ensure that leadership conversations are focused on the right priorities at the right time.

The work involves evolving priorities open-ended deliverables and complex stakeholder dynamics reflecting both the pace of technological change and its implications for how a global consulting firm operates. You will act as a role model for program excellence and help shape best practices for large-scale transformation delivery.

On a strong day you bring clarity to complexity reframing fragmented inputs into decision-ready views surfacing risks early enough to change outcomes or helping senior stakeholders align on priorities and trade-offs. Your work will directly influence not just whether the program stays on track but the quality of the decisions that guide it.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the end-to-end governance and execution of a major firmwide transformation integrating progress across product delivery technology builds activation and change communications and regional initiatives

• Own program planning critical path and dependency management proactively identifying delivery risks resourcing constraints and decision points and driving timely resolution

• Prepare and lead senior stakeholder forums (e.g. steering committees and executive touchpoints) including agenda setting synthesis of insights framing of decisions and articulation of trade-offs

• Act as a thought partner and constructive challenger to workstream leads and senior sponsors testing feasibility prioritization sequencing and alignment with overall program objectives

• Ensure high standards of transparency and reporting translating complex delivery signals into concise decision-ready views for leadership

• Manage and mentor PMO resources fostering consistency rigor and professional development across the PMO function

• Continuously evolve PMO ways of working adapting governance cadence and tooling to suit a fast-changing transformation context and keeping processes fit-for-purpose rather than over-engineered

Experience Required:

• 5 years of experience in program project or product management roles ideally within professional services technology transformation or enterprise change environments

• Proven track record of leading complex multi-workstream programs involving senior stakeholders and significant ambiguity

• Strong experience in program governance planning risk management and stakeholder management including operating as a peer to senior leaders

• Demonstrated ability to synthesize complex information into clear recommendations for executive discussion and decision-making

• Expertise in project and program management methodologies (e.g. Agile hybrid Waterfall) with the judgement to apply them pragmatically rather than by the book

• Intellectual curiosity a learning mindset and personal adaptability are baseline expectations at Oliver Wyman and will be assessed through interviews and practical discussions.

Skills & Attributes:

Below are four skills that are critical to success as a PMO Manager in Oliver Wyman.

1. Enterprise-scale program leadership

• A strong track record in program and change management combined with the ability to see the strategic picture across multiple interdependent workstreams. This includes anticipating risks understanding trade-offs and making informed decisions on prioritization and escalation in a fast-moving environment

2. Senior decision support through analytical synthesis

• Advanced analytical capability to derive insights and formulate clear recommendations turning complex inputs into decision-ready materials that shape leadership discussions rather than simply report status

3. Influence alignment and stakeholder leadership

• Proven ability to influence and align senior stakeholders across roles levels and backgrounds managing competing priorities navigating tension and maintaining momentum without formal authority

4. Operational rigor

• Exceptional attention to detail strong proficiency with core productivity and collaboration tools and comfort leveraging digital tools to support program execution. Ability to provide reliable governance high-quality materials disciplined follow-through and calm execution under pressure