Manager - Digital Practice

Job Description

Location: London, UK
Levels: Associate – Engagement Manager (Junior to Senior Manager)

Oliver Wyman Digital is the dedicated digital practice within Oliver Wyman. We support our clients in building the businesses of the future and our mission is to leave a positive impact on the world. We mix agency skills with our consulting roots so that we can best answer the most influential organisation’s toughest questions.

We pride ourselves on delivering impact against tough and meaningful problems for the world. We help our clients serve new markets and user needs, empower their workforce with digital tools and skillsets, and run their business more efficiently and sustainably. We’re committed to growth that provides our people the most exciting and fulfilling opportunities and we are looking for more people to join us.

As part of our team, you’ll grow our business by becoming a trusted client advisor, partnering to solve their business problems with innovative technology enabled solutions. You will be engaged on rich and varied projects ranging from niche technology proof of concepts and venture builds through to digital transformation design, execution and optimisation. Operating within high-performing, collaborative teams consisting of industry experts, consultants, change-makers, creative designers, architects and engineers, you will own the technical project from conception through to delivery, interfacing directly with clients and running point on delivering significant impact.

With technology best practices evolving at an unprecedented rate, we are seeking candidates to support our clients’ technology change journeys driving both efficient technology and technology-enabled efficiency in wider businesses. We seek candidates who can help our clients assess where they are today, define their target state, and develop and support strategies to get them there across people, process, and technology.

Responsibilities and requirements:
Knowledge of modern and emerging technology trends such as Cloud, DevOps, Agile, Data Management, etc. and appreciation of the common technology challenges of large organisations such as legacy technology and talent
Strong technical toolkit including experience with technology project management, enterprise and solution architecture, and modern software engineering best practice
Experience navigating technology functions and programmes including common roles and responsibilities and governance structures
Being able to confidently and effectively communicate with both business and technology-aligned team members and client stakeholders
Ability to lead structured current state diagnostics to identify and prioritise material gaps to best practice within technology functions and programmes
Ability to run the process of generating technology strategies, including interface with overall business strategy, articulation of principles / best practices, business case and KPI development
Ability to design action plans and roadmaps for executing modernisation efforts, working with client stakeholders to co-ordinate priorities dependencies and risks into coherent plans with appropriate over-arching governance

Clients hire Oliver Wyman for specialized expertise, so your industry experience is of enormous value to us. The ideal candidate will have most of the following:
Minimum of 4-8 years of relevant experience, ideally with a top-tier strategy consulting or technology firms, ideally including:
Leading and supporting digital delivery and data projects at scale
Working in the Transportation and Services, Public Sector, HLS sectors
Evidence of a strong consulting toolkit, including:
Strong background in strategic problem solving with demonstrable analytical skills and delivery of impact
Outstanding written and verbal communication skills in both formal and informal settings
Knowing how to take the initiative, seeking out opportunities to learn new skills and put the ones you’ve already got to good use
Being not just intelligent, but creative too: ready to come up with novel ideas
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 embrace our ways of working, including:
Proactivity being assumed and encouraged: if you see an opportunity to make things better or learn more, you feel empowered to go for it
Breaking new ground and finding new ways to approach problems, rather than ‘cranking the handle’ with off-the-shelf processes again and again
Working fluidly and respectfully with our incredibly talented team, helping each other out and learning from each other
We anticipate your willingness to travel as per business requirements, and we also expect you to spend 60% of your time working from a designated location to embrace our hybrid work arrangements