Associate/Engagement Manager

Oliver Wyman - Associate/Engagement Manager - Insurance & Asset Management

This role is focused on supporting insurance and asset management clients through strategic consulting. Responsibilities include managing project workstreams, conducting research, synthesizing findings, and delivering insights. The position also involves mentoring junior consultants and supporting partner groups. Candidates should have 4–7 years of relevant experience, ideally in a top-tier strategy consulting firm, with a strong background in insurance-related topics such as organizational design, strategic planning, and risk management. An undergraduate or advanced degree is required, along with unrestricted U.S. work authorization. The salary range is $190,000 to $240,000, with eligibility for performance-based incentives and a comprehensive benefits package.

Job Description

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 6,000 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. For more information, visit www.oliverwyman.com.

Job Specification

Practice Group: Financial Services

Practice: Insurance

Location: New York

Role: Associate, Engagement Manager

Practice Overview

The Insurance and Asset Management Practice provides leading Life Insurers, Property & Casualty Insurers, and Asset Managers with strategic insights to succeed in a rapidly evolving competitive, regulatory, and capital markets environment. Our work spans a range of topics, including strategy development, financial effectiveness, product design and management, operational excellence, underwriting and pricing, and distribution. Recent examples of our impact include:

• Establishing a Greenfield insurer from strategy formulation, technology selection across the value chain, project planning through to implementation
• Designing a multi-year corporate strategy for an Independent Broker Dealer that included product development, distribution and operations and technology components
• Building a generative-AI powered contract review tool reviewing the insurance sections of contracts
• Developing a target operating model for the Finance and Actuarial functions of a life insurer to empower them with enhanced data and the technology they need to design products, perform pricing updates, and calculate reserves

The Insurance Practice is seeking Associates and Engagement Managers to support continued expansion. For more information about our Practice, please visit Oliver Wyman’s website.

Associate / Engagement Manager Role

Our consulting roles offer excellent career and growth opportunities for talented, highly motivated professionals with relevant prior experience. As a professional member of our firm in the Associate or Engagement Manager role, your initial responsibilities will include:

• Managing the execution of individual project workstreams or projects, including project/workstream planning and coordination; developing hypotheses; managing data collection, model creation and analyses; conducting primary and secondary research; surfacing insights
• Synthesizing findings into written presentations; reviewing and discussing with clients and other stakeholders; leading client readouts of written presentations or deliverables
• Supporting our Partner group in project delivery through accurate and high-quality execution
• Managing and developing junior consultants on individual project workstreams or projects, including task allocation, output review, feedback sessions, and mentoring in consulting skillset and/or insurance industry content

Desired Skills and Experience

We value the diversity of backgrounds and skill sets for successful candidates. The ideal candidate will have:

• 4-7 years of relevant experience, ideally with a top-tier strategy consulting firm (or other similar organizations with project-based, team-oriented environments)
• Experience with insurance-related topics, such as organizational design, strategic planning, product design, distribution, underwriting, policy or claims administration, claims, risk and capital management, pensions, or reinsurance
• Track record of leading and managing teams, and delivering against tight deadlines in fast-paced, demanding environments
• Strong background in strategic problem solving with demonstrable analytical skills
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills
• Undergraduate or advanced degree from a top academic program
• Willingness to travel

Unrestricted U.S. work authorization is required for U.S. office locations. Please note that CPT and OPT are restricted forms of work authorization.

Why Work for Us

Oliver Wyman seeks to invest in its people by fostering a safe and inclusive environment, respecting and welcoming different perspectives, promoting an ownership culture, providing opportunities for individuals to develop their personal brand, and celebrating successes and rewarding performance. There are employee groups for: the LGBT+ community, racially and ethnically diverse employees, women, family life, introverts and veterans of military service at Oliver Wyman.

The base salary range for this role is $190,000 to $240,000.

The base pay offered will be determined on factors such as experience, skills, training, location, certifications, educations, and any applicable minimum wage requirements. Decisions will be determined on a case-by-case basis. In addition to the base salary, this position is eligible for performance-based incentives.

Oliver Wyman offers a performance-based pay program that rewards colleagues for the contributions they make to our business results, including year-end bonuses based on personal and corporate performance. We also offer an impressive array of benefits. Explore all the benefits offered at US Benefits | Marsh McLennan.

Oliver Wyman is a business of Marsh, a global leader in risk, reinsurance and capital, people and investments, and management consulting, advising clients in 130 countries. With annual revenue of over $27 billion and more than 95,000 colleagues, Marsh helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective. For more information, visit oliverwyman.com, or follow us on LinkedIn and X.

Marsh is committed to embracing a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people and embrace diversity of age background, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, gender orientation or expression, marital status, nationality, parental status, personal or social status, political affiliation, race, religion and beliefs, sex/gender, sexual orientation or expression, skin color, veteran status (including protected veterans), or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. If you have a need that requires accommodation, please let us know by contacting [email protected].

Marsh is committed to hybrid work, which includes the flexibility of working remotely and the collaboration, connections and professional development benefits of working together in the office. All Marsh colleagues are expected to be in their local office or working