Mergers & Acquisitions – Engagement Manager & Principal (m/f/d) – UK in London

Oliver Wyman - Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) are pivotal for senior executives, with the potential to create significant value. A successful M&A process can transform an enterprise and accelerate shareholder value creation. Delivering value in M&A starts with a robust plan and a sharp focus on execution. A tailored approach, supported by extensive industry and transaction experience, is critical for success.

At Oliver Wyman, our M&A practice combines deep industry expertise with extensive deal lifecycle experience to deliver lasting impact. We partner with our clients to navigate the entire M&A lifecycle, from identifying and shaping transactions to accelerating and de-risking execution. Our team supports all types of transactions, including M&A, carve-outs, and joint ventures, often advising on the best deal structure to achieve objectives.

Recognizing that successful M&A requires more than financial acumen, we adopt a holistic view of organizational capabilities, market dynamics, and cultural alignment. Our approach is grounded in rigorous analysis and deep industry expertise, co-creating with our clients a winning value creation plan tailored to each transaction.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

Experienced professionals bring us the know-how to make lasting changes for our clients and our company. We are a leading global management consulting firm. We provide deep industry- and discipline-specific knowledge and expertise, which amplifies our impact and helps us shape the future for our clients. 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.

ENGAGEMENT MANAGERS are the on-scene leaders who run our projects day to day. You will lead the team through an efficient and effective problem-solving process from initial thought process through convergence on a solution. You will ensure that recommendations are correct, practical, sensible, relevant, and cohesive. It is a role that demands thought leadership at the strategic level – and command of all the technical and operational details of execution. You will need great communication skills and the ability to forge strong relationships. As an Engagement Manager in M&A, you might be leading a due diligence process to support an investment decision; or leading on a workstream to shape the design of integrated companies after an integration. You will manage a team of consultants and face off to senior clients to share insights and recommendations.

PRINCIPALS are experts in particular content areas and provide day-to-day leadership of complex client projects and aspects of the client relationship and commercial process, teaming with Partners. They ensure on-time delivery that meets or exceeds agreed upon goals, leveraging Oliver Wyman best practice, their own expertise and the firm’s technical competence. They become trusted advisors to senior clients, with the ability to guide and influence their thinking, and to be viewed as experts in particular content areas. As a Principal in M&A, you will play a broad and diverse role, ranging from client coverage and identification of deal ideas; through to leading pre-deal engagements and advising clients on how they proceed; through to orchestrating complex post-deal integration or carve-out processes to deliver lasting value for the client. Oliver Wyman Principals are seen as Partners of the future and, as such, are fully engaged in building business through identifying new and expanded opportunities; they create exciting and additive intellectual capital through thought leadership and are knowledgeable on a broad range of adjacent topics. Principals develop others and build a strong personal brand both within and outside the firm.

WHAT YOU WILL BRING

Just as every client project is different, so we recognize and value the diversity of backgrounds and skillsets for successful candidates. We are seeking high-caliber individuals who want to join our winning team. Preference will be given to candidates with:

• 6-10 years of relevant experience, ideally with a top-tier strategy consulting firm, Transaction Services focused advisor, or top-tier Investment Bank
• Proven track record and expertise with extensive deal lifecycle experience
• Strong analytical and synthesis skills and ability to conduct and leverage sophisticated analyses to identify trends, draw conclusions and present recommendations
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills in both formal and informal settings
• Fluency in English is required
• Willingness to travel
• Know how to take the initiative, seek out opportunities to learn new skills and put the ones you’ve already got to good use
• Not just intelligence, but creativity too: you’ll be ready to come up with novel ideas to solve our clients’ biggest problems
• Have 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

WHY WORK AT OLIVER WYMAN?

Working as part of our global, entrepreneurial company, you will do meaningful work from day one. We are looking for individuals who challenge the norm and constantly strive to build something new for the firm and the world around us. At Oliver Wyman, there's no 'one size fits all' - we hire exceptional people and help them thrive through a built-in support network, flexible career paths, and no artificial barriers to advancement. We have a collaborative, supportive and impactful team environment - we want you to bring your authentic self and enjoy working alongside diverse and down-to-earth colleagues who do serious work, but don't take themselves too seriously.

Our Oliver Wyman Values

• We create breakthroughs to achieve the amazing
• Be brave: We stand behind our beliefs while exploring what drives them. We stand up for what is right and persevere through difficulty.
• Lead with heart: We build relationships with clients and colleagues that last, grounded in transparency, authenticity, and trust.
• Strive for breakthroughs: We bring deep expertise and profound curiosity to the pursuit of ambitious ideas and uncommon insights.
• Work as one: We succeed as a unified team of colleagues and clients, achieving together what separately would be beyond our reach.
• Own our impact: We act as entrepreneurs and stewards of the firm.

BALANCED LIVES

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.

ABOUT OLIVER WYMAN

At Oliver Wyman, a Marsh 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. Together with Marsh Risk, Guy Carpenter, and Mercer, we help organizations build resilience and competitive advantages from every angle.

HOW TO APPLY

If you like what you’ve read, we’d love to hear from you. If you’d like to learn more about the firm during your application process, please visit our careers page.

Oliver Wyman is an equal opportunity employer. Our commitment to diversity is genuine, deep and growing.