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.
Role Purpose
Help shape how Oliver Wyman delivers its most important regional priorities across Europe. As Business Impact Manager – Europe Strategic Initiatives & AI, you will turn strategic ambitions into coordinated action. Partnering closely with regional leadership, you'll lead complex initiatives from planning through execution, enabling informed decision-making, improving operational effectiveness, and introducing smarter ways of working—including practical applications of AI—to help the business deliver greater impact.
Success in this role comes from bringing clarity to complexity, building trusted relationships across functions, and ensuring strategic priorities translate into measurable business outcomes.
Day-to-Day Responsibilities
- Drive strategic initiatives across Europe
Lead the planning and delivery of high-priority regional initiatives from mobilisation through implementation. Translate strategic priorities into structured workplans, governance frameworks and delivery roadmaps while proactively managing risks, dependencies and milestones.
- initiatives remain on track
- stakeholders stay aligned
- leadership has clear visibility of delivery
- Enable effective executive governance
Coordinate regional leadership forums, steering committees and working groups by preparing agendas, executive briefings, decision papers and progress updates. Maintain clear ownership of actions and ensure timely follow‑through across stakeholders.
- governance forums support informed decision-making
- actions are tracked effectively
- momentum is maintained across workstreams
- Improve operational effectiveness
Identify opportunities to simplify regional processes and introduce scalable operating rhythms that improve transparency, consistency and execution. Design governance approaches, playbooks and reporting that support sustainable delivery across Europe.
- regional processes become simpler
- delivery becomes more consistent
- teams spend less time navigating process and more time creating value
- Accelerate AI‑enabled ways of working
Support the adoption of AI and productivity tools by coordinating implementation activities, capturing successful use cases and partnering with technology and enablement teams to embed new ways of working across the region.
- AI‑enabled solutions are adopted effectively
- colleagues have practical support to embrace new tools
- measurable productivity improvements are realised
- Drive communication, engagement and collaboration
Develop clear communications, leadership updates and change messaging that help colleagues understand regional priorities and support successful implementation. Build trusted relationships across Markets, Industries, Capabilities and corporate functions to enable collaboration and alignment.
- stakeholders remain informed
- change initiatives gain traction
- regional priorities are clearly understood
- Strengthen the Business Impact Team
Actively contribute to the continued development of the Europe Business Impact Team by sharing best practices, supporting colleagues, contributing to team initiatives and helping establish consistent ways of working across the region.
- stronger collaboration
- greater consistency
- continuous improvement across the BIT
Skills & What You’ll Bring to the Team
- At least 5 years’ experience managing complex strategic initiatives, PMOs or transformation programmes within professional services or similarly fast‑paced environments.
- Curiosity about AI and emerging technologies, with practical experience—or a strong interest—in applying them to improve productivity, collaboration and decision‑making.
- Strong project and programme management capability, including planning, governance, stakeholder coordination, dependency management and risk mitigation.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to prepare executive presentations, briefing papers and decision materials for senior stakeholders.
- Strong analytical capability and confidence translating data into meaningful insights and recommendations.
- The ability to influence and build trusted relationships across functions, geographies and seniority levels.
- Experience balancing multiple priorities while maintaining high standards of delivery with limited oversight.
What Will Make You Stand Out
- Experience supporting senior regional leadership teams within a matrixed organisation.
- Exposure to consulting or professional services environments.
- Experience leading AI‑enabled transformation or technology adoption initiatives.
- Familiarity with project management platforms, collaboration technologies or productivity tools that improve programme delivery.
- Experience working across multiple European markets and cultures.
Working Model and Location
- This is a Europe‑based hybrid role. The colleague may be based in any Oliver Wyman office in Europe and is expected to meet local office and togetherness requirements.
- The role may require occasional travel within Europe for leadership meetings, workshops, programme mobilisation or priority initiatives.
- The role involves working with stakeholders across multiple European locations and time zones, and requires responsiveness to ad‑hoc, business‑critical requests.
Oliver Wyman is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments in accordance with applicable law to any candidate with a disability to allow them to fully participate in the recruitment process. If you have a disability that may require reasonable adjustments, please contact us at reasonableaccommodations@marsh.com.
Business Impact Manager – Strategy, Transformation & AI employer: Oliver Wyman
At Oliver Wyman, we pride ourselves on being an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic and inclusive work culture that fosters collaboration and innovation. Our Newcastle office provides a supportive environment where employees can thrive, with ample opportunities for professional growth and development, competitive compensation, and a strong commitment to work-life balance. Join us to make a meaningful impact while advancing your career in a globally recognised firm dedicated to excellence.