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Job specification

Job title: Oliver Wyman - Analyst – Leadership & Change Analytics (LCA)

Department: Oliver Wyman Mergers & Acquisitions

Office/region: Boston, MA

Eligibility: Permanent US work authorization

About Oliver Wyman

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 5,000 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 [NYSE: MMC]. For more information, visit www.oliverwyman.com

Team overview:

Oliver Wyman’s Leadership and Change Analytics unit is an innovative, fast-growing team of data scientists and organizational change specialists. Organized as part of our cross-industry Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) practice, we bring sophisticated expertise in behavioral science and people analytics capabilities to bear on business-critical problems for our clients that span industries.

Clients hire us for our depth of insight and expertise; expertise that comes from a combination of specialized domain knowledge in organizational behavior and deep data science and engineering capabilities. We combine analytical rigor and rapid innovation with a relentless focus on client impact. We are passionate about developing our people and support your career progression, including a path to partner. We are looking for candidates who are excited to work in a collaborative, entrepreneurial, and learning-oriented environment, focused on delivering impact through analytics.

The role:

Working with us offers excellent career and growth opportunities for highly motivated early career and college graduates from quantitative disciplines with some exposure to data engineering, business analytics, and/or quantitative social science.

This role offers a mix of research and asset innovation as well as client-facing, project-based analytics. Some travel to client sites is to be expected as part of building client relationships and setting projects on a solid foundation, but most of our work can be conducted from Boston. We will make flexible working hours and market leading work life balance a priority considering your individual needs, however, we require all employees to work in person with their colleagues for a part of each week.

The ideal candidates will possess strong technical skills, capability to work in teams, a strong learning orientation, the ability deliver work efficiently and under high quality standards and have an open and flexible mindset. Must be based in Boston, MA.

Responsibilities will include:

• You will work as part of our small, fast-growing team, in coordination with other Oliver Wyman teams and clients across the globe

• You will work with large and complex datasets producing customized analyses and advanced models using statistical techniques for the client’s needs

• You will be given ownership of the model and application development or validation from start to finish with guidance from experienced managers

• You will work on summarizing, presenting and documenting the performed analyses and features of the developed solutions in client-ready formats

Required skills and experience:

• A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a quantitative discipline, e.g. Business Analytics, Data Engineering, Data Science, Computer Science or Engineering, Mathematics, or Statistics

• Strong engineering, analytics, problem solving, and communication skills

• Experience in advanced analytics and data manipulation – e.g. R, SQL, Python preferred

• Experience to work effectively and collaboratively in a team, while being sufficiently self-directed to meet deadlines and produce high-quality output when working independently

• Be able to find innovative, practical and creative solutions to organizational and business issues

• Excellent command of English language (verbal and written)

Compensation: $80,000 annually

Master’s student: $85,000 annually