Insurance / Health Care Strategy Practice - Boston , New York, San Francisco
Oliver Wyman is seeking exceptionally qualified candidates for Engagement Manager positions within our Health Care Strategy Practice. Interested individuals should have extraordinary intellectual capability, technical expertise, maturity, and judgment, as demonstrated by their professional experience and academic achievements. Successful candidates must exhibit intellectual curiosity, comfort with quantitative techniques, and excellent communication and leadership skills and be willing to travel for business.
The Health Care Strategy Practice
The Health Care Strategy Practice works with C-suite and senior executives and management teams in the Health Insurance, Disease Management, Provider, and Private Equity industries on wide-ranging issues of strategic impact. We help our clients define a road map for future growth and optimize performance of their current operations in the ever challenging and dynamic healthcare environment. While today’s primary focus is in the Health Insurance space we are also actively looking to build expertise in other Health Care verticals.
Our consulting approach is distinguished by a combination of industry expertise, strategic orientation, analytical rigor, and implementation experience. Oliver Wyman has become the ‘consultant of choice’ for senior executives of a select group of large, well-known corporate institutions. We assist our clients with a wide range of issues which have the common thread of increasing institutional value. Due to rapid growth in the practice we are currently seeking persons with the following skills for consulting positions.
Qualifications & Desired Skills:
- Bachelors or advanced degree (MA, MPH, MBA) from a top academic program in mathematics, economics, health policy, actuarial science or related field
- 3-6 years relevant professional experience in health care sectors and /or consulting and/or management within financial services (preference for health experience)
- Experience and/or established interest in customer segmentation, growth strategy, valuation analyses, sales force effectiveness, operations management, claims, underwriting, and product development
- Ability to work in a team environment, ideally in a project based structure
- Ability to create and present materials suitable for senior client staff
- Fluency in Microsoft Office Suite/flexibility in learning new software tools
For Senior Managers, responsibilities include:
- Providing intellectual leadership for project execution, including planning, supervision and execution of analyses for individual project module(s). Within a project, tasks typically involve developing hypotheses, managing data collection, model design, creation and analyses, conducting primary and secondary research, creatively tackling information limitations, and surfacing insights
- Ability to structure the work of and manage consultant teams, ranging from smaller teams with 1-2 consultants to larger teams with 3-6 consultants. Ensuring accuracy and robustness of analyses and ensuring quality of overall delivery, providing comprehensive support to Partners in project execution
- A key part of the position includes managing the client relationship and being the primary contact point for senior client executives. Client management activities include leading meetings and presentations and interfacing with clients on a day-to-day basis. Candidates must be comfortable presenting to senior executives and high level client audiences.
For Junior Managers, responsibilities include:
- Ability to plan and execute analyses for individual project module(s). Within a project, tasks typically involve developing hypotheses, managing data collection, model creation and analyses, conducting primary and secondary research, creatively tackling information limitations, and surfacing insights.
- Ability and experience in managing 1-2 junior analysts is preferred but not required. Candidates must be able to provide comprehensive support to Partners and Senior Engagement Managers in project execution through accurate and quality case execution.
- Candidates must be comfortable managing mid level executive client relationships, presenting at meetings to a range of audiences, and working day to day with clients.
