Oliver Wyman

Practice: Consumer, Telecommunications, and Technology
Location: Paris, France
Who We Are
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 Follow Oliver Wyman on Twitter @OliverWyman.

Practice Overview
Oliver Wyman's Consumer, Telecommunications, and Technology practice, addresses the full range of challenges and opportunities for retailers, technology, communications, and consumer goods companies, from strategic differentiators to building a more compelling customer proposition and optimizing the cost base, in what is a rapidly changing consumer and competitive environment for them.

The role will focus on managing projects - You will lead a team through an efficient and effective problem-solving process from initial thought process through convergence on a solution. You will ensure that recommendations are appropriate, practical, sensible, relevant and cohesive. It's a role that demands thought leadership at the strategic level, and command of all the technical and operational details of execution in teams.

The following list is a sample of the topics that Consumer, Telecommunications, and Technology practice recently focused on, spanning the full spectrum from strategy and transformation to organization and focused work :

• Multi-year transformational "journeys"
• Strategy : evolution, growth and revolution
• Rekindling growth
• M&A and PMI
• Online and multi-channel strategies
• Customer-centric strategies
• Value strategies : offence and defense
• Price guarantees, effective promotions, loyalty programmes
• New retail concepts
• New store design
• Network optimization and redesign to cope with an online world
• Ranging strategies
• Making the most from "local" situations
• Getting more from stores
• Strategies for Fresh products that grow store traffic and sales and reduce costs
• COGS reduction and supplier relation programmes
• IT and data-driven retailing
• Design of financial governance
• Organizational structures

Desired Skills And Experience
Clients hire Oliver Wyman for specialized expertise, so your experience is of enormous value to us. The ideal candidate will have most of the following:

• Minimum of 4 years of relevant experience, ideally with a top-tier strategy consulting.
• Experience in CPG and/or Retail and knowledge of the topics listed above (in the "practice overview" section).
• 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
• French and English language skills (fluent)
• Undergraduate or advanced degree from a top academic program
• Willingness to travel

Why work for 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 barriers to advancement.

We have a collaborative, supportive and impactful team environment - we want you to bring your authentic self to the team and enjoy working alongside diverse and down-to-earth colleagues who do serious work, but who enjoy what they do.

Our values and Culture
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. We venture into the unknown, staying open to our greatest possibilities.

Lead with heart:
We build relationships with clients and colleagues that last, grounded in transparency, authenticity, and trust. We love what we do and have fun while we do it. And we combine this passion with rigor and skill to drive sustainable performance.

Strive for breakthroughs:
We bring deep expertise and profound curiosity to the pursuit of ambitious ideas and uncommon insights. We ask bigger questions, seek diverse perspectives, and challenge ourselves to find the most powerful and sustainable solutions.

Work as one:
We succeed as a unified team of colleagues and clients, achieving together what separately would be beyond our reach. We care for and develop one another. We learn from differences, overcome divisions, and celebrate our shared achievements.

Own your impact:
We act as entrepreneurs and stewards of the firm. We own the journey, acting with integrity at every step. And we own our impact, holding ourselves to the highest standards to deliver stronger results for our clients, better opportunities for each other and lasting change for society.

Our commitment to diversity is genuine, deep and growing. We're not perfect, but we're working hard right now to make our teams balanced, representative and diverse.
Oliver Wyman, a business of Marsh McLennan (NYSE: MMC), is a management consulting firm combining deep industry knowledge with specialized expertise to help clients optimize their business, improve operations and accelerate performance. Marsh McLennan is a global leader in risk, strategy and people, advising clients in 130 countries across four businesses: Marsh, Guy Carpenter, Mercer and Oliver Wyman. With annual revenue of $24 billion and more than 90,000 colleagues, Marsh McLennan helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective. For more information, visit , or follow on LinkedIn and X.

Marsh McLennan is committed to creating 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, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Marsh McLennan 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 McLennan colleagues are expected to be in their local office or working onsite with clients at least three days per week. Office-based teams will identify at least one "anchor day" per week on which their full team will be together in person.

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