Business Impact Manager – Strategy, Transformation & AI

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 will 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.

Your Day-to-Day

a) 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.

Success looks like:

• initiatives remain on track
• stakeholders stay aligned
• leadership has clear visibility of delivery

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.

Success looks like:

• governance forums support informed decision‑making
• actions are tracked effectively
• momentum is maintained across workstreams

c) 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.

Success looks like:

• regional processes become simpler
• delivery becomes more consistent
• teams spend less time navigating process and more time creating value

d) 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.

Success looks like:

• AI‑enabled solutions are adopted effectively
• colleagues have practical support to embrace new tools
• measurable productivity improvements are realised

e) 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.

Success looks like:

• stakeholders remain informed
• change initiatives gain traction
• regional priorities are clearly understood

f) 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.

Success looks like:

• 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 in German and English, 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.