Oliver Wyman - Talent Manager (Staffing / Resource Management) - Riyadh

Company:Oliver Wyman

Description:

Oliver Wyman is a global leader in management consulting. With offices in 70 cities across 30 countries, Oliver Wyman combines deep industry knowledge with specialized expertise in strategy, operations, risk management, and organization transformation. The firm has more than 7,000 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’s thought leadership is evident in our agenda-setting books, white papers, research reports, and articles in the business press. Our clients are the CEOs and executive teams of the top Global 1000 companies.

Oliver Wyman is now looking for a Talent Manager (Staffing / Resource Management) to join our Riyadh office! 

Job Overview:

Manage the career development and performance management of our junior consultant pool (CCG). Balance project staffing needs by allocating the right talent to projects whilst keeping individual preferences and skill requirements in mind.

Collaborate with business stakeholders across Industries and Capabilities, ACG, CCG and Specialist TMs across the region to optimize outcomes.

Analyze and report on key talent related metrics like utilization, staff deployment, project performance.

Key Responsibilities:

Career Development

• Provide career guidance and mentorship to consultants and be keenly aware of consultants’ preferences and performance based on frequent personal interactions.

• Proactively seek informal feedback from Partners, Principals and Engagement Managers as projects are ending to ensure any development objectives are taken into account for future staffing assignments and development.

• Drive the majoring and affiliation process.

• Work closely with the local CCG Partner and fellow TMs to ensure consultants fully understand feedback and areas for developments and coach consultants on how best to meet firm expectations.

• Ensure skills & experiences are updated based on project reviews.

• Track and proactively manage consultant learning & development in IMEA.

Performance Management

• Actively engage in career review process at MY and YE, working closely with the performance management team, the TM team and relevant business stakeholders like the CCG partner.

• Ensure project reviews are triggered correctly and delivered in a timely manner.

• Track consultants’ progress against development objectives and initiate any next steps if applicable.

• Support Talent Development Plans (TDPs) and related actions.

Staffing

• Collaborate with project leaders to assess staffing needs and relevant details.

• Coordinate and interact daily with CCG and ACG TM colleagues to collaboratively provide best team options across IMEA, carefully balancing skill requirements and career aspirations.

• Manage Business Development, IC and other internal requests.

• Manage consultants’ leave request approvals and extensions.

• Keep the staffing system up do date at all times.

• Maintain up to date data including availability, project experience, areas of expertise & interest, competency & skills development, utilization and overall career progression.

Talent Management

• Address any work life balance challenges raised, closely liaising with the broader TM team as well as the IMEA Wellbeing Lead.

• Drive and implement talent management programs like MBA sponsorship programs, BOOST, LoA programs, transfers, etc.).

• Support office culture and staff engagement in close coordination with office leader, CCG committee and TM Lead.

Experience Required

• Ideal candidates will have a bachelor’s degree and 2-4 years of relevant professional experience in a fast-paced and dynamic client services business environment. Talent management or Consulting Experience preferred.

• Experience balancing ever-changing work demands in a challenging environment with numerous stakeholders.

• Proven ability to foster relationships at all levels of the organization.

Skills and Attributes

• Proactive, positive and a problem solver.

• High level of energy, creativity and initiative-taking.

• Excellent communicator – able to deal effectively with people at all levels in a multicultural work environment.

• Methodical, organized and excellent attention to detail.

• Ability to maintain and respect confidentiality.

• One who takes constructive feedback in stride and incorporates feedback quickly.

• Collaborative team player.

Technical Skills

• Strong Word, Excel and Outlook skills.

• Fluent in English (written and verbal).

• Experience working with a resource management system highly desirable.

• Proficient with data analysis and reporting.

Why join us at Oliver Wyman?

At Oliver Wyman, we lead with heart - we love what we do and have fun while we do it! We also strive for breakthroughs by questioning, seeking diverse perspectives, and finding powerful and sustainable solutions. If you share these values and want to work as one and own our impact at the same time, be brave and achieve the amazing with us!

• We’re individuals who are self-starting, motivated, energetic, entrepreneurial about what we do

• We have the common aspiration to have an impact, leave a legacy and change the world. We have no interest in running a steady-state business. We want to build, grow and shape the environment around us

• We value an environment where every member of Oliver Wyman is encouraged and expected to voice his or her opinion

• We believe that to create a true meritocracy we need to remove artificial barriers to opportunity

• We value people whose lives balance work and non-work activities because we believe they are both more interesting colleagues and are able to make better contributions to the Firm.

• We push ourselves hard to deliver excellence, but we also work to extract the maximum benefit from the flexibility of a project-based business. We provide the ability to take career breaks for personal or family reasons. We fundamentally value each other’s time and are sensitive to how it is used. We are an output not input-based culture, have respect for people’s personal decisions, and believe that one's workload must be sustainable. We seek balance for ourselves and our colleagues.

Oliver Wyman is a wholly owned subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan Companies [NYSE: MMC]. For more information, visit www.oliverwyman.com. Follow Oliver Wyman on Twitter @OliverWyman.