About Oliver Wyman

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 organizational transformation. Our 7,000 professionals help clients 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.

For more information, visit www.oliverwyman.com

Job Overview:

We are seeking experienced research professional to join Oliver Wyman Knowledge Services Department. You will work closely with partners and consultants to support secondary research efforts, ensure successful delivery of client work.

The Knowledge Services Department supports our consultants with planning and execution of on-demand research projects as well as the interpretation, evaluation, and preparation of results. You will have expert level research skills and ability to quickly develop knowledge of research tools to facilitate effective and creative research approaches. You will be helping consultants and research colleagues to scope and develop their research needs, conduct timely, accurate and cost-effective research and deliver compelling synthesized research products. You will work with a wide range of information tools and proprietary databases to provide research for client projects and business development

Key Responsibilities:

• Work with a wide range of information tools and proprietary databases, providing both quick solutions and in-depth research for the business.
• Synthesize information and glean key concepts and trends from the information, provide own point of view and basic insights in the deliverables. Ability to think critically and develop the most efficient solutions to information requirements is key in this role.
• Collaborate with consultants engaged in client service, business development or intellectual capital building by delivering highly relevant and well-synthesized research. Directly engage in strategic projects, together with our research specialists and consultants, contribute to updates and maintenance of customized knowledge products
• Develop strong trusted relationships with practice members and research colleagues to promote effective knowledge sharing and positive work environment.
• Independently manage the pipeline of industry-specific tasks, set priorities, and collaborate with a team of international colleagues to meet client demands. You will be required to exercise independent judgment to solve internal client demands. This will involve prioritizing your own work to satisfy competing needs and building excellent task management and time management skills
• Use MS Office tools to produce graphical portrayal of research findings, customized to project needs

Experience and Skills required:

• 3-5 years of experience as a research professional in management consultancy, technology firm, investment bank, private equity, asset management, or research provider.
• Familiarity with Bloomberg, LSEG-Eikon-Refinitiv, S&P Capital IQ, and similar market data resources.
• Ability to operate under pressure and tight deadlines to meet the needs of a high paced globally focused. This requires the ability to manage several tasks effectively while prioritizing and managing your own time
• Creative problem-solving skills and inquisitive nature with tenacious drive to solve complex research challenges.
• Attention to detail and high accuracy
• Excellent communication skills and research synthesis skills allowing you to draw out key insights and to provide basic data analysis.
• The ability to apply Generative AI tools to enhance efficiency and quality of research deliverables
• Excellent Excel skills. Proficiency with rest of MS Office suite. Experience with Power BI is an advantage.
• Proficiency in either Japanese or Mandarin is preferred to support business operations across the Asia-Pacific region
• Only applicants with current Malaysian work rights will be considered — no work visa sponsorship provided.

Oliver Wyman is a business of Marsh (NYSE: MRSH), a global leader in risk, reinsurance and capital, people and investments, and management consulting, advising clients in 130 countries. With annual revenue of over $27 billion and more than 95,000 colleagues, Marsh helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective. For more information, visit oliverwyman.com, or follow us on LinkedIn and X.

Marsh 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 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 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.