Oliver Wyman - 8Works Collaborative Facilitator

8works are a specialist capability who drive co-creation in Oliver Wyman. We operate at the forefront of accelerating business transformation through design thinking methods. The diverse team of 30 (and growing) passionate professionals are based in London, New York, Berlin and Dubai. We work across sectors and geographies with the world’s biggest brands. We bring a refreshing, open and human approach to work. We use highly immersive, creative and collaborative methods to design elegant solutions to complex challenges; aligning key stakeholders to shared outcomes, whilst dramatically compressing time to results.

Oliver Wyman is a global leader in management consulting. With offices in 50+ cities across 26 countries, Oliver Wyman combines deep industry knowledge with specialized expertise in strategy, operations, risk management, and organization transformation. Our 4700+ 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.

This role is an outstanding opportunity for a talented practitioner who is experienced in the methods and application of design thinking, co-creation and acceleration.

The successful candidate will support the delivery of large, complex design events and lead small sized engagements.

As an integral part of shaping a growing capability, the candidate will embody the firm’s purpose of creating ‘breakthroughs to achieve the amazing’ whilst managing engagements in a dynamic and fast-moving environment where innovation is cherished.

The role will require plugging into the broader Oliver Wyman business in order to successfully deliver the value proposition and capabilities of a high-end strategy firm.

Responsibilities within the role will sit across four key dimensions: Client Engagement Delivery (specialist and core), Business Development, People Leadership and 8works’ Venture Build.

Senior Designer

Experiments, explores and acts as thought partner; designing and delivering great work and experiences with supportive guidance.

You are a quick thinker who is flexible, resourceful and empathetic with clients and team members alike in order to deliver their best.

Engagement Delivery - specialist skills:

• Deliver the outcomes and products Fully participate in delivery activities, owning roles and streams of work with confidence. Provide timely and considered feedback based on observations of client discussion and interactions. Supports the creation of the engagement outputs.
• Design the work Contribute to the shaping of the engagement, building the detailed design, input requirements and writing assignments.
• Define Success Participate in client discussions. Can translate client needs into a clear engagement or event scope.
• Execution Supporting the design and delivery of 8works engagements, events and hubs, to:
• Business knowledge and methodology You present content confidently and articulately, including our approach, philosophy and the models we use.
• Creativity Bring curiosity, new ideas and concepts in how we design and deliver work, via a range of best practice methods and ‘outside: in’ thinking. Ascertain the appetite and confidently ‘push the boundaries’, in a fashion appropriate to the context.