Junior Talent Manager (f/m/d) - Frankfurt

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Oliver Wyman is a global leader in management consulting. With offices in more than 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 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 business of Marsh McLennan [NYSE: MMC]. For more information, visit

www.oliverwyman.com.

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

Oliver Wyman is now looking for a Junior Talent Manager (Staffing/ Resource Management). This role can be based in Frankfurt or Munich.

Job Overview:

The responsibilities of the Junior Talent Manager are to:

• Ensure the day-to-day operations of staffing and talent management for a portfolio of consultants and to support the TM team in the Market
• Engage actively and personally with consultants, as well as get to know and understand their current strengths and development objectives, personal preferences and career goals
• Frequently interact with Partners across the Market, the Practice TM leads, and other Talent Managers across the region to understand and address project staffing needs and balance them with consultants’ preferences and career goals
• Coordinate successful on-boarding of consultants and facilitate their integration in the company

He/she will be part of the GnA Talent Management team and will be working in close collaboration with the broader European Talent Management team and the respective local Partners.

Key responsibilities of the role include:

Staffing

• Managing the staffing of consultants, considering balances between project requirements and execution, development objectives and personal preferences
• For assigned projects, collecting all relevant details on from Partners and/or Practice TM leads on projects to be staffed collaborating with the entire GnA TM team, European Practice TM leads and more broadly accordingly to needs
• Overseeing local utilization, ensure that trapped capacity is limited
• Managing vacation approval process and attendance to trainings

Career management including on-boarding, performance management and career development:

• Preparing onboarding and managing the integration of the new hires and interns
• Proactively seeking informal feedback as projects are ending to ensure issues and development objectives are taken into account for next staffing assignment as appropriate; seeking informal feedback every 2-3 months on longer projects
• Providing career advice to consultants and be keenly aware of consultants’ preferences and performance based on frequent personal interactions
• Participating in the organization of the Mid-Year and Year-End performance management processes in collaboration with Talent Management team in GnA
• Identifying training needs and coordinating with Training teams
• Advising on, and locally managing, Oliver Wyman talent management programs and business school sponsorship
• Ensuring skills and experiences are updated based on project reviews
• Acting as a person of trust for consultants regarding work related issues such as career development, work-life-balance or conflict resolution
• Monitoring consultant office morale in close collaboration with office leadership
• Working on project-based initiatives
• Primary responsibility for consultant data integrity – trainings attended, staffing status and other data required for consultants’ development

Who we think will be perfect for this role…

Experience required:

• You’ll have a Bachelor or Master degree and will have at least 1-2 years of relevant professional experience in a fast-paced and dynamic client services business environment/ Talent management experience preferred
• You’ll have experience balancing ever-changing work demands in a challenging environment with numerous stakeholders to satisfy
• You’ll have proven ability to foster relationships at all levels of the organization

Skills and Attributes:

• You ’ll be a team player: Collaborative and works effectively as part of a high-performing team
• You’ll be client service oriented: Credible, highly professional, able to communicate and negotiate effectively with our internal (TM) teams, Partners and consultants
• You’ll be result oriented and have ability to problem solve in a fast-paced environment
• You’ll be creative and a strategic thinker, who continually seeks ways to improve the way things are done
• You’ll be a proactive, high performing multi-tasker who takes full ownership of their work and manages the details
• You’ll be genuinely interested in the development and career success of the consultants
• You’ll be organized and rigorous: Attention to detail and a stickler for accuracy

Technical skills:

• Fluent in German and English
• Excellent MS Office skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and collaboration tools

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.

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