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 Recruiting Manager to join our IMEA Experienced Hires Recruitment Team!
The role can be based out of our Dubai, Riyadh or Doha office.
Job Overview:
We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced individual to join our team as a Recruiting Manager. In this role, you will not only play a crucial part in managing candidates through the interview and hiring process but also have the unique opportunity to lead a small team of talented recruiting professionals. The ideal candidate will bring a track record of successfully sourcing and recruiting top-tier talent while demonstrating strong coaching skills to guide and mentor the team.
This role is an exciting growth opportunity to work in a complex and fast-growing market with direct exposure to our IMEA Partners and other senior internal clients.
Key Responsibilities:
Manage the full-cycle recruiting process across multiple searches, with a primary focus on experienced and senior hire-level hires
Design and implement innovative, region-specific strategies to attract, engage, and secure the best talent
Build and maintain strong talent pipelines through proactive sourcing, networking, and relationship-building with potential candidates
Coordinate closely with recruiting team members on our research strategy, market mapping and competitor analysis
Foster collaborative relationships within the team, broader firm functions, and external agencies/vendors
Manage and mentor a team to encourage growth, creativity, and accountability
Experience Required:
At least 8 years of relevant professional experience in a fast-paced and dynamic client services business environment
Experience working in professional services or other client-driven environments in the Middle East region is highly desirable
Proven track record in hiring talent within strategy consulting, good knowledge of market trends, competitors, and general talent availability across the Middle East, Africa and India.
Experience managing senior stakeholder relationships across a dynamic and complex matrix structure
Skills and Attributes:
Outstanding organization and time management skills, including the ability to manage multiple deliverables simultaneously
Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
Strong PowerPoint and Microsoft Excel skills, high attention to detail and ability to convey a narrative through the use of data and research
Strong sense of ownership and experience proactively taking initiative, collaboratively driving strategy, using sound judgment to prioritize requests, and working with minimal direction
Familiarity with recruitment tools and applicant tracking systems (ATS)
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.