Senior Learning Product Manager - London, United Kingdom - Oliver Wyman Group

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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 wholly owned subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan Companies [NYSE: MMC]. For more information, visit

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    Oliver Wyman is now looking for a Senior Learning Product Manager in our London office.

    Job Overview:

    We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Senior Product Manager to join our global L&D team. In this role, you will be responsible for overseeing the impact and development of learning products for our internal employees. Products may include in-person programs, virtual live offerings, digital on-demand curriculum, externally curated courseware, and blended programs.

    As the Senior Product Manager, you will work closely with cross-functional teams to align with business and talent priorities, identify learning needs, define product strategy, develop and enhance a portfolio of product, and measure and ensure overall impact.

    Key Responsibilities:

    • Build alignment, excitement, and trust with senior stakeholders through end-to-end accountability for solving business problems
    • Independently align our learning strategy to business and talent priorities for a specific population or set of skills
    • Independently conduct comprehensive, deeply insightful needs analysis among internal employees to identify learning gaps and performance improvement opportunities.
    • Develop deep expertise on relevant subject matter, including curation and when needed (co)creation based on internal and external perspectives
    • Lead collaboration with subject matter experts, department heads, and instructional designers to define learning objectives and create effective learning strategies tailored to our internal workforce.
    • Independently develop and maintain a roadmap for the creation and enhancement of learning products and solutions for our internal employees.
    • Foster high-performing, healthy product teams including designers, subject matter experts, delivery specialists, and technology colleagues.
    • Pro-actively identify and pursue opportunities to create even more value on the basis of ongoing assessment and evaluation of learning products.
    • Pro-actively invest in staying up-to-date with –and sharing with others-- industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in learning design and delivery to enhance our learning products.
    • Lead collaboration with HR and talent development teams to align learning initiatives with organizational goals and development plans.

    What we'd love to see from you/ Key Skills :

    • 8+ years of experience in product management, talent management, organizational development, strategic consulting, or similar roles
    • Master's degree in business, organizational development, design, human resources, finance, or a related field is preferred, or equivalent experience.
    • Experience translating business requirements to talent and development solutions, for instance conducting needs analysis and creating learning strategies to address identified gaps.
    • Experience working in an agile development environment is a plus.
    • Experience in professional services industry is a plus.
    • Proficient in using data and analytics to measure the impact and effectiveness of learning solutions.
    • Familiarity with learning management systems (LMS), learning experience platforms (LXP), and e-learning authoring tools is preferred.

    Skills and Attributes:

    • Excellent problem-solving skills demonstrated with a variety of stakeholders and multi-disciplinary teams.
    • Excellent project management skills, including the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
    • Compelling communicator and trust builder with senior executives, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
    • Passion for learning and development, and a deep understanding of current trends and innovations in this profession.

    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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