Oliver Wyman - Entry-level Consultant (2027) - Tokyo

Company:

Oliver Wyman

Description:

Who We Are

At Oliver Wyman, a Marsh (NYSE: MRSH) business, we bring deep industry insight, bold innovation, and a collaborative approach that cuts through complexity to help organizations navigate their most defining transformative moments.

As a business of Marsh, we work alongside the world’s leading experts across risk, reinsurance and capital, people and investments, and management consulting. Together with Marsh Risk, Guy Carpenter, and Mercer, we help organizations build resilience and competitive advantages from every angle. With annual revenue over $27 billion and more than 95,000 colleagues in 130 countries, 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.

What You Will Do

As a new joiner at Oliver Wyman, you will have the opportunity to work on interesting problems for large clients worldwide, developing your expertise quickly and making an immediate impact. You'll work alongside senior colleagues and clients, working as one to help to solve complex problems and drive meaningful change. 

We believe in providing our consultants with the freedom and support they need to succeed in their own way. We provide an apprenticeship model for learning on the job, supplemented by formal training to help you rapidly develop your communication, presentation, and client management skills. 

Additionally, around your second year of employment, you will have the opportunity to participate in an optional rotational program. This program allows for a transfer to our Singapore office, or another mutually agreed location, for a duration of 12 months. After completing the rotation, you will return to your base in Tokyo.

Why Join Us

Come aboard if you enjoy solving interesting problems and at ease working across different cultures. You will step out of your comfort zone, finding stretch opportunities along every step of the journey. You will also find genuine colleagues who speak their minds and measure success not by the number of hours worked but by what gets accomplished.  ​ 

Immediate impact, continuous challenge

• You’ll work on challenging projects that have a significant impact on clients, industries, and societies from day one
• We’ll ask you to challenge the norm and constantly strive to build something new to shape our firm and the world around us
• You’ll be a contributing team member from the start, working with senior colleagues and clients to build trust-based relationships and deliver breakthrough impact
• Your experience will be diverse, with each project offering new opportunities to expand your toolkit and to team with Specialists who have deep subject-matter and technical expertise

Chart your course; we support the journey

• You’ll have the opportunity to work across a wide variety of industries and capabilities and you can decide to specialize early or leave it until several years in

• You’ll learn on the job via our apprenticeship model, supplemented by formal training. Much of your initial focus will be on research and analysis, and we’ll support you in rapidly developing your communication, presentation, and client-management skills
• We care about you succeeding and you’ll be supported every step of the way. You will be mentored and coached by colleagues at each stage, from partners and other consultants to a dedicated “buddy,” career adviser, and talent manager
• We believe inspired people with interesting lives make better consultants. We care deeply about sustainable work-life quality and provide for career flexibility with a variety of programs including sabbaticals, non-profit fellowships, and externships

We hire you to be you

• Our open, inclusive, and down-to-earth culture will enable you to bring your authentic self to work
• There’s no corporate mold to fit and hierarchy doesn’t get in the way
• Many of your colleagues will become life-long friends

Who Can Apply

• We look for people who display initiative, intuition, and creativity with a strong problem solving and analytical mindset. We do not require specific academic majors or industry experience and look for diversity of experience and skills. We value extracurricular activities and evidence of leading an interesting and impactful life outside of your studies.
• Eligibility: Overseas-studying students who will be graduating between April 2027 and July 2027.
• Language requirements: Fluency in English is required globally. For Tokyo, Japanese fluency is mandatory; candidates who have learned Japanese as a second language must present JLPT N1 certification.

How To Apply
Please combine below required documents into 1 PDF and submit:

• Resume in English (with GPA and anticipated graduation time clearly listed)
• Cover letter in English
• All past academic transcripts (from undergraduate year 1 until now)

*Your application will be automatically turned down if the document doesn’t meet the requirements.

Please submit your application to only ONE role/office within Asia-Pacific and refrain from submitting any duplicate applications.

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.