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About the Role

As a Principal in our Private Capital Practice, you will be a senior leader combining deep expertise with responsibility for client relationships, complex engagement delivery, business development, and practice growth. You will serve as a trusted advisor to senior clients, bringing an investor mindset to complex strategic and transaction questions to help clients make high-stakes decisions and identify value creation opportunities.

Responsibilities

Lead complex Private Capital engagements across commercial due diligence, vendor due diligence, investment strategy, portfolio value creation, and other transaction-related situations.
Shape the strategic direction of engagements, framing critical questions, challenging investment hypotheses, and identifying key risks and upside.
Serve as a trusted advisor to senior clients, building relationships with private equity investment professionals, operating partners, portfolio company executives, and corporate leaders.
Oversee high-quality case execution, guiding teams through sophisticated analyses and ensuring rigorous and timely delivery.
Translate insights into actionable recommendations for clients.
Communicate with impact at senior levels, leading executive discussions and presenting compelling perspectives.
Develop and expand client relationships, originating opportunities and shaping proposals.
Contribute to the growth of the Private Capital franchise in Japan by identifying priority clients, sectors, and investment themes.
Build distinctive intellectual capital and market perspectives.
Connect clients with relevant sector, functional, and geographic expertise from across Oliver Wyman's network.
Develop talent by coaching and sponsoring consultants and managers, providing feedback, and fostering a collaborative team environment.
Build external and internal profiles, developing recognition as an expert and contributing to the partnership.

Requirements

Approximately 9-12 years of relevant professional experience, ideally gained within a leading strategy consulting firm or similarly rigorous, project-based environment.
Significant experience in Private Capital and transaction-related work, with a strong track record in commercial due diligence and ideally broader exposure to portfolio value creation, corporate strategy, M&A, or post-transaction transformation.
Demonstrated ability to lead complex engagements and multiple workstreams, providing direction to teams while maintaining quality and pace.
Strong understanding of the private equity investment lifecycle and investor mindset.
Track record of developing trusted relationships with senior clients, with credibility and judgment to challenge, influence, and advise senior executives.
Strong commercial instincts and business development capabilities.
Exceptional strategic problem-solving and analytical skills.
Ability to combine deep expertise with a broader commercial perspective.
Outstanding communication, synthesis, and executive presence.
Demonstrated experience leading, coaching, and developing consulting teams.
Ability and motivation to develop thought leadership and intellectual capital.
An entrepreneurial mindset and enthusiasm for building and growing a business.
Flexibility and willingness to travel depending on client and project requirements.

Skills

Strategy
Operations
Risk Management
Organization Transformation
Commercial Due Diligence
Investment Strategy
Portfolio Value Creation
M&A
Post-Transaction Transformation
Quantitative Analysis
Qualitative Analysis
Market Assessment
Competitive Analysis
Executive Communication
Client Relationship Management
Business Development
Team Leadership
Coaching
Thought Leadership

Location

Japan

Work Type

Hybrid
Full-time

Experience Level

Principal
Senior Leader

Education Level

Undergraduate degree required
MBA or equivalent welcomed but not essential

Benefits

Opportunity to advise leading investors and businesses on consequential investment and strategic decisions.
Work alongside colleagues with deep industry and functional expertise.
Entrepreneurial culture allowing shaping of expertise, building client relationships, developing intellectual capital, and contributing to firm growth.
Opportunity to combine high-impact client work with practice-building responsibility.
Help grow client relationships, develop people, strengthen market proposition, and shape the future of the Private Capital franchise in Japan.

About the Company

Oliver Wyman is a global leader in management consulting with offices in over 70 cities across 30 countries.
The firm combines deep industry knowledge with specialized expertise in strategy, operations, risk management, and organization transformation.
Oliver Wyman has 7,000 professionals worldwide who help clients optimize their business, improve operations and risk profile, and accelerate organizational performance.
Oliver Wyman's Private Capital Practice advises leading private equity firms, principal investors, portfolio companies, and corporations across the investment and transaction lifecycle.
The practice combines deep industry expertise, rigorous commercial analysis, and value creation capabilities to help clients make better investment decisions and deliver superior returns.
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.
Marsh has annual revenue of over $27 billion and more than 95,000 colleagues.

Equal Opportunity

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.