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About the Role

As an Associate / Engagement Manager, you will play a central role in delivering high-impact client engagements while taking increasing responsibility for team leadership, client relationships, and the development of our Private Capital business.

Responsibilities

Structure complex problems by translating investment questions and strategic challenges into clear hypotheses, workstreams, and analytical priorities.
Lead commercial due diligence and value creation engagements, assessing market attractiveness, competitive dynamics, customer behaviour, business models, growth opportunities, and key investment risks.
Identify the critical value drivers behind an investment thesis, distinguishing the issues that can materially influence returns from those that are less consequential.
Design and oversee rigorous analyses, drawing on primary research, financial and operational data, market intelligence, expert interviews, and other sources to build fact-based perspectives.
Synthesize complex findings into clear investment implications and recommendations that can inform investment committee, management, and board-level decisions.
Translate diligence insights into actionable value creation opportunities, helping investors and portfolio company management teams identify and prioritize initiatives to accelerate growth, strengthen commercial performance, improve operations, or enhance strategic positioning.
Manage project teams and major workstreams, setting priorities, allocating responsibilities, coaching junior colleagues, and ensuring consistently high-quality delivery within demanding transaction timelines.
Own day-to-day client interactions, building trusted relationships with investment professionals, corporate executives, portfolio company management teams, and other stakeholders.
Communicate effectively with senior audiences, developing compelling presentations and confidently discussing findings, recommendations, risks, and areas requiring further investigation.
Collaborate across Oliver Wyman's global network, bringing together sector, functional, analytical, and geographic expertise to provide clients with differentiated perspectives.
Contribute to the growth of the Private Capital Practice in Japan, including developing intellectual capital, identifying emerging investment themes, supporting proposals, and contributing to client development initiatives.
Support the development of our people, providing thoughtful coaching and feedback and helping create an inclusive, collaborative, and high-performing team environment.

Requirements

Approximately 4–8+ years of relevant professional experience, with the appropriate level determined by the depth of experience and demonstrated leadership capabilities.
Meaningful experience in commercial due diligence, private equity, corporate strategy, or value creation, ideally gained within a leading strategy consulting firm, transaction-focused advisory business, private capital investor, or relevant corporate strategy/in-house consulting environment.
A strong understanding of the investment lifecycle and transaction environment, with the ability to evaluate businesses through both a strategic and investor lens.
Experience leading project teams or significant workstreams, including managing competing priorities and delivering high-quality outputs under tight deadlines.
Strong commercial judgement and analytical capability, with the ability to work with quantitative and qualitative information, identify patterns and insights, challenge assumptions, and draw robust conclusions.
Excellent problem-solving and synthesis skills, including the ability to move from detailed analysis to the few conclusions that matter most to a client or investment decision.
The ability to communicate complex ideas clearly, concisely, and persuasively, both verbally and in written presentations.
Confidence working with senior clients and stakeholders, coupled with the judgement to understand their priorities and anticipate questions and concerns.
An entrepreneurial mindset and willingness to take ownership, seek out opportunities, and contribute beyond immediate project responsibilities.
Intellectual curiosity and creativity — you enjoy investigating unfamiliar markets and businesses, asking incisive questions, and developing new approaches to difficult problems.
A collaborative leadership style and genuine interest in coaching and developing colleagues.
Professional fluency in Japanese and English. For non-native Japanese speakers, JLPT N1 or equivalent business-level proficiency is expected.
Flexibility and willingness to travel depending on client and project requirements.

Skills

Commercial due diligence
Private equity
Corporate strategy
Value creation
Investment lifecycle
Transaction environment
Analytical capability
Problem-solving
Synthesis
Communication
Client relationship management
Team leadership
Coaching
Intellectual curiosity
Creativity
Entrepreneurial mindset

Location

Japan

Work Type

Hybrid
Onsite

Experience Level

Associate / Engagement Manager
4-8+ years

About the Company

Oliver Wyman is a global leader in management consulting with offices in over 70 cities across 30 countries.
The firm 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.