Oliver Wyman : Lead - Pricing / Supply Chain / Procurement Analytics

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Oliver Wyman : Lead - Pricing / Supply Chain / Procurement Analytics

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LEAD – BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION ANALYTICS

Functional specialization: Pricing, Procurement or Supply Chain | Location: Hyderabad

About Oliver Wyman 

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 $24 billion and more than 90,000 colleagues in 130 countries, Marsh helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective.   

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OW DNA Overview

Oliver Wyman DNA is a center of excellence for business and data analytics within Oliver Wyman. The team combines advanced analytics and data science capabilities with core consulting expertise to support engagement teams, generate actionable business insights, and deliver measurable impact for clients.

Role Summary

The Lead will own end-to-end analytical delivery across multiple workstreams, partnering closely with global consulting teams, clients, and internal stakeholders. The role requires deep expertise in at least one functional area—Pricing, Procurement, or Supply Chain—together with strong business acumen, structured problem-solving, and advanced proficiency in SQL/Python and Excel. The Lead will translate complex business questions into robust analytical approaches, guide Analysts and Senior Analysts through execution, and ensure high-quality, decision-ready outputs. This is a client-facing leadership role suited to an entrepreneurial professional who can operate independently, manage ambiguity, and drive measurable business outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

Functional Expertise — One Primary Area Required

Candidates should bring strong depth in at least one of the following areas. Exposure to more than one area is advantageous but not required.

• Supply Chain: Demand and supply planning; inventory optimization; logistics and distribution analytics; network design; manufacturing and service-level performance; working capital; end-to-end supply chain diagnostics.

• Procurement: Spend analytics; category and supplier analysis; sourcing opportunity assessment; should-cost and cost-driver analysis; contract and compliance analytics; supplier performance; savings tracking and value realization.

• Pricing: Pricing strategy and execution; price-volume-mix analysis; discount and rebate analytics; segmentation and willingness-to-pay; margin waterfall; deal and quote analytics; price realization and performance tracking.

Team & Delivery Leadership

• Lead and oversee analytical workstreams, ensuring clear scope, robust planning, timely execution, and high-quality outputs.

• Guide Analysts and Senior Analysts through requirement breakdown, analytical design, task planning, execution reviews, and capability development.

• Allocate and prioritize work effectively across competing timelines, dependencies, and stakeholder needs.

• Review SQL pipelines, Excel models, analytical frameworks, and final outputs for accuracy, consistency, scalability, and adherence to best practices.

• Maintain strong governance, documentation, quality controls, and information flow across all deliverables.

• Contribute to knowledge assets, standardized KPI frameworks, and reusable solutions across teams and functional areas.

Business & Analytical Problem Solving

• Interpret financial statements and operational data to identify opportunities across revenue, cost, margin, cash flow, and working capital.

• Translate ambiguous business questions into clear problem statements, hypotheses, analytical pathways, and measurable outcomes.

• Define analytical approaches, estimate effort, identify data requirements, and link outputs to business value.

• Build reusable frameworks, templates, KPI structures, and analytical assets that improve consistency and delivery efficiency.

• Apply functional expertise in Pricing, Procurement, or Supply Chain to diagnose performance gaps and develop practical, data-driven recommendations.

Stakeholder Management

• Serve as a primary point of contact for consulting teams, and internal stakeholders, ensuring alignment on expectations, scope, and outcomes.

• Facilitate discussions to gather requirements, refine problem statements, resolve ambiguities, and build stakeholder alignment.

• Communicate analytical insights in a clear, concise, and business-oriented manner that supports leadership decision-making.

• Build trusted relationships through transparent communication, structured updates, and proactive resolution of risks and issues.

Technical Skills

• Ensure SQL queries/codes, Excel models, data transformations, and analytical workflows are accurate, efficient, scalable, and well documented.

• Identify data gaps, analytical risks, dependencies, and bottlenecks, and design appropriate mitigation strategies.

• Drive continuous improvement in analytical processes, reporting standards, governance, and delivery efficiency.

Experience & Skills Requirements

• Minimum 6 years of relevant experience in analytics-led business transformation, consulting, or a comparable industry role.

• Demonstrated depth in at least one functional area: Pricing, Procurement, or Supply Chain, with a track record of translating analytics into measurable business impact.

• Strong leadership capability, including experience guiding teams through structured problem-solving and high-quality project execution.

• Advanced, hands-on SQL/Python and Excel expertise (non-negotiable), including complex data manipulation, query optimization, modelling logic, and analytical calculations.

• Strong understanding of business and financial drivers, operational KPIs, and value levers relevant to the chosen functional area.

• Experience working with large, complex datasets and integrating data from enterprise systems. Familiarity with platforms such as SAP or comparable pricing/procurement/supply chain systems is beneficial.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage senior and global clients directly.

• Ability to manage multiple workstreams, allocate tasks, balance workloads, and ensure timely, high-quality delivery.

• Entrepreneurial mindset, high ownership, sound judgement, and a proactive approach to identifying risks, improvement opportunities, and new solution pathways.

• Exposure to digital transformation and AI/ML applications is an advantage.