Oliver Wyman – Advanced Degree Immersion Program Health & Life Sciences

*Application Deadline: March 17th at 11:59pm EST*

Please note, this application is for our Advanced Degree Immersion Program. Eligible candidates must currently be enrolled in an Advanced Degree program (e.g., PhD, post-Doc, MD, or PharmD) and plan to complete their degree in 2026. Top candidates will receive full-time offers for our Senior Consultant role. (Earliest start date September 2026.)

About Us

Oliver Wyman is a global leader in management consulting. With offices in 60 cities across 29 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.

The Health & Life Sciences Practice

The HLS practice mission is to “transform healthcare through the relentless pursuit of a better way.” The team works with C-suite and senior executives and management teams across the health and life sciences industry, including Health Insurance, Health Services, Retail and Consumer Health, Healthcare Providers, Health IT, Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology, Medical Device and Diagnostics companies, on wide-ranging issues of strategic impact. We have the expertise needed to help health and life sciences companies address their most pressing strategic questions by delivering critical commercial, marketing, development, portfolio, pricing & market access strategy, and R&D guidance.

Come aboard if you are excited by challenges and at ease working across cultures. You’ll find interesting people who speak their minds and measure success not by how many hours are worked but by what gets accomplished.

The Program

This is 2-day immersive program for Life Sciences Advanced Degree Candidates designed to provide participants with an in-depth view of life sciences strategy consulting at Oliver Wyman.

Top candidates will receive full-time offers for our Senior Consultant role. Earliest available start date is September 2026.

The Senior Consultant Role

PhDs, MDs, and PharmDs play an integral client-facing or work-stream leadership role. The position offers excellent career and growth opportunities for talented, highly motivated professionals. We are seeking candidates for the Consultant Level. Initial responsibilities could include:Managing the execution of individual project modules; developing hypotheses, model creation and analyses, conducting primary and secondary research, and surfacing insightsAnalytics and Problem Solving: Conduct client interviews related to data and process design to solve business problems, construct and lead data collection and analysis, produce client-ready deliverablesClient Relationship Management: Independently lead client interviews, run well organized meetings, act as the direct point of contact with client, effectively obtain feedback and address concernsSupporting our Partner group in project delivery through accurate and high-quality project executionOwning and developing executive client relationships and presenting to a wide range of audiencesManagement of junior team; effectively providing leverage for the senior project staffProfessional Acumen: Demonstrate Oliver Wyman’s core values, high self-awareness, and effective communication skills
 

Desired Skills and Experience

Basic Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree required, PhD, MD, or PharmD degree (have completed by June 2026) in biology, chemistry, biomedical engineering, or other related life sciences field requiredStrong background in conceptual problem solving and analytical skillsAbility to apply depth of content knowledge for thought leadership in project execution, and to develop new intellectual capital to support business development activitiesOutstanding communication skills; confidence in presenting to senior executivesWillingness to travelFull-time start dates will range from September 2026 to January 2027.

 
Preferred Requirements:

Primary (industry expert interviewing) & secondary (industry research, market profiling, journal review) researchData synthesis, analytics (financial modeling, database creating & manipulation, market sizing)Communication and presentation skillsManagement and training of junior staff
 

Locations:

Immersion program: Boston, MA

Full-time options include: New York, NY - Chicago, IL – Boston, MA – San Francisco, CA, Toronto, ON

Oliver Wyman, a business of Marsh McLennan (NYSE: MMC), is a management consulting firm combining deep industry knowledge with specialized expertise to help clients optimize their business, improve operations and accelerate performance. Marsh McLennan is a global leader in risk, strategy and people, advising clients in 130 countries across four businesses: Marsh, Guy Carpenter, Mercer and Oliver Wyman. With annual revenue of $24 billion and more than 90,000 colleagues, Marsh McLennan helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective. For more information, visit oliverwyman.com, or follow on LinkedIn and X.

Marsh McLennan is committed to embracing 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, veteran status (including protected veterans), or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. If you have a need that requires accommodation, please let us know by contacting reasonableaccommodations@mmc.com.

Marsh McLennan 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 McLennan 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.