Company:Oliver Wyman
Description:Job descriptionOliver Wyman's Health Practice is seeking a Manager/Senior Manager, Business Analyst to support complex technology, data, and business initiatives across the health insurance and healthcare sectors.
The Manager/Senior Manager, Business Analyst will partner with Product Owners, actuaries, consultants, technology teams, and clients to translate business needs into practical solutions. This role will lead initiatives from discovery through implementation, manage requirements and backlogs, support Agile delivery, and ensure solutions deliver measurable value.
The ideal candidate has strong business analysis and project delivery experience, excellent communication skills, and knowledge of health insurance, healthcare, actuarial consulting, or related financial services.
Responsibilities- Partner with Product Owners, consultants, clients, and technology teams to define objectives, roadmaps, and delivery priorities.
- Lead requirements gathering, stakeholder interviews, workshops, process analysis, and solution design.
- Develop business requirements, process flows, user stories, functional requirements, and acceptance criteria.
- Translate complex business, actuarial, operational, and regulatory needs into clear direction for delivery teams.
- Manage and refine product backlogs, ensuring features and user stories align with business priorities.
- Facilitate Agile ceremonies, including planning, backlog refinement, showcases, and retrospectives.
- Support initiatives involving health insurance, healthcare analytics, pricing, product development, reserving, risk management, regulatory matters, and strategic planning.
- Collaborate with System Analysts, developers, actuaries, data scientists, and quality assurance teams.
- Support user acceptance testing, business validation, implementation readiness, and stakeholder sign-off.
- Track scope, risks, issues, dependencies, and decisions across multiple workstreams.
- Present recommendations, options, and trade-offs to senior stakeholders.
- Mentor junior Business Analysts and contribute to continuous improvement of delivery practices.
- Build strong relationships with clients, colleagues, and industry stakeholders.
Qualifications- Bachelor's or master's degree in Business, Actuarial Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Finance, Information Systems, or a related field.
- 7+ years of experience in business analysis, product delivery, consulting, healthcare, health insurance, actuarial services, or a related field.
- Experience leading business analysis activities from discovery through implementation.
- Experience working in an Agile environment, including Scrum or Kanban.
- Strong knowledge of requirements gathering, process modeling, user stories, acceptance criteria, backlog management, and user acceptance testing.
- Experience working with Product Owners, technology teams, business stakeholders, and senior leaders.
- Knowledge of health insurance, healthcare, employee benefits, actuarial consulting, or the broader insurance industry preferred.
- Strong analytical, critical-thinking, problem-solving, project management, and organizational skills.
- Excellent written, verbal, facilitation, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to work independently, manage competing priorities, and make sound decisions with limited direction.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint; experience with Visio, Access, Jira, or Azure DevOps preferred.
- Experience with SQL, R, SAS, VBA, Python, or another programming language is a plus.
The applicable base salary range for this role is $140,000- $200,000.
The base pay offered will be determined on factors such as experience, skills, training, location, certifications, and education, and any applicable minimum wage requirements. Decisions will be determined on a case-by-case basis.
In addition to the base salary, this position may be eligible for performance-based incentives.
We are excited to offer a competitive total rewards package which includes health and welfare benefits, tuition assistance, 401K savings and other retirement programs as well as employee assistance programs.
