Actuarial - Senior HC Business Partner - NY​/Chicago

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The Senior Human Capital (HC) Business Partner serves as a senior strategic advisor to Oliver Wyman Actuarial's Property & Casualty and Life practices. Embedded closely with practice leadership, this role acts as a key conduit between the practices and the HC team, bringing practice insight, needs, and risks back to HC so the function can provide timely, aligned, and commercially grounded support to the business.

In close partnership with the Director of HC, the role helps translate firm-wide HC strategy, talent priorities, and people initiatives into practice-level action while ensuring business realities inform HC decision‑making and priorities.

This individual will serve as a trusted thought partner and change agent, helping marry the firm-wide HC vision with business priorities to enable growth, strengthen engagement, and sustain Oliver Wyman Actuarial's distinctive culture.

This role combines strategic Human Capital business partnership, tactical involvement in the delivery of key HC programs and processes such as performance management, and support for continuous improvement and operational excellence within the Oliver Wyman Actuarial HC function. As the business continues to evolve and pursue significant growth opportunities, this individual will play a critical role in helping navigate change, strengthen leadership capabilities, and ensure colleagues remain highly engaged and motivated.

The successful candidate will have a true seat at the table with practice leadership and will be expected to offer leaders constructive guidance, build deep trust and credibility, and influence decisions across a broad range of talent and organizational topics, in full alignment with our overarching HC vision and strategy. They will partner closely with colleagues across functions including Talent Development, Compensation, Mobility, Employee Relations, Finance, Recruiting, among others, to deliver an excellent colleague experience.

• Serve as the go-to Human Capital partner to the leadership teams of the Property & Casualty and Life practices.
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, helping translate business strategy into people priorities and actionable plans, in alignment with the firm-wide HC strategy.
• Be an active contributor to practice leadership discussions, bringing a strategic Human Capital perspective to business decisions.
• Build strong relationships and credibility across all levels of the organization, influencing leaders through data, deep business understanding, HR expertise, sound judgment, and trust.
• Partner with leadership to anticipate organizational challenges and proactively develop solutions that support business objectives, and/or partner with others in the HC function (e.g., Talent Development) to bring these solutions to life.

• Lead and support complex organizational and people-related change initiatives, including developing plans for change management, stakeholder engagement, and communications.
• Help leaders navigate periods of transformation while maintaining colleague engagement, productivity, and culture.
• Identify organizational risks and opportunities associated with business change, partnering with the Director of HC…