Oliver Wyman
Performance Management Lead
- Permanent
- Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Experience 5 - 10 yrs
Job expiry date: 30/03/2026
Job overview
Date posted
13/02/2026
Location
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Salary
AED 20,000 - 30,000 per month
Compensation
Job description
The Performance Management Lead – IMEA role at Oliver Wyman is a high-impact, senior position responsible for overseeing and driving the performance management function across India, the Middle East, and Africa. Reporting to regional leadership, the incumbent heads the IMEA Performance Management Team and partners with Talent Management, HC Operations, and Leadership teams to ensure the successful execution of performance review processes and development initiatives for all consulting cohorts, including CCG, ACG, Specialists, Analysts, and Interns. This role blends strategy, people analytics, and talent operations, focusing on designing, implementing, and evolving Oliver Wyman’s global performance system (ADVANCE) within the region. The role includes monitoring consultant performance trajectories, identifying early warning signals, recommending interventions, facilitating calibration discussions, maintaining quality assurance aligned with competency frameworks, and providing advisory support on performance and development decisions. Responsibilities extend to building and maintaining performance dashboards, analyzing review data to identify trends and capability gaps, translating insights into actionable recommendations for leadership, supporting pyramid/capacity planning, and ensuring data integrity across tools and templates. The lead drives process excellence by managing mid-year and year-end review cycles end-to-end, leveraging automation, Workday and SuccessFactors capabilities, and improving processes to deliver a seamless consultant experience. Additionally, the role involves identifying learning and coaching needs, partnering with L&D teams to translate insights into interventions, training consultants and reviewers on self-evaluation, feedback delivery, and review writing, and fostering collaboration across Talent Management, HC Operations, L&D, and business leadership. Candidates are expected to thrive in a fast-paced, global consulting environment, effectively influencing senior stakeholders, managing multiple projects, and applying data-driven insights to drive organizational performance and talent development across the IMEA region.
Required skills
Key responsibilities
- Lead and manage the IMEA Performance Management Team, ensuring successful execution of performance review cycles, development processes, and talent management initiatives across India, Middle East, and Africa
- Drive implementation and continuous improvement of Oliver Wyman’s global ADVANCE performance system in the region, ensuring alignment with organizational competency frameworks and global standards
- Monitor consultant performance trajectories, identify early warning signals, recommend interventions, and provide advisory support to Talent Managers and leadership on performance cases including PIPs and TDPs
- Facilitate calibration discussions, ensure consistency across performance reviews, maintain quality assurance, and translate insights into actionable recommendations for talent and leadership teams
- Build and maintain performance dashboards using Tableau, Excel, and internal systems, analyze review data to identify trends in performance, utilization, and capability gaps across levels, geographies, and industries
- Lead end-to-end mid-year and year-end review cycles, including communications, logistics, documentation, stakeholder management, and ensuring adherence to process standards
- Champion process excellence by leveraging automation, Workday, SuccessFactors, and other tools to ensure seamless, consistent, and high-quality performance management processes
- Collaborate with Learning & Development teams to translate review insights into targeted coaching, training, and development interventions for consultants and reviewers
- Train consultants and reviewers on effective self-evaluations, feedback delivery, and review writing, promoting a culture of continuous learning and development
- Build strong partnerships with Talent Management, HC Operations, L&D, and business leadership to drive alignment, process improvements, and adoption of performance management best practices
- Support pyramid/capacity planning and workforce reporting, ensuring accurate data and insights inform talent and operational decisions across the region
Experience & skills
- 6+ years of relevant experience in performance management, people analytics, consulting operations, or HR strategy roles, preferably within management consulting, Big 4 advisory, or multinational professional services environments
- Proven experience managing performance or talent programs across multiple stakeholders and geographies with measurable impact
- Demonstrated ability to interpret data, generate insights, and provide actionable recommendations for talent and leadership decisions
- Strong analytical, organized, and detail-oriented mindset with the ability to work independently and influence senior stakeholders
- Experience with performance management tools such as ADVANCE, Workday, SuccessFactors, Tableau, and Excel dashboards
- Excellent project management and communication skills, including stakeholder management, facilitation of calibration discussions, and cross-functional collaboration
- Ability to lead end-to-end performance review cycles, maintain data integrity, and implement process improvements leveraging automation and analytics
- Experience training and coaching teams on self-evaluation, feedback delivery, review writing, and competency frameworks
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, global consulting environment with flexibility for hybrid work and in-office attendance as required
- Collaborative problem solver with curiosity and insight orientation, capable of influencing and driving change in complex organizational environments