About Oliver Wyman

Oliver Wyman, a Marsh (NYSE: MRSH) business, is a management consulting firm driven by 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 worlds 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 $27 billion and more than 95,000 colleagues in 130 countries, Marsh helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective.

For more information, visit oliverwyman.com, or follow us on LinkedIn and X.

Job Overview:

Our Quotient Team is seeking a Principal Researcher to serve as a core contributor within the Product Strategy team, providing deep, evidence-based understanding of end users and human behavior to inform firm-wide product, capability, and AI strategy.

This role is a hands-on human insights research expert responsible for executing complex research initiatives and translating findings into clear, decision-ready insights that shape product concepts, strategy narratives, and leadership discussions. The Principal Researcher ensures that product and capability decisions are grounded in rigorous research and strong end-user empathy

Key Responsibilities:

Designing and executing market, qualitative, and quantitative research to inform product and capability strategy

Conducting surveys, interviews, diary studies, desk research, and behavioral research Synthesizing qualitative and quantitative data into clear, decision-grade insights

Developing personas, archetypes, and behavioral frameworks reflecting real user contexts Contributing directly to strategy decks and leadership materials with evidence-based insights

Translating research findings into implications for product concepts, initiatives, and prioritization

Maintaining deep end-user focus, consistently stepping into the shoes of consultants and practitioners

Partnering with Product Strategy, Design, and Product teams to embed insight early in decision making.

Experience Required:

8+ years of experience in user research, consumer insights, human-centered research, or behavioral research

Proven experience conducting both qualitative and quantitative research independently

Demonstrated experience with surveys, diary studies, interviews, synthesis, and behavioral analysis Experience developing personas, archetypes, and behavioral insights to inform strategy or product work

Experience working in or alongside product strategy, design, consulting, or technology teams preferred in a professional services environment Advanced qualitative research execution and synthesis

Survey design and applied quantitative analysis

Research documentation and insight storytelling

Familiarity with research and collaboration tools (survey platforms, Miro/Mural, presentation tools).

Skills and Attributes:

End-user obsessed, with strong empathy and curiosity about human behavior Highly analytical and structured thinke

Compelling communicator, comfortable shaping executive-level decks and narratives

Independent and proactive, able to drive research activities end-to-end

Collaborative working style across strategy, design, and product teams

Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a team-oriented environment and to navigate and excel in a complex, matrix organization, and relate successfully to a variety of people.

Oliver Wyman is a business of Marsh (NYSE: MRSH), a global leader in risk, reinsurance and capital, people and investments, and management consulting, advising clients in 130 countries. With annual revenue of over $27 billion and more than 95,000 colleagues, Marsh helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective. For more information, visit oliverwyman.com, or follow us on LinkedIn and X.

Marsh is committed to creating 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, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Marsh 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 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.