Oliver Wyman is a global leader in management consulting. With offices in 70 cities across 30 countries, Oliver Wyman combines deep industry knowledge with specialized expertise in strategy, operations, risk management, and organization transformation. The firm has more than 7,000 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. Oliver Wyman’s thought leadership is evident in our agenda-setting books, white papers, research reports, and articles in the business press. Our clients are the CEOs and executive teams of the top Global 1000 companies.

Oliver Wyman is now looking for a Photo Editor to join our Dubai or Riyadh office!

Please include a link to your portfolio / showreel in the CV before submitting.

Job Overview:

Our in-house award-winning creative agency is looking for a Photo Editor / Photographer with excellent picture research skills and project management skills to be responsible for sourcing images across a wide range of projects.

You will collaborate with a global team of designers, editors, copywriters and producers to bring our brand to life in a variety of formats, including digital advertising, social media content, video, email and website platforms. We are looking for someone to come up with fresh and inspirational ideas, as we often also develop campaign strategy along with design concepts.

You have a strong work ethic and thrive in a fast-paced, sometimes high-pressure environment. You are energetic, enjoy problem-solving, and are curious and knowledgeable. In addition to being visually literate you are personable, hard-working, confident and articulate. You enjoy working as part of team as much as on your own initiative and take pride in your attention to detail.

Sourcing images is the main responsibility of the role, though the ideal candidate would also have experience in photography and shoot production and would be open to using their skills for occasional headshot and event photography.

The role:

Ensure excellent knowledge of the Oliver Wyman Brand Guidelines in order to maintain visual quality and consistency across all images, ensuring they are on brand and appropriate for global markets.

Ability to analyse creative briefs for a better understanding of needs of a project

Develop innovative image concepts and source high quality visuals that embody and amplify the Oliver Wyman brand for a diverse range of projects, including reports, social media and marketing campaigns.

Highly organised and detail oriented, delivering multiple, concurrent projects and can plan and prioritise projects in line with strategic priorities.

Maintain excellent photography production workflows, from brief to delivery, archiving, labelling and organising projects to ensure consistent team wide process.

Managing the daily image research and profile photo requests

Ensure all project deadlines are met.

Act as the first point of contact for all picture queries, requests, new briefs, ensuring image principles are upheld.

Participate in creative brainstorms, be a source of inspiration by bringing new ideas and concepts

Present and align image selections with creative directors and project leads and authors.

Liaise with art directors to monitor picture quality.

Provide feedback on image selections.

Compile stock image libraries for the Oliver Wyman brand portal.

Assist with sourcing external photographers.

Retouch, format and archive staff profile photos to Oliver Wyman guidelines.

Retouch images for use across Oliver Wyman content and platforms.

Benchmark against competitors and other brands with similar brand ethos and design.

Requirements and skills

International work experience as a photo editor/photo researcher. Experience in studio/event photography a plus.

strong problem-solver, who enjoys responding creatively to stakeholder briefs.

brilliant communicator who can collaborate directly with stakeholders, action feedback, and come up with creative solutions to get the best possible outcome

Creative mind with an eye for a great image, an elevated aesthetic and storytelling skills to bring concepts to live.

Exceptional attention to detail

Photography expert with extensive knowledge of photography trends and photographic sources, agencies

Strong understanding of image licensing and copyright law, permissions, and potential legal implication

Excellent Time-management skills, Ability to be proactive, multi-task and prioritize effectively.

Flexibility to perform in a fast-paced global environment and meet urgent deadlines.

Advanced knowledge of industry standard photo editing tools including Adobe Creative Suite to include Photoshop, Light room, CaptureOne, figma and various file transfer protocols, CMS/DAM systems

Ability to caption and catalogue archive content in in-house DAM system.

Interest and skilled in Generative AI image platforms a plus

Why join us at Oliver Wyman?

At Oliver Wyman, we lead with heart - we love what we do and have fun while we do it! We also strive for breakthroughs by questioning, seeking diverse perspectives, and finding powerful and sustainable solutions. If you share these values and want to work as one and own our impact at the same time, be brave and achieve the amazing with us!

We’re individuals who are self-starting, motivated, energetic, entrepreneurial about what we do

We have the common aspiration to have an impact, leave a legacy and change the world. We have no interest in running a steady-state business. We want to build, grow and shape the environment around us

We value an environment where every member of Oliver Wyman is encouraged and expected to voice his or her opinion

We believe that to create a true meritocracy we need to remove artificial barriers to opportunity

We value people whose lives balance work and non-work activities because we believe they are both more interesting colleagues and are able to make better contributions to the Firm.

We push ourselves hard to deliver excellence, but we also work to extract the maximum benefit from the flexibility of a project-based business. We provide the ability to take career breaks for personal or family reasons. We fundamentally value each other’s time and are sensitive to how it is used. We are an output not input-based culture, have respect for people’s personal decisions, and believe that one's workload must be sustainable. We seek balance for ourselves and our colleagues.

Oliver Wyman is a wholly owned subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan Companies [NYSE: MMC]. For more information, visit www.oliverwyman.com. Follow Oliver Wyman on Twitter @OliverWyman.