M&A Human Capital Manager

About the role

M&A Human Capital Managers on the Integration & Divestiture team at Deloitte help clients navigate the human side of mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures. They focus on HR aspects like workforce transition, cultural alignment, and organizational design.

Responsibilities

• Lead human capital workstreams across mergers, acquisitions, integrations, and divestitures, including planning, execution, and delivery management.
• Develop and implement change management and communication strategies that support leaders, managers, and employees through transaction-related change.
• Assess legacy cultures, define future-state culture priorities, and support plans to align culture, workforce experience, and organizational objectives.
• Advise on HR functional integration and workforce matters, including HR systems, service delivery, total rewards, payroll, leadership development, talent strategy, organization design, and workforce transition.
• Manage day-to-day engagement activities, including client relationships, team oversight, workshop facilitation, deliverable quality, timelines, and proposal support.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree
• 6+ years of experience supporting and/or delivering at least 4 M&A Human Capital projects, including restructuring, enterprise cost reduction, due diligence, assessment of transaction risks, target screening, integration planning and execution, and/or post-merger integration.
• 6+ years of experience in human resources functions and processes in one or more of the following areas: HR strategy, employee experience, operating model design, mergers and acquisitions, outsourcing advisory, or HR technology.
• Experience assisting in business development and/or writing proposals for consulting work.
• Experience leading current-state and future-state road mapping, requirements-gathering workshops, labs, or stakeholder meetings.
• Experience leading vendor selection including RFPs, RFIs, scoring and evaluating products and services.
• Experience in HR, Consulting, and/or Corporate Communications.
• Experience performing Human Capital due diligence (some or all of compensation, benefits, HR compliance, labor relations, HR communications, operations and technology, talent and culture) and post-deal integration / separation activities by identifying and quantifying transaction risks and opportunities.
• Experience in financial statement and operations analytics.
• Strong business acumen and ability to work effectively across teams, levels and varying cultures.

Qualifications

• Ability to work independently and collaborate as part of a team.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills.
• Meticulous attention to detail and quality of work product.
• Ability to build and sustain professional relationships.
• Ability to lead projects or workstreams.
• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
• Strong interpersonal skills and professional demeanor.
• Ability to meet deadlines.
• Ability to mentor and provide clear guidance to others.