Senior Manager, Mergers & Acquisitions (Merger & Carveout Services)

About the role

West Monroe is seeking a Senior Manager to join our Merger & Carveout Services (MCS) team within our M&A Practice. We advise private equity and corporate clients through pivotal moments—from evaluating acquisitions and divestitures to designing and executing complex integrations and separations. As a Senior Manager, you will lead high-impact transactions, advise executive stakeholders, and bring together business, technology, and data perspectives to solve challenges that directly influence deal outcomes. You will also play a key role in growing our M&A business, building client relationships, shaping new opportunities, and developing our next generation of leaders.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex buy-side and sell-side merger, integration, and carveout engagements across diligence, pre-close planning, Day 1 readiness, and post-close execution.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior executives, connecting transaction objectives with practical strategies that manage risk and create value.
• Lead multidisciplinary teams across IT, Finance & Accounting, HR, Procurement, Operations, Sales & Marketing, and other functions.
• Guide complex analyses including standalone and one-time costs, synergies and dis-synergies, TSA strategy and negotiation, operating models, and value capture.
• Own engagement scope, economics, staffing, quality, risk, and executive governance across multiple workstreams or engagements.
• Leverage West Monroe's Intellio™ assets, analytics, and M&A methodologies to accelerate planning, execution, reporting, and value realization.
• Leverage AI tools to accelerate analysis, synthesize complex information, and support data-driven recommendations for clients, exercising sound judgment in evaluating outputs.
• Apply AI technologies (e.g., generative AI, automation tools, data models) to enhance insights, improve delivery efficiency, and elevate the quality of client outcomes.
• Originate and shape opportunities with private equity and corporate clients, expanding relationships through relevant M&A and cross-functional solutions.
• Lead pursuits from opportunity identification through solution design, scoping, pricing, proposal development, and client presentations.
• Build trusted executive relationships and serve as a go-to M&A advisor for clients and pursuit teams.
• Develop an external network and strengthen West Monroe's presence in the M&A market through industry relationships and events.
• Advance MCS offerings, methodologies, accelerators, and intellectual capital based on evolving client and market needs.
• Develop talent through coaching, Career Advisor responsibilities, quality review, and leadership of high-performing teams.
• Contribute to recruiting, knowledge sharing, and collaboration across West Monroe's industry, functional, and technology practices.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of management consulting, transaction advisory, technology consulting, or related experience, with significant M&A experience.
• Proven experience leading complex mergers, integrations, carveouts, divestitures, or transaction programs from diligence through execution.
• Demonstrated success developing client relationships, identifying opportunities, and contributing to the sale and expansion of consulting engagements.
• Experience advising C-level stakeholders and translating complex financial, operational, and technology issues into actionable recommendations.
• Strong financial and commercial acumen, including experience with standalone costs, one-time costs, synergies, TSA analysis, or transaction-related financial modeling.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams and managing engagement economics, risk, quality, and executive governance.
• Experience integrating AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT) into day-to-day workflows to enhance productivity and insight generation, coupled with strong critical thinking to assess accuracy, mitigate bias, and ensure high-quality outputs.
• Ability to travel 25 to 50%.
• A commitment to inclusion and diversity, and openness to new ideas and perspectives.
• Ability to work permanently in the United States without sponsorship.

Pay

• Seattle or Washington, D.C.: $209,800—$246,800 USD
• Los Angeles: $219,800—$258,500 USD
• New York City or San Francisco: $229,800—$270,300 USD
• A location not listed above: $199,800—$235,000 USD

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance for employees and their families
• 401k plan
• Employee stock ownership program
• Annual bonuses
• Unlimited flexible time off
• Ten paid holidays throughout the calendar year
• Ten weeks of paid parental leave available upon hire date