Mergers & Acquisitions Human Capital Manager

About This Role

Guide clients through mergers and acquisitions by leading and delivering human capital projects. Identify key business issues, develop solutions, and manage client relationships to ensure exceptional performance.

Responsibilities

• Lead and deliver small or components of large, complex client engagements that identify, design, and implement creative business and technology solutions for large companies.
• Identify key client business issues, determine client needs by supplementing the standard assessment techniques and tools with innovative approaches and evaluating and validating analysis.
• Develop recommendations for the client in the context of the overall engagement.
• Implement and oversee the quality of deliverables and effectively manage the team and day-to-day relationships to ensure exceptional performance.
• Participate in the development and presentation of proposals for business development activities.
• Assist in the implementation of change management strategies related to M&A, including organizational change and impact assessments.
• Understand and assess legacy cultures, define a future-state culture, and develop plans for how to cultivate that culture.
• Lead the integration of HR Functions including HR Systems, Service Delivery, Total Rewards, Payroll, Leadership Development, and Talent Strategies.
• Imagine and transform the composition and capabilities of the workforce to match the needs of the future of work.
• Assist in the development of organizational design to enable future-state strategy, including supporting the design of combined or separated operating models and the accompanying organizational structures.

Requirements

• 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 experience developing HR transaction strategy and subsequently delivering on that strategy.
• 6+ years experience working in HR functions & processes, with experience in one or more areas: HR Strategy, HR Employee Experience, HR Operating Models, HR Mergers & Acquisition (M&A), HR Outsourcing Advisory, and HR Technology.
• Experience assisting in business development and/or writing proposals for consulting work.
• Experience leading current/future state road mapping, requirements gathering workshops, running labs, and/or facilitating meetings.
• Experience leading vendor selection including RFPs, RFIs, scoring and evaluating products and services.
• Bachelor's degree and 6+ years consulting and/or industry experience including change management initiatives, communications development, organizational design and development, HR strategy or operations, and /or talent solutions; alternatively, an MBA with 4+ year relevant work experience.
• Ability to travel up to 50%.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 6+ years consulting and/or industry experience; alternatively, an MBA with 4+ year relevant work experience
• 6+ years experience developing HR transaction strategy and delivering on that strategy, or 6+ years experience in HR functions & processes.

Nice to Have

• MBA or graduate degree in HR or Organizational Behavior.
• Actuarial exams or designation, other HR credentials (CCP, GRP, CEMS, CMS, etc.).
• 7+ years of experience with Human Capital Mergers and Acquisitions, restructuring and/or enterprise cost reduction, including a background in due diligence, assessment of transaction risks, target screening, integration planning and execution, and/or post-merger integration.
• 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.
• Experience in financial statement and operations analytics.
• Demonstrated strong business acumen and ability to work effectively across teams, levels and varying cultures.
• Strong oral and written communication skills, including presentation skills (MS PowerPoint), data analysis (MS Excel, Tableau, or SQL) and report writing.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to exercise mature judgment.

Skills

* Required skills