M&a Human Capital Manager

The M&A Human Capital Manager role at Deloitte focuses on guiding clients through the people-related aspects of mergers, acquisitions, integrations, and divestitures. This involves leading human capital workstreams, developing change management and communication strategies, assessing and defining organizational cultures, and advising on HR functional integration and workforce matters. The role requires strong project management, client relationship management, and team leadership skills within the Strategy & Transactions practice.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead human capital workstreams across mergers, acquisitions, integrations, and divestitures, including planning, execution, and delivery management
  2. Develop and implement change management and communication strategies that support leaders, managers, and employees through transaction-related change.
  3. Assess legacy cultures, define future-state culture priorities, and support plans to align culture, workforce experience, and organizational objectives.
  4. 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, as well as the following:
  5. Manage day-to-day engagement activities, including client relationships, team oversight, workshop facilitation, deliverable quality, timelines, and proposal support.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's degree
  • Experience supporting and/or delivering at least 4 M&A Human Capital projects
  • 6+ years of experience developing and implementing HR transaction strategy
  • 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
  • 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%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve

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 by identifying and quantifying transaction risks and opportunities
  • Experience in financial statement and operations analytics
  • Demonstrated strong business acumen and ability to work effectively across teams, levels and varying cultures

What the JD emphasized

  • M&A Human Capital projects
  • HR transaction strategy
  • human resources functions and processes
  • consulting and/or industry experience including change management initiatives