M&A Human Capital Manager

Our Deloitte Strategy & Transactions team helps guide clients through their most critical moments and transformational initiatives. We offer comprehensive end-to-end support and advisory services, covering areas such as valuation modeling, cost optimization, restructuring, business design and transformation, infrastructure and real estate, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and sustainability. The team works closely with clients at every stage of their journey, helping them navigate challenges, avoid financial pitfalls, and implement practical solutions before, during, and after major transformational projects or transactions creating lasting impact.

M&A Integration & Divestiture (I&D), Human Capital (HC) is part of Deloitte’s M&A Offering, within our broader Strategy & Transactions practice. Being a Manager in M&A HC, you will be part of the larger Strategy & Transactions team, focusing on M&A and Human Resources. Our managers are passionate experts who help shape the future of our clients’ organizations. Become one of our experts!

Work You’ll Do

As an M&A Human Capital Manager on the Integration & Divestiture team, you will:

• 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, as well as the following:
• Change Management and communications: Assist in the implementation of change management strategies related to M&A. Empowering leaders to lead their people through the transaction, enable managers to support employees, and create an environment that reduces anxiety, minimizes disruptions and fosters enthusiasm for the future. This includes organizational change and impact assessments, creating holistic change management programs, managing stakeholder and employee engagement and delivering effective internal and external communications.
• Cultural Alignment: Understand and assess legacy cultures, define a future-state culture, and develop plans for how to cultivate that culture.
• HR Functional Integration: Lead the integration of HR Functions including HR Systems, Service Delivery, Total Rewards, Payroll, Leadership Development, and Talent Strategies.
• Workforce Optimization: Imagine and transform the composition and capabilities of the workforce to match the needs of the future of work in this age of technology disruption. Deliver end-to-end transformations of workforce programs, services and processes to identify, build and incent to drive success of organizations and their workforces. Deliver solutions within each workforce domain: Branding & Acquisition; Rewards & Well-being; Performance, Learning & Career Mobility; Leadership & Teaming; Diversity & Inclusion.
• Organization Strategies: Assist in the development of organizational design to enable future-state strategy. This includes supporting the design of combined or separated operating models and the accompanying organizational structures and facilitating the overall workforce transition processes to optimize roles, responsibilities and performance in the future organization.
• Manage day-to-day engagement activities, including client relationships, team oversight, workshop facilitation, deliverable quality, timelines, and proposal support.

A successful candidate would possess these skills:

• 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 i