Human Resources M&A Leader (Remote)

Imagine a world where everyone has access to clean water, safe food and medicines, and trusted essential goods.

That is the tomorrow Veralto is creating today. Veralto is a $4.8B global leader in essential technology solutions. Our industry-leading companies are building on a long-established legacy of innovation and customer trust to create a safer, cleaner, more vibrant future. Veralto’s Product Quality and Innovation companies – Esko, Linx, Pantone, Videojet and X-Rite – help protect the world’s food, medicine and essentials by enabling customers to track and authenticate the billions of goods that travel the global supply chain every day. And our Water Quality companies – Aquatic Informatics, ChemTreat, Hach, McCrometer, OTT HydroMet, Sea-Bird Scientific, Trojan Technologies and XOS – help customers manage, treat, purify and protect the global water supply, from municipal and wastewater treatment facilities to lakes, rivers, watersheds, and oceans.

Veralto is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts, with 300+ locations worldwide. Our global team of 16,000 associates is guided by the Veralto Enterprise System and united by a powerful purpose: Safeguarding the World’s Most Vital Resources™.

About The Role

Veralto is seeking a Human Resources M&A Leader to contribute to the mission of the Talent & Diversity team, which is to build and sustain an equitable enterprise talent ecosystem, growing our associates, enabling them to deliver accretive business results. The role will be remote with the expectation to travel 15-30% of the time based on business needs.

This role will drive Veralto’s HR M&A due diligence, initial integration planning processes and be a key member of the team in supporting M&A for Veralto. This role will work in tandem with internal and external partners to support a heavy level of due diligence (acquisition or minority investment) and/or divestiture related projects and early and mid-stage HR integration planning to deliver effective, efficient, and consistently high-quality support to our deal teams.

Veralto HR is committed to building a workplace that fuels growth, for the business and each one of us. We are transforming our HR organization to deliver compelling experiences every day for our associates, leaders and HR team through world class business partnership, specialty HR expertise in niche parts of the function and regional service organizations focused on high quality service delivery. Bring your passion for supporting business growth through its talent and organization and join us in our journey!  

Your Responsibilities

• Lead Strategy, roadmap and planning for HR M&A (Due diligence to Integration) including research and consultation with external vendors.

• Leads design, development and enhancement of HR M&A standard work supported with deep external insights and in alignment with overall M&A standard work managed by Corporate Development.

• Ensure's alignment with Corporate development, Labor and Employee relations, Legal, Communications on M&A Standard work for both acquisition and divestiture.

• Builds capability, coaches OpCo HR teams on M&A deals, leads training on Veralto’s due diligence and deal process to Business HR leads to develop world class HR M&A and integration capabilities for Veralto.

• Leads critical analyses based on that data and other information provided during diligence in order to determine:

  • additional cost drivers or synergies impacting deals financial model,

  • understand employee deal proceeds/equity waterfall (to aid in determining retention risks and mitigation plans),

  • headcount growth/synergies planning for a deal, and

  • other varied quantitative analyses in support of HR M&A.

• Partners with Talent & Diversity team to establishes process to enhance Veralto’s M&A talent pipeline identification, development and advancement.

• Work closely with the Veralto Total Rewards team to ensure that critical compensation and benefit risks for acquisitions & divestitures are identified and quantified, and contribute to effective transition plans, according to business needs and Veralto standards and strategy.

• Ensure that all material HR financial risks, costs and synergies are picked up in HR M&A standard work and in the HR Due Diligence report, to ensure inclusion in the deal’s ROIC and financial model.

• Partner with Veralto L&E to ensure all key employment issues are identified and an agreed upon path is determined, as well as all employee agreement and retention materials are developed and delivered timely.

• Partner with Corporate Development and L&E in revi