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!
Recruitment efforts will end on 8/28/26
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 in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
Strong interpersonal skills and professional demeanor
Ability to meet deadlines
Ability to mentor and provide clear guidance to others
The Team
M&A advises corporate and PE clients across inorganic growth/divestiture scenarios through M&A strategy, diligence, integration/separation planning and execution, financial and modeling services, and transaction financing.
Within Deloitte's M&A offering, the Integration & Divestiture - Human Capital team helps clients address the people-related dimensions of transactions across the deal lifecycle. The team supports organizations through diligence, pre-close planning, Day 1 readiness, integration, and separation by focusing on areas such as organization design, workforce transition, employee communications, change management, and human resources operating model decisions. Working alongside cross-functional deal teams, the practice helps clients manage workforce risks, support business continuity, and execute human capital priorities that enable transaction value.
Qualifications
Required:
Bachelor's degree
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 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
Limited immigration sponsorship may be available
Preferred:
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
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
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