Manager, M&A Execution, Human Capital

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Are you looking for a rewarding career helping North America’s leading institutions solve their most complex M&A lifecycle challenges? If so, this could be the role for you.

Role overview:

The M&A Execution, Human Capital Manager will primarily focus on leading the execution of Human Capital initiatives throughout the M&A lifecycle. The Manager will collaborate with senior leaders, manage junior practitioners, and contribute to the firm’s growth and development in the following ways:

• Engagement management: Lead engagement scoping, planning, governance, economics, risk management, resourcing, and delivery; manage engagement teams; develop deliverable structure and content; and build client leadership alignment around proposed solutions.
• Human Capital execution: Lead Human Capital integration and separation workstreams, coordinate interdependencies, identify risks and decisions, and translate transaction objectives into executable plans for Day 1 and the future state.
• Stakeholder management: Develop and maintain relationships with senior client stakeholders and key decision makers, and establish credibility as a trusted advisor on M&A and Human Capital matters.
• Practice development and eminence: Contribute to practical solutions, methodologies, accelerators, thoughtware, points of view, and industry or eminence activities sponsored by the firm.
• Talent development: Develop high-performing people and teams through coaching, feedback, staffing support, recruitment, retention, and hands-on leadership of delivery teams.
• Core offering expertise: Apply and deepen expertise across M&A and Human Capital offerings, and bring relevant market, industry, and functional perspectives to client delivery and sales pursuits.
• Sales and business development: Participate in business development activities, manage pursuit workstreams, contribute to proposals and presentations, and support the development of commercial and pricing strategies.

What will your typical day look like?

As a Manager within Deloitte’s M&A Execution, Human Capital team, you will lead the delivery of Human Capital workstreams across mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, carve-outs, integrations, separations, and related enterprise transformations. You will help clients address the workforce, organization, leadership, technology, culture, and change implications of a transaction while building trusted, long-term relationships with senior client stakeholders.

Your work will span the M&A lifecycle, with a primary focus on transaction execution, Day 1 readiness, integration and separation planning, and value realization. Typical responsibilities will include:

• Designing Day 1 and future-state organization structures, governance, decision rights, spans and layers, and operating models.
• Leading HR functional integration and separation across talent acquisition, talent management, learning, total rewards, payroll, HR operations, employee relations, workforce planning, and HR shared services.
• Assessing HR technology environments and supporting HRIS integration, migration, separation, vendor selection, transition planning, and roadmap development.
• Developing and delivering change management, stakeholder engagement, leadership alignment, and executive and employee communication strategies.
• Conducting culture assessments, identifying culture-related risks and opportunities, and developing culture integration plans and interventions.
• Identifying and supporting people-related synergies, stranded costs, workforce transition requirements, and value creation opportunities.

You will also lead client workstreams and teams of consultants, support business development opportunities, apply knowledge of industries and leading business practices, contribute to the growth of Deloitte’s Deal Transformation & Post-Merger Integration (DT&PMI) practice, and create an inclusive learning environment through coaching and on-the-job development.

About the team

Deloitte’s DT&PMI practice delivers comprehensive advisory services for clients undertaking M&A and value creation activity. Our practitioners support clients through key phases of the M&A lifecycle, including strategy, due diligence, operational readiness, pre- and post-close integration and separation planning and execution, and follow-on transformation.

We are actively building our presence in the Toronto, Montreal, and Calgary markets. Candidates will be asked to select Toronto, Montreal, or Calgary as their primary office.

M&A Human Capital:

Our Human Capital M&A specialists help clients proactively plan, coordinate, and manage employee-focused initiatives throughout the M&A lifecycle. Our services include functional HR integration and separation, HR technology, organization and operating model design, change management and communications, culture assessment and integration, workforce transition, and talent strategy.

Enough about us, let’s talk about you

Qualifications:

• 7–10 years of relevant consulting and/or industry experience in Human Capital, M&A, organizational transformation, workforce transformation, or a related field; consulting experience is considered an asset.
• First-hand experience delivering one or more M&A, divestiture, carve-out, integration, separation, or complex transformation engagements.
• Demonstrated delivery experience in the following areas:
  • Functional HR integration or separation, including areas such as benefits, pension, compensation, payroll, talent, HR operations, policies, and employee lifecycle processes.
  • HR technology strategy, integration, migration, separation, vendor selection, or implementation.
  • Organization design and organizational effectiveness.
  • Enterprise or functional operating model design.
  • Change management and stakeholder engagement.
  • Executive and employee communications.
  • Culture assessment and culture integration.
  • Workforce transition, talent strategy, or retention planning.
• Strong project and engagement management skills, including the ability to lead multidisciplinary teams, manage competing priorities, and deliver high-quality work within transaction-driven timelines.
• The ability to develop and communicate new ideas, simplify complex issues, facilitate executive decisions, and translate strategy into practical solutions and implementation plans.
• Knowledge of issues facing CHROs and C-suite executives, with a track record of building credibility and providing solutions to senior stakeholders.
• A collaborative leader who combines human and technical skills to inspire teams and achieve outcomes through complex engagements.
• The ability to build and sustain long-term senior-level client relationships and leverage those relationships to identify and develop business opportunities.
• Knowledge of market trends, the competitive environment, corporate strategy, and the Human Capital implications of business and transaction decisions.

Additional qualifications:

• Experience advising clients on M&A concepts and execution considerations, including stranded costs, demanding timelines, business continuity, Day 1 readiness, synergy identification and capture, and transition service arrangements.
• A practical understanding of Canadian employment considerations; familiarity with cross-border or U.S. employment considerations is considered an asset.
• Experience helping develop a growing team and contributing to an inclusive, high-performance culture.
• The ability to articulate leading business issues and trends, including associated Human Capital implications, within one or more industries.
• Experience in one or more of the following industries is considered an asset: Financial Services; Energy, Resources & Industrials; Technology, Media & Telecommunications; Consumer; Transportation; or other transaction-active sectors.
• An undergraduate degree in business, human resources, organizational behaviour, industrial relations, psychology, commerce, or a related discipline. A relevant graduate degree or professional certification is considered an asset.

Total Rewards

The salary range for this position is $101,000 - $169,000, and individuals may be eligible to participate in our bonus program. Deloitte is fair and competitive when it comes to the salaries of our people. We regularly benchmark across a variety of positions, industries, sectors, targets, and levels. Our approach is grounded on recognizing people's unique strengths and contributions and rewarding the value that they deliver.

Our Total Rewards Package extends well beyond traditional compensation and benefit programs and is designed to recognize employee contributions, encourage personal wellness, and support firm growth. Along with a competitive base salary and variable pay opportunities, we offer a wide array of initiatives that differentiate us as a people-first organization. On top of our regular paid vacation days, some examples include: $4,000 per year for mental health support benefits, a $1,300 flexible benefit spending account, firm-wide closures known as "Deloitte Days", dedicated days of for learning (known as Development and Innovation Days), flexible work arrangements and a hybrid work structure.