Mergers & Acquisitions 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.

Being a Manager in Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) Human Capital (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!

Recruiting for this role ends on 4/13/2026.

Work You'll Do Managers in our M&A HC area lead and deliver small or components of large, complex client engagements that identify, design, and implement creative business and technology solutions for large companies. You will provide service excellence by identifying key client business issues, determining client needs by supplementing the standard assessment techniques and tools with innovative approaches and evaluating and validating analysis. From there, managers develop recommendations for the client in the context of the overall engagement. You will implement and oversee the quality of deliverables and effectively manage the team and day-to-day relationships to ensure exceptional performance. Managers participate in the development and presentation of proposals for business development activities. Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• 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.
• Build your reputation within the firm and in the market for the strong HR Strategy/Capability knowledge you possess.
• Forge strong relationships with both the clients and project teams that will contribute to your growth and development.
• Support workshops, large meetings, or presentations to senior leaders.
• Execute a project plan, managing to deadlines and paying acute attention to detail.

The Team Our M&A team offers expert guidance to corporate and private equity clients in navigating complex growth and divestiture scenarios. Our services encompass M&A strategy and transaction diligence, integration and separation planning and execution, as well as transaction financing.

Our Human Capital professionals work closely with clients around the world to develop effective and efficient people-centered solutions. Our M&A HC team helps clients define their talent strategy and align it with their executive business vision using innovative strategic frameworks that enhance HR service delivery models, set the stage for continuously improving operational excellence, and reimagines the HR brand. Our approach to due-diligence, integration / divestiture planning and execution focuses on identifying potential risks, developing an end-state vision and strategy, and supporting clients to implement maximum value realization opportunities. The M&A HC team performs activities across the M&A life cycle including advising due diligence projects to identify and quantify transaction risks and opportunities, ensuring overall Talent / People / HR strategies are aligned with overall corporate strategic objectives, identifying HR, culture, key talent and retention related risks, and planning for Day 1 readiness and/or managing post-merger integration. This team builds support, understanding and advocacy for the creation of the new organization to executive leaders. They design organizations that align to the future operating model and prepare to transition the workforce through targeted communication and support.

Qualifications Required:

• 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 experience developing HR transaction strategy and subsequently delivering on that strategy
• 6+ years experience working in HR functions & processes, with experience in one or more of the following areas: HR Strategy, HR Employee Experience, HR Operating Models, HR Mergers & Acquisition (M&A), HR Outsourcing Advisory, and HR Technology
• Experience assisting in business development and/or writing proposals for consulting work
• Experience leading current/future state road mapping, requirements gathering workshops, running labs, and/or facilitating meetings.
• Experience leading vendor selection including RFPs, RFIs, scoring and evaluating products and services
• Bachelor's degree and 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
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future

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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The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Deloitte, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $144,200 to $265,600.

You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.