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.
Build the people playbook that makes private equity (PE) value creation real. Deloitte Consulting is hiring an M&A Human Capital (HC) Senior Manager focused on private equity—owning the org, talent, leadership, culture, and change agenda across both integrations and separations/carve-outs. If you like high-velocity deals, practical problem-solving, and outcomes you can measure, the role below has your name on it.
Recruiting for this role ends on 4/7/2026
Work You’ll Do
As an M&A HC Integration & Divestiture (I&D) Senior Manager, you will lead and deliver large, complex client engagements that identify, design, and implement creative business and technology solutions for large companies. Senior Managers are expected to contribute to the firm's growth and development in a variety of ways including,
- Engagement Management: Execute a project plan; lead engagement planning and budgeting; mobilize and manage engagement teams; define deliverable structure and content; facilitate buy-in of proposed solutions from top management levels at the client; direct on-time, quality delivery of work products; manage engagement economics; manage engagement risk.
- Interactions with executive clients and sponsors: Participate in Business Development, develop and maintain contact with top decision makers at key clients, organize and lead pursuit teams, participate and lead aspects of the proposal development process, contribute to the development of proposal pricing strategies.
- Practice Development & Eminence: Develop practical solutions and methodologies, develop "thought ware" and "point- of-view" documents, participate in public speaking events, get published in industry periodicals.
- People development: Perform the role of counselor and coach, provide input and guidance into the staffing process, actively participate in staff recruitment and retention activities, provide leadership and support for delivery teams and staff in local offices.
- 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 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.
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 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.
As a global leader in providing consulting services to the asset management industry, Deloitte works with clients to address a range of critical issues brought on by regulatory changes, competition, globalization, advances in technology, and the changing demands of their customers. Our clients include asset, wealth, and investment advisers and administrators from every sector of the industry, including investment managers, broker-dealers, banks, insurance companies, mutual funds, hedge funds, private equity, alternative products, and other money managers.
Qualifications
Required:
- Experience delivering at least 10 M&A Human Capital engagements in integration planning and execution, post-merger integration, assessment of transaction risks and restructuring/enterprise cost reduction
- 8+ years experience developing HR transaction strategy and subsequently delivering on that strategy
- 8+ 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
- 8+ years experience leading current/future state road mapping, requirements gathering workshops, running labs, and/or facilitating meetings
- 8+ years experience leading vendor selection including RFPs, RFIs, scoring and evaluating products and services
- 6+ years experience carrying a business development quota for consulting work, writing proposals, ramping up pursuit teams and leading business development pursuits’ end-to-end.
- 4+ years experience working with or in PE firms and/or portfolio companies
- Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years consulting and/or industry experience in M&A Human Capital including change management initiatives, communications development, organizational design and development, HR strategy or operations, and /or talent solutions; alternatively, an MBA with 6+ 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.)
- 10+ 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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