Manager - People in M&A (Deal Execution)

TN United Kingdom; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Manager for their People in M&A team in Edinburgh. This pivotal role involves leading projects that enhance employee experience during mergers and acquisitions, ensuring smooth transitions and compliance. You will collaborate with senior team members, leveraging your HR and organizational design expertise to drive transformational change. The position offers a unique opportunity to engage with diverse clients and develop innovative strategies that maximize value through people. If you are passionate about making a difference in the M&A landscape, this role is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Experience in HR, OD, or Strategy, ideally in M&A.
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead small-to-medium-sized engagements and support clients.
• Contribute to due diligence and analyze people-related data.
• Advise on integration and separation aspects.

Skills

HR expertise

Organizational Design

Change Management

Stakeholder Management

Problem-solving

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree

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Manager - People in M&A (Deal Execution), Edinburgh

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Client:

KPMG

Location:

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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EU work permit required:

Yes

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Posted:

05.05.2025

Expiry Date:

19.06.2025

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Job Description:

The Deal Execution team is part of KPMG’s rapidly expanding Strategy Group, which delivers value for clients by challenging conventional thinking, bringing deep industry and functional insights and executing with investor-grade rigour. We are a diverse team of over 105 practitioners, working collaboratively with and orchestrating KPMG’s broad set of capabilities within our Advisory business, and are focused on continually enhancing value for clients across the deal and economic cycle. Our teams comprise specialists capable of helping clients from conceptual thinking of buying a business to turning their business around in times of difficulty.

The People in M&A Centre of Excellence deals with all aspects of the employee journey in M&A, as well as leveraging our experience to enact transformational change outside of a deal context. From early-stage strategy development and organisational design for carve-outs, to synergy cases and cost benefits, employee experience and corporate culture, employee transfer, through to the conception, development, and management of effective transformational solutions to help an organisation achieve its ambitions and objectives. We work together to develop solutions to the issues our clients may face and understand the financial benefits or risks that may be present from a people perspective. Above all, we are driven by a passion to help our clients execute transactions and transformational change efficiently, maximising value through people and ensuring a smooth people transition.

The Manager role is a key role to the team, being the bedrock of project lead and delivery whilst working alongside the leadership of global organisations. We work across various sectors although there is the opportunity to specialise in a specific area.

Our four key client proposition areas are:

• Employee experience: Executing an engagement program that addresses the impact to the employee, ensuring that if presented a choice, the employees would have joined the company independently of the deal.

• Organisational strategy development: Developing the organisation design, people strategy, operating model, synergies, and value enhancements for a carve-out or standalone operation.

• Labour relations and compliance: Ensuring the labour and HR risks and obligations are fully understood and effectively managed globally to deliver on the deal timelines and planned integration changes.

• HR operations: HR operations focuses on how HR will deliver services to the organisation through the deal, and post-close, in the most cost-effective and efficient manner, which provides the highest level of service to the employee.

Role Overview

In this role, you will work on and lead projects by working closely alongside senior members of the team, who will provide guidance and insight into the deal environment, enabling you to build your deals knowledge and further develop your people, OD, strategy, and HR skills. You will also leverage your change and consulting skillset to deliver top-tier transformational change for clients outside of a deal context.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Leading small-to-medium-sized engagements and being the day-to-day support for clients.
• Due Diligence: Contributing to and reviewing deal and transaction reports from a people perspective; analyzing data to comment on the people elements of the business including cost, people, and legal issues such as TUPE or unions; providing insights on people aspects of the deal relevant to the client and readers of the due diligence reports; developing understanding of people benchmarks; contributing content for reports/deliverables.
• Integration & Separation: Advising on people, strategy, and organisational design aspects of integration, separation, and optimisation initiatives; leading the HR/OD workstream; facilitating client workshops; reviewing client organisational design and synergies.
• Transformational Change: Supporting clients in achieving objectives through transformational projects; creating roadmaps; designing and deploying change management and communication plans; scoping success factors; mitigating risks; designing success metrics.
• Wider Responsibilities: Interacting with stakeholders; coaching junior team members; ensuring engagement management protocols; supporting propositions and methodologies development.

Leadership & Management:

The Manager supports mentoring, coaching, and development of junior team members, challenges the team to be innovative, ensures quality and value in outcomes, and contributes to market initiatives.

Stakeholder Interaction & Challenges:

Demonstrates credibility, acts as Engagement Manager for projects, manages stakeholders, owns deliverables, and identifies opportunities for technology use to improve delivery.

The Person

Work Experience: Background in HR, OD, or Strategy, ideally in M&A; experience in M&A projects; people specialisms; leadership in client meetings; understanding of HR value drivers; managing teams; developing pitches.

Professional, Technical & Soft Skills: Bachelor’s degree; excellent communication; problem-solving; structured thinking; market understanding; ability to influence and challenge senior stakeholders.