People Delivery Lead

HSBC; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global financial institution based in London is seeking a high-caliber People Delivery Lead for a 24-month fixed term contract. This role focuses on managing the people aspects of key mergers and acquisitions, ensuring seamless execution and alignment with business objectives. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in managing large M&A transactions in financial services and strong leadership skills across cross-functional teams. This position operates in a hybrid working environment.

Benefits

Tailored professional development opportunities

Fantastic benefits packages

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in M&A managing large transactions in financial services or highly regulated organisations.
• Experience in delivering large complex M&A assignments across different markets.
• Ability to guide, persuade and influence others.

Responsibilities

• Manage people aspects of key M&A transactions across the deal lifecycle.
• Support in implementing ‘best in class’ M&A practices.
• Accountable for identifying and highlighting key risks.

Skills

Experience in M&A managing large transactions

Leading cross-functional teams

C-suite expectations management

Communication and diplomacy skills

Job description

People Delivery Lead, Merger & Acquisition - 24 Months fixed term contract

Brand: HSBC

Area of Interest: Human Resources

Location: London, GB, E14 5HQ

Work style: Hybrid Worker

Date: 19 Jan 2026

If you’re looking to take an exciting new direction with your HSBC career, an internal move can open the door to many opportunities, allowing you to take on a new challenge, and develop your skills. Bring your knowledge of our brand to a new role and grow yourself further.

To manage the large number of Merger & Acquisition (M&A) transactions (ongoing and future), a central M&A People team has been formed within People, Governance and Communications (PGC) to lead and deliver M&A transactions. The central team will ensure consistency of PGC approach to transactions, facilitate governance and approvals, change & risk management and deliver projects including due diligence and overall programme management of delivery including resourcing for a project. The role holder will also be accountable to build M&A capability.

We are currently seeking a high calibre professional to join our team as a People Delivery Lead, Merger & Acquisition - 24 Months Secondment.

A move across the business allows you to continue to access tailored professional development opportunities, and our fantastic benefits packages.

In this role you will need:

• Manage people aspects of key M&A transactions across the deal lifecycle, including acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, and strategic partnerships, ensuring seamless execution and alignment with business objectives, whilst leading overall delivery of key transactions by defining resourcing and programme management of a cross‑functional PGC workstream structure and mobilising cross‑functional PGC teams from all relevant areas (Rewards, ER, Talent etc.) for delivery and providing appropriate inputs across different stages of a transaction.
• Support in implementing ‘best in class’ M&A practices in delivery, governance and post‑implementation review of a transaction.
• Accountable for identifying and highlighting key risks and aligning PGC & business stakeholders on risk mitigation.
• Enable resourcing discussions for PGC workstreams and serve as the point of contact for all people‑related elements of a transaction.
• Enable day 1 PGC readiness in collaboration with respective People Heads and continuously track people metrics to measure the success of a transaction particularly post‑deal outcomes for teams joining HSBC and support in building HR capability of M&A processes, upskilling internal teams and building institutional knowledge for future transactions.

To be successful you will need:

• Extensive experience in M&A managing large transactions in financial services or highly regulated organisations.
• Experience in delivering large complex M&A assignments across different markets, leading cross‑functional teams and managing C‑suite expectations and programme management of large transactions.
• A comprehensive understanding of a value unit / product / region / legal entity, alongside a good understanding of the industry and the challenges and changes in the sector.
• Prior experience with management responsibilities for a sizeable team of professionals (including responsibility for budget, and planning).
• Latitude to make decisions outside of established procedures but within a policy framework. Broad guidelines are available. The role implements strategy set by others.
• The ability to guide, persuade and influence others through developed skills of communication and diplomacy.

This role is based in London and is Hybrid working.

Opening up a world of opportunity.

Being open to different points of view is important for our business and the communities we serve. At HSBC, we’re dedicated to creating diverse and inclusive workplaces - no matter their gender, ethnicity, disability, religion, sexual orientation, or age. We are committed to removing barriers and ensuring careers at HSBC are inclusive and accessible for everyone to be at their best. We take pride in being a Disability Confident Leader and will offer an interview to people with disabilities, long term conditions or neuro‑divergent candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role.

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