Project Manager – M&A

CARERRA AGENCY; San Diego (CA); Hybrid; USD 220,416,000 - 261,744,000; Full time

Job summary

The Carrera Agency seeks an exceptional Project Manager to lead M&A integration efforts, driving cross‑functional alignment in a fast‑moving environment. This hybrid role is based in San Diego with a July 2026 start for a 4‑month W2 contract.

The ideal candidate has M&A integration experience, familiarity with Day‑1 operating models and TSAs, and strong skills translating complex deals into actionable plans. Excellent stakeholder engagement and adaptability are essential.

Qualifications

• Background in M&A integration, separation, or corporate development.
• Experience leading cross-functional work across complex deals.
• Familiarity with integration approaches and Day-1 operating models.
• Strong communication with senior stakeholders and executives.
• Adaptable, collaborative, and able to influence in a matrixed environment.

Responsibilities

• Translate deal objectives into practical integration or separation strategy.
• Define workstreams, governance, and Day-1 readiness plans.
• Support TSA design, budgets, and exit criteria.
• Maintain plan of record and help with risk, issues, and change control.
• Prepare executive updates and track KPIs tied to deal value.

Skills

M&A integration

Cross-functional leadership

Deal modeling

P&L trade-offs

Executive communication

Matrixed environment

Tools

TSAs

Day-1 operating model

Job description

If you are an excellent project manager who has led a couple of projects related to mergers and acquisitions and enjoy driving cross‑functional alignment in fast‑moving environments, please keep reading.

• Start Date: July 2026
• Duration: 4 month W2 contract
• Location: Hybrid to San Diego, CA
• Compensation: Starting at $85/hr W2 plus benefits

The Project Manager will support integration activities across active M&A initiatives. The ideal candidate brings enough M&A project experience to navigate integration work with confidence — and the curiosity and adaptability to grow into new areas of the work as needed.

• Background in M&A integration, separation, corporate development, or M&A/strategy consulting — experience supporting healthcare, medtech, or software companies is a plus
• Experience supporting or leading cross‑functional work across complex, concurrent deals
• Familiarity with integration approaches, Day‑1 operating model design, entanglement analysis, and Transition Service Agreements (TSAs)
• Comfortable working with deal models, synergy cases, and P&L trade‑offs and translating them into practical operating decisions
• Strong communication skills with the ability to engage senior stakeholders and present clearly to executive audiences
• Experience contributing to playbooks, frameworks, or IMO tooling is a plus
• Highly adaptable, collaborative, and intellectually curious — able to lead through influence in a matrixed environment

What You’ll Be Doing

Integration Strategy and Deal Alignment

• Partner with deal leads and business sponsors during diligence to help translate deal objectives, value drivers, and risks into a practical integration or separation strategy
• Help recommend integration approaches and Day‑1 operating models based on target attributes, strategic intent, and risk profile
• Support the connection between integration strategy and underlying deal assumptions, including integration costs, one‑time costs, and pace‑of‑integration trade‑offs
• Surface integration‑driven implications that may affect negotiation posture, deal structure, or purchase price

Integration Planning

• Convert diligence outputs, requirements, and risks into a comprehensive integration plan covering scope, workplan, resource plan, budget, and RAID log
• Define workstream structure, decision rights, and governance across contributing and impacted functions
• Support the design of Transition Service Agreements (TSAs), including scope, duration, pricing, and exit criteria
• Build Day‑1 readiness plans with clear operational, legal, and communication guardrails

Integration Execution and Governance

• Support the Integration Management Office as a central point of coordination across functional workstreams
• Engage workstream leads to stay aligned on scope, deliverables, and interdependencies, and help resolve risks and issues in a timely manner
• Support core team and steering committee meeting cadences, maintain an up‑to‑date plan of record, and assist with change control on scope, schedule, and budget
• Contribute to scenario planning and executive decision‑making through data‑driven trade‑off analyses
• Help manage advisory partners to ensure delivery on plan and budget

Value Realization, Tracking, and Reporting

• Help define and track integration KPIs and critical success factors tied to deal objectives — including revenue and margin retention, synergy capture, key‑talent retention, Day‑1 stability, and compliance posture
• Assist in preparing clear, executive‑level updates that translate operational detail into strategic narrative
• Track integration and one‑time costs against approved budgets and support corrective actions when needed

Playbook and Capability Development

• Contribute to building and improving integration and separation playbooks, operating model transformation frameworks, and related accelerators
• Support an approach that leverages automation and modern tooling across diligence, workplan generation, and deal business intelligence
• Help codify learnings from deals into repeatable, scalable processes
• Act as a collaborative resource and trusted partner to functional leaders across the organization

Soft Skills

• Works well in a fast‑paced environment, proactive, dynamic, accountable

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