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**Director - HR M&A Transactions** Lead EY's HR M&A strategy, delivery, and commercial growth. Drive strategic thinking by developing HR strategies aligned with M&A objectives, translating complex data into compelling insights. Lead end-to-end HR M&A engagements, transformational programs, and business development efforts. Empower and guide high-performing HR M&A teams. Bring significant HR M&A, consulting, and commercial experience, along with strong communication and analytical skills. Requires flexibility to travel domestically and internationally.

Compensation: Not specified
City: London
Country: United Kingdom

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At EY, were all in to shape your future with confidence.

Well help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go.

Join EY and help to build a better working world.

Director - M&A

As a Director in HR M&A Transactions, you will play a critical leadership role across strategy, delivery, people and commercial growth.

Drive strategic thinking

Develop and shape HR strategies that directly enable M&A objectives, drawing on EYs global tools, insights and methodologies.
Translate complex datasets into clear, compelling insights that strengthen client propositions and support practice growth.
Stay abreast of market trends and emerging insights shaping the M&A landscape, using these to continually refine EYs M&A People proposition.
Actively represent EY in the market, promoting our thought leadership, insights and value proposition.

Define and deliver highimpact projects

Lead endtoend HR M&A engagements across the full deal lifecycle, including Due Diligence, Sell & Separate, and Buy & Integrate.
Shape and deliver peopleled transformation programmes that enhance organisational performance and realise deal value.
Lead the development of highquality RFP responses and client proposals, ensuring timely and professional execution.
Ensure full compliance with EYs Quality and Risk Management (QRM) requirements, from client acceptance through delivery and programme close.
Build and sustain trusted relationships with clients and multidisciplinary delivery teams.
Uphold EYs quality, risk and commercial standards across all engagements.
Strengthen EYs reputation as a trusted partner in HR M&A and peopleled transformation.

Empower and guide teams

Lead, coach and develop highperforming HR M&A consultants in complex and demanding delivery environments.
Partner closely with client leadership teams to guide them effectively through the delivery journey.
Foster a collaborative, inclusive and highperforming team culture, acting as both mentor and rolemodelled leader.
Be recognised as a trusted senior leader and SMR within the HR Transactions team and the wider EY Consulting practice.

Commercial acumen

Build and deepen senior client relationships across priority sectors.
Lead business development activity to sustain and grow commercial performance.
Play a key role in defining and executing EYs gotomarket strategy for M&A People services.
Track, manage and interpret key engagement and financial performance metrics.
Translate strategy into actionable plans that drive individual, team and financial performance.

What You Bring

We are looking for a leader who combines deep HR M&A expertise with strong consulting and commercial capabilities:

Significant experience across HR M&A, HR strategy, HR transformation and HR consulting.
Proven ability to shape, lead and deliver complex, fastpaced programmes with confidence.
Exceptional communication and influencing skills, with credibility at senior executive level.
Strong analytical capability, with a talent for distilling complexity into impactful insight.
A genuine passion for people, M&A and building enduring client relationships.
Personal drive, resilience and determination to consistently deliver highquality outcomes.
High emotional intelligence and adaptability to lead diverse teams and clients through ambiguity and change.
Experience working with domestic and international clients, balancing client needs with team wellbeing.
Willingness to travel domestically and internationally as required.
A proven track record of establishing a credible SMR reputation within a professional services environment.

Desirable:

Degree and postgraduate qualification (beneficial but not essential).
Experience working in global and crossborder M&A environments.

Who Thrives Here

This role is ideally suited to someone who is:

Proactive, motivated and driven to deliver outstanding results.
Analytically minded and detailfocused, while maintaining strong commercial perspective.
Collaborative and teamoriented, thriving in dynamic and evolving environments.
Curious, ambitious and committed to innovation and continuous improvement.
Selfmotivated and resilient, with the energy to continually evolve EYs M&A People proposition.

EY | Building a better working world

EY is building a better working world by creating new value for clients, people, society and the planet, while building trust in capital markets.

Enabled by data, AI and advanced technology, EY teams help clients shape the future with confidence and develop answers for the most pressing issues of today and tomorrow.

EY teams work across a full spectrum of services in assurance, consulting, tax, strategy and transactions. Fueled by sector insights, a globally connected, multi-disciplinary network and diverse ecosystem partners, EY teams can provide services in more than 150 countries and territories.

Full Job Description

At EY, were all in to shape your future with confidence.

Well help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go.

Join EY and help to build a better working world.

Director - M&A

As a Director in HR M&A Transactions, you will play a critical leadership role across strategy, delivery, people and commercial growth.

Drive strategic thinking

Develop and shape HR strategies that directly enable M&A objectives, drawing on EYs global tools, insights and methodologies.
Translate complex datasets into clear, compelling insights that strengthen client propositions and support practice growth.
Stay abreast of market trends and emerging insights shaping the M&A landscape, using these to continually refine EYs M&A People proposition.
Actively represent EY in the market, promoting our thought leadership, insights and value proposition.

Define and deliver highimpact projects

Lead endtoend HR M&A engagements across the full deal lifecycle, including Due Diligence, Sell & Separate, and Buy & Integrate.
Shape and deliver peopleled transformation programmes that enhance organisational performance and realise deal value.
Lead the development of highquality RFP responses and client proposals, ensuring timely and professional execution.
Ensure full compliance with EYs Quality and Risk Management (QRM) requirements, from client acceptance through delivery and programme close.
Build and sustain trusted relationships with clients and multidisciplinary delivery teams.
Uphold EYs quality, risk and commercial standards across all engagements.
Strengthen EYs reputation as a trusted partner in HR M&A and peopleled transformation.

Empower and guide teams

Lead, coach and develop highperforming HR M&A consultants in complex and demanding delivery environments.
Partner closely with client leadership teams to guide them effectively through the delivery journey.
Foster a collaborative, inclusive and highperforming team culture, acting as both mentor and rolemodelled leader.
Be recognised as a trusted senior leader and SMR within the HR Transactions team and the wider EY Consulting practice.

Commercial acumen

Build and deepen senior client relationships across priority sectors.
Lead business development activity to sustain and grow commercial performance.
Play a key role in defining and executing EYs gotomarket strategy for M&A People services.
Track, manage and interpret key engagement and financial performance metrics.
Translate strategy into actionable plans that drive individual, team and financial performance.

What You Bring

We are looking for a leader who combines deep HR M&A expertise with strong consulting and commercial capabilities:

Significant experience across HR M&A, HR strategy, HR transformation and HR consulting.
Proven ability to shape, lead and deliver complex, fastpaced programmes with confidence.
Exceptional communication and influencing skills, with credibility at senior executive level.
Strong analytical capability, with a talent for distilling complexity into impactful insight.
A genuine passion for people, M&A and building enduring client relationships.
Personal drive, resilience and determination to consistently deliver highquality outcomes.
High emotional intelligence and adaptability to lead diverse teams and clients through ambiguity and change.
Experience working with domestic and international clients, balancing client needs with team wellbeing.
Willingness to travel domestically and internationally as required.
A proven track record of establishing a credible SMR reputation within a professional services environment.

Desirable:

Degree and postgraduate qualification (beneficial but not essential).
Experience working in global and crossborder M&A environments.

Who Thrives Here

This role is ideally suited to someone who is:

Proactive, motivated and driven to deliver outstanding results.
Analytically minded and detailfocused, while maintaining strong commercial perspective.
Collaborative and teamoriented, thriving in dynamic and evolving environments.
Curious, ambitious and committed to innovation and continuous improvement.
Selfmotivated and resilient, with the energy to continually evolve EYs M&A People proposition.

EY | Building a better working world

EY is building a better working world by creating new value for clients, people, society and the planet, while building trust in capital markets.

Enabled by data, AI and advanced technology, EY teams help clients shape the future with confidence and develop answers for the most pressing issues of today and tomorrow.

Director - HR M&A Transactions

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