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Senior Manager - HR M&A Transactions

ExperiencedNo visa sponsorship
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at Ernst & Young

Big Four

Posted 5 days ago

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**Senior Manager - HR M&A Transactions** Direct complex HR M&A engagements, enhance organizational performance, and drive deal value as a trusted advisor. Lead delivery teams, mentor professionals, and foster a high-performing culture. Support sales processes, develop client propositions, and contribute to EY's thought leadership. Bring extensive HR M&A, transformation, and consulting experience, strong stakeholder management, and excellent communication skills. Thrive in ambiguity and tight timelines, owning delivery and driving outcomes.

Compensation
Not specified

Currency: Not specified

City
Not specified
Country
United Kingdom

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. 

 

Senior Manager HR M&A Transactions

What Youll Do

 

As a Senior Manager in HR M&A Transactions, you will play a key role in shaping and delivering complex, peoplefocused M&A and restructuring engagements. You will act as a trusted advisor to clients while providing strong leadership across delivery teams.

 

Deliver complex HR M&A engagements

  • 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 maximise deal value.
  • Lead the preparation of highquality RFP responses and client proposals, ensuring timely, professional and compelling submissions.
  • Ensure full compliance with EYs Quality and Risk Management (QRM) requirements, from client acceptance through to programme close.
  • Build and maintain strong, trusted relationships with clients and multidisciplinary EY delivery teams.
  • Uphold EYs quality, risk and commercial standards across all engagements.
  • Contribute to strengthening EYs reputation as a trusted advisor in HR M&A and peopleled transformation.

 

Lead and develop teams

  • Act as a coach and mentor within the HR M&A team, recognising individual strengths and areas for development.
  • Drive continuous capability development, drawing on your SMR experience and practical insight.
  • Foster a collaborative, inclusive and highperforming team culture.
  • Rolemodel EY values, quality and client service excellence.
  • Support the ongoing growth of the practice by building strong daytoday relationships with clients and internal EY stakeholders, becoming a trusted goto advisor.

 

Drive insight and value for clients

  • Support the sales process by contributing to the development of client propositions, presentations and collateral.
  • Play an active role in gotomarket initiatives, providing subjectmatter expertise and insight.
  • Contribute to the development of EY tools, methodologies and points of view.
  • Develop clear, evidencebased perspectives on People issues across both M&A and restructuring.
  • Translate complex data, regulatory requirements and operational detail into clear, concise and actionable insights for clients.
  • Operate as an SMR across the M&A lifecycle, with strong knowledge across key HR disciplines including organisational design and effectiveness, employee and industrial relations, benefits, communications and change management.
  • Support sector development, representing the M&A People proposition and building collaborative crossfunctional relationships across EY.

 

 

What You Bring

We are seeking a Senior Manager with strong delivery credentials and emerging commercial leadership:

  • Extensive experience across HR M&A, HR transformation, restructuring and people consulting.
  • Proven ability to lead complex HR workstreams in both domestic and international contexts, working with diverse EY and client teams.
  • Strong focus on the employee proposition, with a clear understanding of key risks, best practices and delivery within agreed time, cost and risk parameters.
  • Excellent stakeholder management skills, with confidence engaging senior client leadership.
  • Strong analytical capability combined with clear, structured communication and highimpact presentation skills.

 

Desirable:

  • Experience across both buyside and sellside transactions, as well as organisational restructuring.
  • Professional HR qualifications (e.g. CIPD) or a relevant degree.
  • Experience working in large, global or highly regulated environments.

 

 

Who Thrives Here

 

This role is well suited to someone who is:

  • Comfortable owning delivery and being accountable for outcomes.
  • Confident operating in ambiguity and under tight timelines.
  • Proven in providing calm, structured and professional leadership in complex programmes.
  • Highly detailoriented, particularly across client delivery, programme management and QRM.
  • Passionate about people, deals and transformation.
  • Ambitious, motivated and committed to progressing their career within EY.

 

 

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.

Senior Manager - HR M&A Transactions

Compensation

Not specified

City: Not specified

Country: United Kingdom

Ernst & Young logo
Big Four

5 days ago

No clicks

at Ernst & Young

ExperiencedNo visa sponsorship

**Senior Manager - HR M&A Transactions** Direct complex HR M&A engagements, enhance organizational performance, and drive deal value as a trusted advisor. Lead delivery teams, mentor professionals, and foster a high-performing culture. Support sales processes, develop client propositions, and contribute to EY's thought leadership. Bring extensive HR M&A, transformation, and consulting experience, strong stakeholder management, and excellent communication skills. Thrive in ambiguity and tight timelines, owning delivery and driving outcomes.

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. 

 

Senior Manager HR M&A Transactions

What Youll Do

 

As a Senior Manager in HR M&A Transactions, you will play a key role in shaping and delivering complex, peoplefocused M&A and restructuring engagements. You will act as a trusted advisor to clients while providing strong leadership across delivery teams.

 

Deliver complex HR M&A engagements

  • 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 maximise deal value.
  • Lead the preparation of highquality RFP responses and client proposals, ensuring timely, professional and compelling submissions.
  • Ensure full compliance with EYs Quality and Risk Management (QRM) requirements, from client acceptance through to programme close.
  • Build and maintain strong, trusted relationships with clients and multidisciplinary EY delivery teams.
  • Uphold EYs quality, risk and commercial standards across all engagements.
  • Contribute to strengthening EYs reputation as a trusted advisor in HR M&A and peopleled transformation.

 

Lead and develop teams

  • Act as a coach and mentor within the HR M&A team, recognising individual strengths and areas for development.
  • Drive continuous capability development, drawing on your SMR experience and practical insight.
  • Foster a collaborative, inclusive and highperforming team culture.
  • Rolemodel EY values, quality and client service excellence.
  • Support the ongoing growth of the practice by building strong daytoday relationships with clients and internal EY stakeholders, becoming a trusted goto advisor.

 

Drive insight and value for clients

  • Support the sales process by contributing to the development of client propositions, presentations and collateral.
  • Play an active role in gotomarket initiatives, providing subjectmatter expertise and insight.
  • Contribute to the development of EY tools, methodologies and points of view.
  • Develop clear, evidencebased perspectives on People issues across both M&A and restructuring.
  • Translate complex data, regulatory requirements and operational detail into clear, concise and actionable insights for clients.
  • Operate as an SMR across the M&A lifecycle, with strong knowledge across key HR disciplines including organisational design and effectiveness, employee and industrial relations, benefits, communications and change management.
  • Support sector development, representing the M&A People proposition and building collaborative crossfunctional relationships across EY.

 

 

What You Bring

We are seeking a Senior Manager with strong delivery credentials and emerging commercial leadership:

  • Extensive experience across HR M&A, HR transformation, restructuring and people consulting.
  • Proven ability to lead complex HR workstreams in both domestic and international contexts, working with diverse EY and client teams.
  • Strong focus on the employee proposition, with a clear understanding of key risks, best practices and delivery within agreed time, cost and risk parameters.
  • Excellent stakeholder management skills, with confidence engaging senior client leadership.
  • Strong analytical capability combined with clear, structured communication and highimpact presentation skills.

 

Desirable:

  • Experience across both buyside and sellside transactions, as well as organisational restructuring.
  • Professional HR qualifications (e.g. CIPD) or a relevant degree.
  • Experience working in large, global or highly regulated environments.

 

 

Who Thrives Here

 

This role is well suited to someone who is:

  • Comfortable owning delivery and being accountable for outcomes.
  • Confident operating in ambiguity and under tight timelines.
  • Proven in providing calm, structured and professional leadership in complex programmes.
  • Highly detailoriented, particularly across client delivery, programme management and QRM.
  • Passionate about people, deals and transformation.
  • Ambitious, motivated and committed to progressing their career within EY.

 

 

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.