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Manager - People in M&A (Deal Execution), Liverpool
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Client:
KPMG
Location:
Liverpool, United Kingdom
Job Category:
Other
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EU work permit required:
Yes
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Job Reference:
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Job Views:
14
Posted:
14.05.2025
Expiry Date:
28.06.2025
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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, focused on enhancing value across the deal and economic cycle. Our teams include specialists capable of supporting 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 handles all aspects of the employee journey in M&A and leverages our experience for transformational change outside of deals. From early-stage strategy development and organisational design for carve-outs, to synergy cases, employee experience, corporate culture, employee transfer, and developing transformational solutions to help organizations achieve their ambitions. We develop solutions to client issues and understand the financial benefits or risks from a people perspective. We are driven by a passion to help clients execute transactions and transformational change efficiently, maximizing value through people and ensuring smooth transitions.
The Manager role is key to the team, serving as the project lead and delivery expert while working alongside global organization leaders. Although we work across sectors, there is opportunity to specialise in specific areas.
Our four key client proposition areas are:
• Employee experience: Executing engagement programs that address impacts on employees, ensuring employees would choose to join the company independently of the deal
• Organisational strategy development: Developing organisation design, people strategy, operating models, synergies, and value enhancements for carve-outs or standalone operations
• Labour relations and compliance: Managing labour and HR risks and obligations globally to meet deal timelines and integration plans
• HR operations: Delivering HR services efficiently during and after deals to provide high-quality employee support
Role Overview
In this role, you will lead projects, work closely with senior team members for guidance, and build your deal knowledge as well as people, OD, strategy, and HR skills. You will also apply your change and consulting skills to deliver transformational change outside of deal contexts.
Your responsibilities include:
* Leading small-to-medium engagements and supporting clients daily
* Due Diligence: Contributing to and reviewing deal reports from a people perspective, analyzing data, providing insights on people aspects, developing benchmarks, and contributing to reports
* Integration & Separation: Advising on people, strategy, and organisational design during integrations and separations, leading HR workstreams, facilitating client workshops, and reviewing organisational design and synergies
* Transformational Change: Supporting clients in achieving objectives through transformational projects, designing roadmaps, facilitating client thinking, designing change management plans, scoping success factors, identifying risks, and measuring benefits
* Wider Responsibilities: Interacting with stakeholders, coaching junior team members, ensuring engagement protocols, and supporting propositions and tool development
Leadership & Management
The Manager supports mentoring, coaching, and development of junior staff, challenges the team to be innovative, ensures value-driven outcomes, and contributes to pitches and proposals to win new work.
Stakeholder Interaction & Challenges
Demonstrate credibility to advise on complex deals, act as Engagement Manager for projects, be the key client contact, understand client expectations, manage stakeholders, ensure high-quality deliverables, coach team members, and explore technology opportunities to improve delivery.
The Person
Work Experience:
* Understanding of HR, OD, or Strategy, preferably in M&A
* Experience in M&A projects and consultation
* Specialisms such as HR strategy, TUPE, unions, organisational design, employee engagement, talent, recruitment, retention (depth in one area acceptable)
* Leading client meetings, workshops, and teams
* Understanding HR value drivers
* Managing teams or project parts
* Developing business pitches
* Influencing senior stakeholders and exercising professional judgment
Professional, Technical & Soft Skills:
* Bachelor's degree; professional qualifications preferred
* Excellent communication skills
* Ability to work under pressure, learn quickly, and adapt
* Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
* Structured and creative thinking
* Credibility in client discussions on industry issues
* Ability to evaluate challenges and recommend practical solutions
* Understanding market drivers and client strategies
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