Key Responsibilities:

• Conduct thorough due diligence to assess the P&O implications of potential transactions and make informed recommendations to Mergers & Acquistions(M&A) transaction teams and P&O leadership team.
  • For acquisitions, gather and analyze target companies' information, identify insights, and consider potential implications.
  • For divestments, conduct thorough internal P&O due diligence to assess the impact on employees. Prepare deal summary reports, including key findings from due diligence, and summarize employment matters agreements (e.g., Change in Control Clauses, exit rights, severance, etc.).
• Work with the P&O M&A Integration Lead to identify and assess key P&O risks and propose mitigations for the integration plan (e.g., retention strategies, capability gaps).
• Organize key project P&O meetings, maintain deal-specific project plans, and connect with the P&O Community to ensure timely progress updates.
• Support the P&O M&A Integration Lead in designing a roadmap for P&O activities, addressing key risks, reflecting realistic timelines, identifying interdependencies, and required resources.
• Support the implementation of integration plans, collaborating with cross-functional P&O teams (e.g., Rewards, Country People Partners, People Services and Solutions, teams to ensure smooth transitions for acquired company employees. For divestments, coordinate the separation of employees from the parent company.
• Foster cross-functional collaboration and act as the conduit for P&O-related information to relevant functions (e.g., Real Estate Facility Services, Finance Reporting Analysis, Tax, Legal).
• Support the seamless offboarding of employees to buyer companies, manage the transfer of P&O processes and policies, and oversee talent retention and redeployment strategies as required. Coordinate project meetings, retrospectives, lessons learned and identify improvement opportunities in P&O acquisitions and divestitures processes.
• Own accountability for conducting pre-deal and post-deal assessments to reflect on deals and understand the challenges and opportunities that arose for P&O. Create and maintain project templates for use across the deal cycle, ensuring consistency across transactions. Act as Global Process Owner for P&O M&A, maintaining processes, SOPs, playbooks, etc., to enterprise standards.

Essential Requirements:

• Master’s degree or equivalent, preferably in business or related discipline.
• Many years' work experience in HR with breadth across the HR disciplines.
• A few years' work experience in HR mergers & acquisitions and divestitures with demonstrated experience in transactions.
• Ability to multi-task to drive timely results with excellent attention to detail and follow-through plus knowledge of global employment practices and legislation.
• Demonstrated project management capability with experience running large-scale global projects and building broad internal networks. 
• Comfort with ambiguity and motivation to solve complex problems with the ability to prioritize effectively and facilitate action across teams.
• Ability to work in high-pressure environments with tight deadlines and a self-starter attitude and ability to manage people without formal authority.
• Fluency in English.

Desirable Requirements:

• Management consulting background is a plus.
• Strong business acumen with the gravitas to take required actions.

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:

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