Join us as a Mergers & Acquisition People Consultant
- You’ll play a central role in delivering the Group’s growth agenda, acting as a trusted advisor to deal teams and leading the People workstream across mergers, acquisitions and disposals
- This is a unique opportunity to operate at the heart of complex transactions, shaping deal strategy, managing risk, and delivering critical and commercial People outcomes from initial diligence through to integration or separation
- You’ll move beyond traditional HR delivery into strategic, deal-facing advisory work
- Working directly on high-impact, high-visibility transactions and shaping how the organisation identifies, manages and realises value through People
What you'll do
You’ll:
- Act as a trusted advisor to deal teams, shaping People strategy from early-stage deal development through to execution
- Lead HR deal teams, aligning SMEs across Reward, ER, Talent, Tech and OD to deliver a coordinated and commercially focused People plan
- Drive due diligence and deal readiness, assessing People-related risks, costs and opportunities, and translating insights into clear recommendations
- Own delivery of the People workstream, including integration or separation planning, employee communications, and consultation activity, in partnership with Employee Relations
- Manage HR input into legal and transaction processes, including contracts, governance and approvals
- Operate as the single point of contact for People within the deal, building strong relationships across Corporate Development, Legal, Finance and external advisers
- Balance pace, risk and commercial outcomes, enabling informed decision-making in fast-moving and often ambiguous environments
- Continuously improve M&A People capability, contributing to playbooks, tools and lessons learned across the function
The skills you'll need
We’re looking for a commercially minded HR professional who is comfortable operating in high pace, high ambiguity environments and influencing senior stakeholders.
You’ll demonstrate:
- Proven experience in complex project or transaction environments, ideally within M&A, transformation or large-scale change
- Strong consulting and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to challenge, influence and align senior stakeholders
- Commercial judgement, balancing People outcomes with cost, risk and deal objectives
- Experience leading cross-functional teams, coordinating multiple SMEs to deliver integrated outcomes
- Ability to translate data and insight into action, shaping strategy and informing key decisions
- A broad understanding of HR disciplines, with knowledge of how Reward, ER, Talent and OD intersect in a deal context
Hours
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Flexible Benefits — A flexible ValueAccount structure with pension and benefit funding allows tailoring of health, protection, lifestyle, and savings options, with unused amounts typically paid as cash. This flexibility supports personalisation of coverage, particularly in Great Britain where the framework is most detailed.
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Retirement Support — Employer-funded pension contributions are provided on top of salary in Great Britain, alongside automatic retirement enrollment and share/save programs. This creates structured long‑term wealth support as part of total reward.
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Parental & Family Support — UK policies outline extended maternity, adoption and equal partner leave on full pay with a phased return, plus paid neonatal care leave. These provisions are positioned as market‑leading and complement broader flexibility resources.
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