Director - People in M&A

The Role

Provide senior leadership for the People in M&A practice, originating and leading complex client engagements and helping clients identify workforce risks, synergies and value creation opportunities across the deal lifecycle.

Key accountabilities
• Deliver sustainable growth by originating opportunities and strengthening relationships across the UK and European private equity and mergers and acquisitions community.
• Secure trusted adviser relationships with senior clients by anticipating requirements and providing clear, commercially relevant advice.
• Deliver complex People in M&A engagements to high standards of client impact, quality, profitability and risk management.
• Maintain the credibility and quality of client outputs through robust challenge, review and senior oversight of analysis and recommendations.
• Grow the practice through go-to-market activity, thought leadership, marketing, proposals and new business development initiatives.
• Build team capability and followership by providing visible leadership, coaching and inspiration to junior colleagues.
• Maintain compliance with the firm’s risk management frameworks by identifying and reviewing key judgements and consulting appropriately.
• Represent the People in M&A team and KPMG credibly with clients, the wider firm and the broader market.

Key responsibilities
• Lead pre-deal human resources due diligence, vendor due diligence, people-related synergy and value creation engagements.
• Scope, design and run complex integration and/or separation projects, acting as the primary client liaison and ensuring delivery meets client requirements.
• Lead the presentation of findings to senior clients and constructively challenge client and internal thinking, drawing on experience of running large integration and separation programmes.
• Guide teams to produce client-ready deliverables that exceed expectations with limited senior input.
• Review complex analyses and financial models to ensure that conclusions are credible, accurate and commercially relevant.
• Distil large volumes of technical and workforce data into the strategic insights most important to clients.
• Initiate and lead marketing, sales, proposal, scoping and pricing activity for medium-sized and large consulting assignments.
• Take new business development ideas from concept through design and execution to client conversations.
• Lead selected internal priorities, including team management, technical tools and coordination with service suppliers.
• Collaborate across KPMG and with external stakeholders to deliver integrated client solutions.

The Person

Key skills, experience
• Extensive experience in human resources due diligence, value creation and People in M&A.
• Significant experience in a leading strategy consulting business, Big Four firm, or strategy or corporate development team in industry.
• Proven experience scoping and leading medium-sized and large HR M&A engagements with strong client outputs and project economics.
• Demonstrable ability to originate sales opportunities, maintain senior client relationships and lead proposals, scope and pricing.
• Strong analytical, numerical and commercial skills, including reviewing technical data and building complex financial models.
• Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills, with the credibility to influence and challenge senior stakeholders.

Qualifications
• Strong academic track record.
• Additional language skills are desirable but not essential.