Senior Manager, HR Transactions (M&A)

West Monroe is seeking a Senior Manager with current consulting experience to join our Organization, People, and Change (OPC) practice and lead engagement across our OPC Transactions (M&A) offering. West Monroe's Organization, People, and Change practice accelerates value and business outcomes of transformations, transactions and implementations - through people, HR, and change strategies.

For this opening, we are looking for someone with a proven track record advising clients on people issues and HR functions at every stage of the deal life cycle, including commercial strategy to planning and execution support for ongoing and future critical business activities.

What you'll do:

• Serve as a delivery leader on engagements of moderate-to-high complexity and scale, communicating with client sponsors directly without oversight, and exemplifying engagement management, client relationship, client satisfaction, risk management, and delivery team management skills.
• Oversee engagement scope, budget, deliverables, profitability, work management and reporting, change management, vendor management, and team development.
• Position self as a 'go-to' for farming and/or business development opportunities by partnering with other West Monroe practices to cross-sell capabilities to our clients, originating multiple projects, leading complex pursuits, and identifying competitive threats or market trends that require preparation.
• Review SOW and pricing tool to ensure that projects are profitable, scope is feasible, and the project poses no reputational risk to the firm.
• Stay current on industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices to drive innovation and thought leadership.
• Contribute to the growth of the Org, People & Change practice by originating and creating methodologies, project assets and tools, and ensuring maintenance of those assets.
• Manage and mentor a team of consultants, fostering their professional growth and development.
• Provide quality assurance review on junior team members' approaches and deliverables.
• Provide thought leadership and guidance to project teams, ensuring alignment with client needs and West Monroe's methodologies.
• Promote a collaborative and inclusive team environment that prioritizes client success.
• Represent West Monroe at industry events, conferences, and networking opportunities.
• Actively engage in recruiting, interviewing, and selecting campus and experienced new hire consultants.

What you'll bring:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required.

• 8+ years of relevant HR, organization transformation, and people-focused transactions experience.

• 3+ years of experience working in a consulting environment.

• HR M&A expertise with a proven track record advising clients throughout every stage of the deal life cycle, including TSA planning, diligence, pre-close planning, integration/separation, and value creation for buy-and-sell-side deals.

• Expert program manager with extensive experience managing multiple HR M&A projects including developing work plans, project scopes, pricing estimates, budget management, issue and risk management, and presenting deliverables.

• People management experience, and a passion for developing and coaching more junior team members.

• Business development experience including farming leads and assisting in managing the sales process - pursuit strategy, client development cycle and tools, proposal development, fee and profitability planning, and contract management.

• Proven success achieving in-year revenue expectations.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills including the ability to create impactful and concise executive stakeholder-ready deliverables, and polished client-facing oral communication skills.

• Strong data visualization and analysis skills; comfortable using tools like Excel to analyze data and present key insights in a compelling way.

• Highly proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Word).

• Demonstrated success within one or more of West Monroe's core industries including Consumer & Industrial Products, Healthcare (payer/provider), Life Sciences, High Tech & Software, Utilities, Insurance, and Banking.

• Candidates for this opening should have robust Private Equity experience.

• A commitment to inclusion and diversity, and openness to new ideas and perspectives.

• Ability to travel up to 50%