HR M&A Project Manager

Job Title: HR M&A Project Manager

Location: Morristown NY 07446

Duration: 12 Months

Job Type: Temporary Assignment

Work Type: Remote – Candidates can be from Morristown NJ, Portsmouth NH, Houston TX, Walkersville MD, or Vacaville CA

Pay Range: $95 to $110 – Negotiable

Overview:

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients worldwide. Our client is a leading biotechnology company that combines technological insight with world-class manufacturing, scientific expertise, and process excellence and helps its customers deliver new and innovative medicines that help treat a wide range of diseases. Our client specializes in pharmaceutical ingredients, bioscience, biopharmaceuticals, custom manufacturing, biotechnology, life science ingredients, nutrition, microbial control, agriculture, materials science, personal care, and cell and gene therapy.

Summary

We are seeking an experienced HR M&A Project Manager / Lead to lead the assigned HR projects across acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, restructurings, and other strategic initiatives. This role will have end-to-end ownership of assigned projects from due diligence and planning through execution, integration, or separation. The position will coordinate HR functions, cross-functional stakeholders, and external advisors while managing people-related risks, workforce transitions, HR implementation, employee experience, and change activities. The ideal candidate is a strong project leader with extensive HR M&A experience who can manage multiple complex projects in a fast-paced, international, and matrixed environment.

Responsibilities

• Independently lead and deliver assigned HR M&A and corporate projects from due diligence and planning through execution, integration, or separation.
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously, balancing priorities, resources, timelines, risks, issues, and dependencies.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive project plans, milestones, budgets, resources, risks, and dependencies.
• Coordinate HR functional teams, cross-functional stakeholders, and external advisors to ensure integrated and timely project delivery.
• Lead HR due diligence and assess people-related risks, liabilities, costs, workforce implications, and potential impacts.
• Develop and execute HR integration, separation, restructuring, and change plans.
• Lead workforce transition activities involving HR services, HRIS, payroll, benefits, talent, communications, and employee experience.
• Partner with Corporate M&A, Strategy, Finance, Legal, IT, business leaders, and HR teams to align HR execution with transaction and business objectives.
• Build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders and facilitate alignment and resolution of complex issues.
• Support transaction activities, including negotiations, TSA development, cost analysis, and relevant documentation.
• Ensure appropriate management of labor law, regulatory, works council/union, and employee communication requirements.
• Support negotiations and engagement with unions and works councils during restructurings, divestitures, and integrations.
• Provide regular updates on project progress, risks, issues, dependencies, and recommendations to HR M&A leadership and governance forums.
• Serve as the day-to-day HR point of contact for assigned projects and escalate significant risks, issues, and decisions when required.
• Translate transaction and deal strategy into practical HR execution plans.
• Build and maintain project plans covering workforce transition, communications, employee experience continuity, and regulatory compliance.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of HR M&A processes, standards, and ways of working.
• Work effectively with HR leadership teams, Corporate M&A, Legal, Finance, IT, business leaders, and other cross-functional partners.

Required Skills

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required; preferred areas of study include Human Resources, Business Administration, Economics, Finance, or Taxation.
• 10+ years of professional experience, including significant hands-on experience leading HR teams through Mergers, Acquisitions, and/or Divestitures (M&A).
• Proven experience leading complex HR M&A projects in a consulting, project-driven, or multinational corporate environment; a management consulting or Big 4 professional services background is highly preferred.
• Strong experience across HR, Total Rewards, HR Operations, M&A, Project Management, and HR Systems.
• Demonstrated ability to translate M&A deal strategy into actionable HR execution plans, including workforce transitions, change management, employee experience, and HR implementation.
• Strong project management, planning, organization, prioritization, and execution skills, with the ability to manage multiple complex projects simultaneously.
• Excellent analytical, financial, problem-solving, communication, presentation, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong business acumen with commercial and strategic thinking and the ability to analyze complex information and communicate it clearly and concisely.
• Proven ability to build credibility and trusted relationships with senior leadership, cross-functional teams, vendors, external advisors, and other stakeholders.
• Strong experience working independently with minimal supervision and operating effectively as a trusted advisor and subject matter expert.
• Experience working in complex, matrixed, international organizations and across multiple cultures.
• Strong Microsoft Excel, reporting, and PowerPoint skills, with the ability to develop clear, concise, and well-organized presentations and business materials.
• Experience supporting union and works council negotiations and engagement.
• Strong judgment and discretion when handling confidential and sensitive information.
• Ability to thrive in ambiguous, fast-paced environments while managing competing priorities and multiple simultaneous projects.
• Self-starter with strong resilience, adaptability, work ethic, and time-management skills.
• English proficiency is mandatory; German proficiency is highly preferred.

TekWissen® Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.