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Position Summary

Our Deloitte Strategy & Transactions team helps guide clients through their most critical moments and transformational initiatives. We offer comprehensive end-to-end support and advisory services, covering areas such as valuation modeling, cost optimization, restructuring, business design and transformation, infrastructure and real estate, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and sustainability. The team works closely with clients at every stage of their journey, helping them navigate challenges, avoid financial pitfalls, and implement practical solutions before, during, and after major transformational projects or transactions creating lasting impact.

There are many phases of the M&A lifecycle... as part of Deloitte's M&A offering, our M&A Integration & Divestiture (I&D) professionals focus on the time period between the announcement of a merger, acquisition or divestiture and the closing (and post-close) activities of that transaction. If you are a closer who gets the deal done-apply to this Manager role today!

Recruiting for this role will end on 11/30/2026

A successful candidate would possess these skills:

• Ability to work independently and collaborate as part of a team.

• Effective written and verbal communication skills.

• Meticulous attention to detail and quality of work product.

• Ability to build and sustain professional relationships.

• Ability to lead projects or workstreams.

• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.

• Strong interpersonal skills and professional demeanor.

• Ability to meet deadlines.

• Ability to provide clear guidance to others.

Work You'll Do

M&A I&D Managers at Deloitte create value for our clients by advising and aiding them to deliver faultless executions of M&A transactions across their enterprise. Our M&A I&D practitioners guide deal execution by aligning integration or divestiture strategies, Day 1 plans, and future-state goals to maximize value in complex market conditions. As a Deloitte Manager in M&A I&D, you will lead and deliver small engagements or components of larger, complex engagements that identify, design, and implement creative business solutions for companies. Deloitte's M&A I&D Managers serve as mentors to staff, directors in delivery transformation, industry experts and engagement leaders, while building on and participating in business development activities. Manager level responsibilities include but are not limited to:

* providing service excellence by identifying key client business issues
* determining client needs by supplementing the standard assessment techniques and tools with innovative approaches
* evaluating and validating analysis
* developing recommendations for the client in the context of the overall engagement
* implementing and overseeing the quality of deliverables and effectively managing the team(s) and day-to-day relationships to ensure exceptional performance

The Team

Our M&A team offers expert guidance to corporate and private equity clients in navigating complex growth and divestiture scenarios. Our services encompass M&A strategy and transaction diligence, integration and separation planning and execution, as well as transaction financing.

Within our M&A offering, the I&D practice supports major, market-shaping mergers and divestitures with deep functional and industry knowledge, as well as innovative data and analytics-enabled approaches. Our professionals are drawn from teams across the globe with experience that includes more than 15,000 transactions and over $1 Trillion dollars in deal value. Our specialized group of experts help our clients navigate complex market and economic conditions, which enables them to become prepared buyers or sellers, incorporating their divestment goals and planning for seamless execution to enhance deal value. Our dedicated group focuses on those activities of program management that are key to delivering value in an integration or divestiture. The scope of the work may include Day 1 certification; development of workplans and milestones; identification of functional interdependencies; facilitating cutover planning; testing and execution; or end-state blueprinting. Part of our team prepares our clients for Day 1 implementation of an integration. In the same token, we have clients who are divesting an asset or selling a company where we manage costs and timelines to minimize business disruption.

Qualifications:

Required:

* A candidate must have 6+ years of M&A or M&A service delivery experience in the following areas:
* participating in setting engagement objectives and scope and developing work plans for components of engagements, coordinating activities between work streams, and identifying changes in scope
* designing deliverable content to precisely reflect the engagement contract and client needs
* managing cross-functional teams to deliver M&A engagements across all of phases of the M&A lifecycle including due-diligence, pre-close, and post-merger integration
* providing corporate and private equity buyers with a broad continuum of advisory services to support mergers, acquisitions, carve-outs, investment and financing structures, disposition alternatives and post-transaction activities
* partnering with senior executives to define how they employ M&A - in alignment with their corporate strategy - to drive profitable growth and enable them to compete effectively in their industry
* providing industry insight and analytical support using data mining, pattern matching, data visualization, and predictive modelling tools to produce analysis and algorithms that enable pre-deal and post-deal integration, divestiture, and major restructuring/cost transformation activities to achieve/exceed deal value, synergy targets, or strategic cost takeout objectives
* participating in and leading aspects of the proposal development process
* Bachelor's degree and 6+ years consulting and/or industry experience; alternatively, an MBA with 4+ years relevant work experience
* Limited immigration sponsorship may be available
* Ability to travel up to 50%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve

*You must reside within a commutable distance of your assigned office with the ability to commute daily, if required, without the need for overnight accommodations.

*You can expect to co-locate on average 1-2 times a week with variations based on types of work/projects and client locations.

Preferred:

* Recent experience working in a professional services consulting firm
* Strong oral and written communication skills, including presentation skills (MS Visio, MS PowerPoint)
* Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills with the ability to exercise mature judgment
* Ability to apply practical experience with communications, culture, and change management
* Ability to perform analysis and synthesize data into useful insights
* Experience in financial analysis, business process reengineering, and operational performance improvement analysis
* Experience with staff development and eagerness to mentor junior practitioners.
* An MBA or advanced degree

Information for applicants with a need for accommodation: https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/careers/articles/join-deloitte-assistance-for-disabled-applicants.html

The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Deloitte, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $155,700 to $306,800.

You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.

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Requisition code: 352226

Job ID 352226

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