Mergers & Acquisitions Strategy & Diligence Senior Manager

Recruiting for this role ends on 3/13/2026.

Work You'll Do



As a Senior Manager, you will sell, lead and deliver complex strategic engagements that help our clients unlock value through inorganic growth and value creation. Senior Managers are expected to contribute to the firm's growth and development in a variety of ways. You will be responsible for engagement management as well as but not limited to the following:

• Partner with private equity clients as they evaluate their portfolio and engage in buy-side and sell-side inorganic opportunities
• Evaluate portfolio company operations to identify key business issues and deploy innovative value creation solutions
• Manage day-to-day interactions with executive clients and sponsors; participate and lead aspects of the proposal development process; contribute to the development of proposal pricing strategies
• Own and present project deliverables that reflect a high standard of analysis
• Execute on multiple projects concurrently and work with Manager-level personnel to ensure excellence in project work
• Manage direct on-time, quality delivery of work products
• Manage engagement economics and engagement risk
• Mentor and develop staff through informal coaching and day-to-day project interactions
• Improve internal processes and promote knowledge sharing in the team, by contributing to the community of practice, blogs, and other forms of market eminence
• Develop "point- of-view" documents, participate in public speaking events and get published in industry periodicals

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.

The M&A S&D practice is one of multiple practices within the M&A offering - collectively all the practices bring together market leading capabilities across the deal lifecycle. The M&A S&D team offers services ranging from M&A strategy to financial, operational, and commercial due diligence and value qualification, to structuring advice and financing options. They serve as strategic advisors to Deloitte's senior clients across corporations and investors as they contemplate inorganic strategies. Specifically, this team helps our clients define a strategy aligned with their objectives and industry trends, formalizing the target pursuit process for acquisitions and providing portfolio review and deal structuring for divestitures. M&A S&D starts by bringing bold ideas that shape the C-suite agenda, then develop strategies and rigorously test investment theses to support high-stakes decisions. They help identify, weigh, and compare growth pathways and potential targets to accelerate their pursuit of success. The team's services include providing M&A based growth options, portfolio rationalizations, buy/build/partner decisions, buy-side and sell-side readiness assessment, target identification and screening/scanning, pre-bid advisory and diligence, vendor assistance, value lever identification, tax and deal structuring and M&A innovative technologies.

Qualifications:

Required:

• A candidate must have 8+ years of M&A or M&A Service Delivery experience in the following areas:
  • Leading strategy and diligence (e.g., commercial, operational, carve-out etc.) engagements for large corporations and/ or mid-market PE clients/portfolio companies
  • Working with financial statements and complex models allowing for a strong understanding of where the numbers and data flow
  • Providing a broad continuum of advisory services to support mergers, acquisitions, carve-outs, and partnerships including developing strategy, target scans, and commercial and operational diligence
  • Partnering with senior executives to define how they employ M&A - in alignment with their corporate strategy
  • Setting and leading engagement objectives by defining the scope, plan and budget
  • Defining deliverable structure and content and facilitating buy-in of proposed strategies from top management levels at the client
  • Mobilizing and managing multiple engagement teams / workstreams
  • Experience either in client service or in a consultative role (e.g., Corp Dev, Business Development, or Strategy)
• A candidate must have 2+ years of business development experience in M&A
• Bachelor's degree and 8+ years consulting in a strategy consulting practice; alternatively, an MBA with 6+ years relevant work experience is acceptable.
• Ability to travel up to 50%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve
• Limited immigration sponsorship may be available

Preferred:

• Experience at a top strategy consulting firm or M&A Strategy focused boutique consulting firm
• Experience in a consultative role spending at-least 50% of their time advising PE clients
• Experience managing and interacting with C-Suite stakeholders
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Ability to apply practical experience with communications, culture, and change management
• Ability to perform analysis and synthesize data into useful insights
• Experience with staff development and eagerness to mentor junior practitioners
• Strong oral and written communication skills, including presentation skills (MS PowerPoint)
• An advanced degree (MBA; PhD; JD; MD; Masters)

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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 $175,300 to $322,900.

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: 326259

Job ID 326259

Client-provided location(s): Milwaukee, WI, Atlanta, GA, Kansas City, MO, Columbus, OH, Houston, TX, Boston, MA, Detroit, MI, Seattle, WA, Indianapolis, IN, San Diego, CA, Pittsburgh, PA, San Francisco, CA, Philadelphia, PA, New York, NY, Portland, OR, Cleveland, OH, Charlotte, NC, Raleigh, NC, Sacramento, CA, Minneapolis, MN, Tampa, FL, Las Vegas, NV, Los Angeles, CA, Austin, TX, Nashville, TN, Miami, FL, Dallas, TX, Denver, CO, Chicago, IL, Cincinnati, OH, Jacksonville, FL, San Jose, CA, Tempe, AZ, McLean, VA, Costa Mesa, CA, Darien, CT, Morristown, NJ

Job ID: Deloitte-326259

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2026-03-07T19:06:42