People Director, Mergers & Acquisitions

Job Description:

Job Summary

Reporting to the Senior Director, People Strategy & Transformation, the People Director, M&A is responsible for planning, organizing, and managing merger and acquisition strategy as it relates to People (HR) initiatives to include project management, resources (internal and/or external), budgets, and vendor relations. This role oversees the overall strategy, direction, and execution of all merger and acquisition projects ensuring consistency with NAPA’s strategies, commitments, and goals.

Responsibilities

• The Director, People M&A will represent the People organization on acquisition transactions by partnering with People team members and cross-functional integration leads to drive all critical talent and organizational initiatives.
• This is an influential role, combining strategic planning, general business management, and project management to drive successful transitions.
• The Director, People M&A is responsible for driving our integration strategy across transactions while working with the People teams to customize requirements and business needs.
• This individual will coordinate and project lead across workstreams and team members including: Executive People sponsor, Lead Business Partners, Corporate Development, Total Rewards, People Systems, People Operations, Talent Management & Learning, Technology, Finance, Communications, Legal, Sales, Supply Chain, and Operations
• The leader must be able to rapidly establish credibility and trust with all levels of the organization and be comfortable interacting with and influencing the C-Suite
• Provide guidance on standard and best practice People M&A processes.
• Identify and mitigate risks and integration challenges for People team and provide solutions based on People integration strategies.
• Understand People strategy and transformation roadmap, ensuring integration planning fits with the future plans.
• Coordinate closely with the broader M&A team on change management and communications.
• Utilize project management expertise for merger and acquisition People projects to positively impact employee lifecycle and business outcomes.
• Negotiates sufficient resources from Corporate and Field HR Teams, Functional Teams, Business Units, and other groups as appropriate.
• Effectively sets and communicates project expectations to team members and stakeholders.
• Defines project success criteria and communicates to team throughout project life cycle.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years working knowledge of HR systems, processes, trends, and best practices.
• Previous HR project management experience including demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously with different stakeholder sets.
• Strong interpersonal, organizational, analytical, presentation and critical thinking skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant field or relevant work experience.
• PMP, PgMP, CAPM, and/or comparable project management certifications.

Leadership Skills

• Embodies the following values: serve, perform, influence, respect, innovate, team.
• Effectively communicates by motivating and inspiring others through clear and proactive communication.
• Delivers results and drives customer success by committing and focusing on outcomes to deliver results and making the customer the center of decisions.
• Makes balanced decisions and thinks strategically by being a forward thinker.
• People Operations Capabilities
• Business Acumen: Must possess industry, organization, and financial knowledge.
• Strategic Consulting: Must be able to provide consultative problem-solving, as well as project and risk management competency.
• Relationship Management: Must promote collaboration, networking, persuasion and influence.
• Data Judgement: Must be able to provide data foundations, interpretation and storytelling.
• Talent Management: Provide strategic HR expertise, employee experience management, change management and technological savviness.

•  Agility: Must lead with a growth mindset and drive innovation and iteration.

Physical Demands / Working Environment

•  Must be able to work in a corporate office setting.

Job Posting Title: People Director, M&A

Not the right fit?  Let us know you're interested in a future opportunity by joining our Talent Community onjobs.genpt.comor create an account to set up email alerts as new job postings become available that meet your interest!

GPC conducts its business without regard to sex, race, creed, color, religion, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, age, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, disability, military status, status as a veteran, or any other protected characteristic. GPC's policy is to recruit, hire, train, promote, assign, transfer and terminate employees based on their own ability, achievement, experience and conduct and other legitimate business reasons.