Senior Manager, HR M&A

Labcorp is a global leader in laboratory services, providing the insights and answers that help healthcare providers, patients, researchers, pharmaceutical companies and health systems make confident decisions and improve outcomes. Through our unparalleled science, data, technology and laboratory network, we advance diagnostics, accelerate innovation and help address some of the world’s most important health challenges. As we shape the future of healthcare, we are leveraging advanced technologies, intelligent digital solutions and data-driven innovation across our operations to enhance how work gets done and deliver greater value to customers and patients. With our global scale and deep expertise, you’ll have the opportunity to do meaningful work, grow your career and make a real impact on people’s health around the world. Together, we’re improving health and improving lives.

Labcorp is seeking a Senior Manager, HR M&A to join our team.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Leads the HR workstream for assigned M&A projects from diligence through integration, partnering with Division/Functional HRBPs and HR COEs to coordinate all HR efforts and to identify and reduce operational HR risks.
• Provides expertise, strategic consulting as well as thought leadership to help drive effective people strategies for each deal and influence deal negotiations accordingly.
• Analyzes target company data to identify key HR-related financial exposures in a due diligence context, including those related to compensation and benefits plans.
• Review and provide input on purchase agreements, disclosure schedules, presentation materials, employee communications.
• Build and manage detailed project management plans for M&A transactions, from diligence to integration, coordinating HR COE activities to meet deal timeline. Manages multiple concurrent deals.
• Lead HR team meetings, serve as HR functional lead on diligence calls, develop HR integration plan for IMO team. Owns the HR integration plan and Day 1 / Day 30 deliverables.
• Provide input on HR best practices on processes that will be utilized during all merger and/or acquisition initiatives, both domestic and international, continuously improving the deal execution and integration processes utilizing integration checklists, project templates, best practices and project management tools pertaining to HR.
• Serves as the primary point of contact between Labcorp HR and Seller HR throughout the transaction lifecycle, building trusted relationships and managing information requests, data exchanges and transition decisions.
• Leads discovery of the seller's HR, payroll, compensation, benefits, leave and HR policy practices. Documents current-state vs. Labcorp gaps and recommends transition approaches.
• Partners with Total Rewards, Compensation, and Payroll COEs to plan employee moves to Labcorp benefit plans, pay practices and payroll, including timing, transition service agreements (TSAs) and any bridge or harmonization strategies.
• Coordinates Workday data conversion, onboarding and Day 1 readiness for acquired employees.
• Develops employee communications, FAQs and manager toolkits with HRBPs, and supports town halls and change management.
• Tracks integration milestones, risks and decisions, and, in partnership with the lead HRBP, reports status to HR leadership and the Integration Management Office (IMO).

Minimum Qualifications:

• 6+ years of HR experience, including experience in mergers and acquisitions
• Bachelor's Degree, preferably in HR or similar field

Additional Job Standards:

• Demonstrated minimum of 4-5 years’ project/program management experience.
• Hands-on experience leading HR integration of acquired employees, including benefit, payroll and compensation transitions.

• Broad HR generalist knowledge with understanding of complete employment lifecycle
• Experience in international HR and M&A a strong plus
• Working knowledge of US benefit plans, compensation structures and job architecture/leveling
• Experience working directly with seller or target-company HR teams
• Demonstrated leadership and management skills with the ability to drive to consensus on creative approaches to solving unique challenges in transitioning acquisition employees to Labcorp.
• Proven ability to build credibility and influence with Seller HR and leadership, often before close and without formal authority.
• Strong project management skills, including demonstrated ability to think end-to-end and manage multiple projects simultaneously with tight deadlines, ambiguous data, and rapidly shifting priorities
• Keen attention to detail and accuracy, hands-on mentality, ability to influence in a global, matrixed environment
• Knowledge of Workday utilizing best practices for M&A activities

• Strong written and verbal communications; presentation skills.

About the Role:

This role is an integral part of the Global HR M&A team, reporting to the Sr. Director, HR M&A. The Sr. …