Project Manager - M&A

Project Manager – M&A Integration

If you are an excellent project manager who has led a couple of projects related to mergers and acquisitions and enjoy driving cross-functional alignment in fast-moving environments, please keep reading.

Start Date: July 2026 Duration: 4 month W2 contract Location: Hybrid to San Diego, CA Compensation: Starting at $85/hr W2 plus benefits

The Project Manager will support integration activities across active M&A initiatives. The ideal candidate brings enough M&A project experience to navigate integration work with confidence — and the curiosity and adaptability to grow into new areas of the work as needed.

Background in M&A integration, separation, corporate development, or M&A/strategy consulting — experience supporting healthcare, medtech, or software companies is a plus

Experience supporting or leading cross-functional work across complex, concurrent deals

Familiarity with integration approaches, Day-1 operating model design, entanglement analysis, and Transition Service Agreements (TSAs)

Comfortable working with deal models, synergy cases, and P&L trade-offs and translating them into practical operating decisions

Strong communication skills with the ability to engage senior stakeholders and present clearly to executive audiences

Experience contributing to playbooks, frameworks, or IMO tooling is a plus

Highly adaptable, collaborative, and intellectually curious — able to lead through influence in a matrixed environment

What You'll Be Doing

Integration Strategy and Deal Alignment Partner with deal leads and business sponsors during diligence to help translate deal objectives, value drivers, and risks into a practical integration or separation strategy

Help recommend integration approaches and Day-1 operating models based on target attributes, strategic intent, and risk profile

Support the connection between integration strategy and underlying deal assumptions, including integration costs, one-time costs, and pace-of-integration trade-offs

Surface integration-driven implications that may affect negotiation posture, deal structure, or purchase price

Integration Planning Convert diligence outputs, requirements, and risks into a comprehensive integration plan covering scope, workplan, resource plan, budget, and RAID log

Define workstream structure, decision rights, and governance across contributing and impacted functions

Support the design of Transition Service Agreements (TSAs), including scope, duration, pricing, and exit criteria

Build Day-1 readiness plans with clear operational, legal, and communication guardrails

Integration Execution and Governance Support the Integration Management Office as a central point of coordination across functional workstreams

Engage workstream leads to stay aligned on scope, deliverables, and interdependencies, and help resolve risks and issues in a timely manner

Support core team and steering committee meeting cadences, maintain an up-to-date plan of record, and assist with change control on scope, schedule, and budget

Contribute to scenario planning and executive decision-making through data-driven trade-off analyses

Help manage advisory partners to ensure delivery on plan and budget

Value Realization, Tracking, and Reporting Help define and track integration KPIs and critical success factors tied to deal objectives — including revenue and margin retention, synergy capture, key-talent retention, Day-1 stability, and compliance posture

Assist in preparing clear, executive-level updates that translate operational detail into strategic narrative

Track integration and one-time costs against approved budgets and support corrective actions when needed

Playbook and Capability Development Contribute to building and improving integration and separation playbooks, operating model transformation frameworks, and related accelerators

Support an approach that leverages automation and modern tooling across diligence, workplan generation, and deal business intelligence

Help codify learnings from deals into repeatable, scalable processes

Act as a collaborative resource and trusted partner to functional leaders across the organization

Soft Skills: Works well in a fast-paced environment, proactive, dynamic, accountable

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