Project Manager – M&A

Back Location San Diego Type Contract Duration 4 months Start Date July 2026 Skills project management, M&A integrations Reference # Job-11867 Job Description 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 Project Manager – M&A Integration 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 #LI-DNI For more information, please email: Job-11867@thecarreraagency.com null Project Manager – M&A