The IT M&A Transaction Manager leads the end-to-end execution of IT deal activities for mergers, acquisitions, and carve-outs, ensuring business continuity, managing deal risks, and building scalable IT M&A playbooks to accelerate value realization. The role operates in an agile, dynamic working culture and an inclusive, ethical workplace, collaborating with senior stakeholders across a global organisation to deliver meaningful work that enhances employee experience, operational excellence, and lasting business impact.
Tasks
- Lead IT workstreams across acquisitions, mergers, divestitures, and carve-outs, from initial due diligence through Day 1 readiness, post-close integration/separation, and handover.
- Plan and conduct comprehensive IT due diligence across infrastructure, enterprise applications, cybersecurity, GxP/regulatory compliance, contracts, and licensing.
- Quantify IT deal risks, one-time costs, stranded costs, and technical debt to build robust business cases and realize cost-synergy opportunities.
- Define target-state IT operating models and execute Day 1 readiness plans for identity/access, networks, cyber controls, and critical applications.
- Establish and manage Transition Service Agreements (TSAs/SSAs), including scope, SLAs, pricing, governance, and exit criteria, alongside Legal, HR, Finance, and Procurement.
- Coordinate cross-functional IT teams, external advisors, and vendors to execute integration/separation roadmaps, manage project risks (RAID), and protect business continuity.
- Capture lessons learned to continuously enhance scalable IT M&A playbooks, estimation models, and repeatable blueprints for future transaction speed and quality.
Requirements
- Proven track record managing the full IT transaction lifecycle, from due diligence and Day 1 readiness to post-close integration, separation, and TSA exit.
- Deep technical grasp spanning cloud, infrastructure, networks, cybersecurity, and core enterprise applications (ERP, QMS, LIMS, CRM, DMS).
- Strong expertise in financial modeling for deal costs, including standalone costs, stranded costs, synergy targets, technical debt, and TSA pricing.
- Hands-on experience structuring TSA/SSA service catalogs, defining SLAs/KPIs, managing vendor transitions, and executing exit strategies.
- Solid knowledge of cybersecurity, data integrity, and GxP/CSV regulatory standards within life sciences or CDMO environments.
- Strong matrix leadership and communication skills, with a pragmatic, high-ownership mindset to solve problems under deal-line pressure.
- Exceptional ability to drive complex project execution using RAID management, dependency tracking, budgeting, and executive reporting.
Benefits
- An agile dynamic working culture.
- An inclusive and ethical workplace.
- Collaboration with senior stakeholders across a global organisation.
- Meaningful work that enhances employee experience, operational excellence, and delivers lasting business impact.
- Access to global benefits.
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