Senior People & Culture Advisor (Mergers and Acquisitions)

Ready to create new opportunities in uncharted territory?

Our team and what we’ll accomplish together

We are looking for bright people who enjoy solving problems. At TELUS, People & Culture (P&C) is not your traditional HR team, and this is not your traditional P&C Advisor role. We embrace change and have fun re-inventing the future of work. We are as passionate about our team as we are about our business, and we’re looking for people who get excited about thinking and delivering differently, thinking out of the box, and enjoy giving support to other team members.

As a Senior M&A Advisor within People & Culture, you wear multiple hats:

• You work closely with your colleagues in the P&C M&A team, P&C Business partners, business leads, and multiple shared services stakeholders to assess if an acquisition will support the strategy through its people and culture
• You are a curious, energetic, and results-driven teammate who can work in an environment of ambiguity, challenge the status quo, and foster collaborative partnerships to drive the future of P&C M&A activities at TELUS
• Your counsel is equal parts logic, analysis, strategy and execution. You have a natural curiosity and thrive in an environment where new learnings are daily achievements. Your passion for delivering a remarkable team member experience drives better outcomes for our business and customers. You care deeply about the details that will make or break the success of an acquisition
• Supported by the Director of People & Culture M&A, you will balance multiple P&C M&A projects by leading all the P&C due diligence and transaction closing activities. This will include providing strategic insight for our leaders as well as ensuring high quality and consistent delivery of HR due diligence valuation, collaborating on post-acquisition integration activities and evolving the service delivery model of HR M&A

What you’ll do

• Lead and project manage all the activities of due diligence to the conclusion of a transaction
• Analyze and understand the culture and people practices of an organization to highlight risks and opportunities during due diligence phase
• Assess the talent in the organization to identify potential and fit
• Design compensation strategies to support key talent retention
• Contribute to the business case valuation through the estimation of the cost of integration to TELUS people practices and recommendation of the integration strategy balancing financial impact and team member experience
• Provide guidance on people matters in purchase agreements
• Share and implement best practices throughout the M&A lifecycle
• Collaborate on P&C strategic integration planning for post-acquisition integration activities
• Contribute to the development of a strong communication and change management plan to achieve and accelerate the value of the acquisition
• Continuously enhance the P&C M&A playbook, service delivery model and valuation tools for speed and high quality of delivery and exceptional team member experience
• Create presentations, facilitate conversations and develop support materials, to help bring organizations together

What you bring

• Strategic Thinker: Sees things holistically, generates and applies unique business insights to create successful outcomes for the business and team members
• Passionate problem solver: Demonstrates the fundamentals of digging into a problem, conducting targeted analysis, building recommendations and executing on those recommendations
• Exceptional communicator and demonstrate good discernment: Clear, concise and influential at an executive level in all aspects of communication and facilitation. You know how to navigate the organizational dynamics
• Self-motivated learner: Seeks to understand and grow knowledge, skills and personal capabilities
• Strong collaborator and relationship builder: Someone others actively seek out to partner with and who engages multiple stakeholders to ensure seamless communication and a strong focus on finding the right solutions for a successful outcome
• Energized by fast-paced environments: Comfortable in continuously changing, dynamic environments
• Pragmatic project manager: Leads in a structured way the various activities related projects. Knows when a project plan is needed, or when a simple list will get the job done
• Influencer: Influences leaders and peers to gain support and overcome resistance with data and persuasion
• Interested in the details: Analyzes a large amount of data and is able to extract and summarize which ones matter to the success of an acquisition
• Results-oriented: Manages performance, holding self and others accountable to effectively and efficiently complete work responsibilities

Great-to-haves

• Bachelor’s degree with an MBA or advanced degree preferred or equivalent experience and education
• 7-10 years of equivalent work experience tied to HR and/or M&A functions
• Proven track record on leading & delivering complex projects
• Bilingual in English and French, written and spoken, is an asset