HR Senior Manager, Mergers Acquisitions and Divestitures
UL Solutions · Northbrook
The UL Solutions HR Business Advisor team serves as a trusted strategic partner to leaders across the organization, helping drive business success through thoughtful people strategies, organizational effectiveness, and enterprise transformation. The team works closely with business leaders and HR Centers of Expertise to ensure that talent, culture, organizational design, and workforce decisions support UL Solutions' growth objectives around the world.
About This Role
This role is a key member of the HR Business Advisor team and leads the people-related aspects of mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, strategic partnerships, and integration initiatives. Acting as the HR subject matter expert throughout the transaction lifecycle, the position partners with Corporate Development, business leaders, Legal, Total Rewards, Finance, Payroll, IT, and HR stakeholders to assess workforce-related risks and opportunities, develop Day 1 readiness and integration strategies, and ensure a seamless employee experience.
The role combines strategic consulting, due diligence, organizational design, change management, and program leadership to help UL Solutions successfully execute complex business transactions while maintaining compliance, operational continuity, and alignment with the company's people practices and culture. Leads HR due diligence activities for acquisitions, mergers, divestitures, and strategic partnerships, including employee census review, workforce data requests, people-related risk assessment, and HR integration planning.
Scope of responsibilities may vary by deal size and complexity.
- Assesses organizational structures, leadership roles, job hierarchy, reporting relationships, job levels, job titles, employment contracts, employee obligations, and workforce demographics to inform transaction decisions and target-state organization design.
- Partners with business leaders and HR Advisory to develop organization design, job mapping, title harmonization, transition plans, and role implementation recommendations aligned to UL Solutions job architecture and governance standards.
- Evaluates compensation programs, salary structures, broad-based plans, executive compensation matters, incentive plans, equity or share programs, and other rewards arrangements; partners with Total Rewards, Finance, Accounting, and Legal to develop harmonization and transition recommendations.
- Designs and coordinates retention award strategies for critical talent, including governance, eligibility considerations, cost implications, communication needs, and implementation dependencies.
- Evaluates benefits programs including health, retirement, leave, wellness, statutory benefits, country-specific arrangements, vendor relationships, grandfathered provisions, and transition requirements; partners with
- Total Rewards, Legal, Accounting, and external advisors on benefit integration plans.
- Assesses works council, union, employee representative, collective consultation, labor relations, and employment law requirements; partners with Legal, HR Advisory and Field HR to develop compliant consultation, communication, and implementation approaches.
- Leads policy due diligence and harmonization planning, including review of acquired-company policies, local statutory requirements, UL Solutions policy alignment, employee communications, and approval requirements.
- Leads Oracle HR / HRIS due diligence and integration planning, including current-state HR systems assessment, data mapping and conversion, employee record creation, organization structure setup, security access, reporting requirements, system training, and Ask HR / HR service delivery readiness.
- Partners with Payroll on employee setup, payroll transition planning, cutover readiness, tax and statutory requirements, pay cycle alignment, timekeeping dependencies, and payroll harmonization activities.
- Partners with Accounting and Finance on employee liabilities, compensation and benefit accruals, retention award costs, integration cost tracking, synergy assumptions, and transaction-related workforce financial impacts.
- Partners with IT on systems access, identity management, data migration, security, application integration, device and access readiness, and technology cutover requirements that impact employees and HR operations.
- Partners with Legal on transaction documentation, employee transfer requirements, employment law and labor law obligations, works council and consultation requirements, policy transitions, and employee communications.
- Develops Day 1 readiness plans and post-close HR integration roadmaps, including milestones, dependencies, decision points, governance routines, issue escalation, risk mitigation, status reporting, and success measures.
- Coordinates HR integration governance with Corporate Development, the Integration Management Office, HR functional workstream leads, external advisors, and business stakeholders; prepares executive-ready updates, decision documents, and escalation materials.
- Develops change management, stakeholder engagement, leadership alignment, employee communications, and culture integration inputs to support adoption and minimize disruption for acquired employees and UL Solutions teams.
- Identifies and mitigates integration risks related to information availability, Day 1 non-negotiables, Transition Services Agreements, local regulatory timelines, data quality, systems readiness, employee experience, and compliance.
- Contributes business success by performing other tasks as required.
Reads and follows the Underwriters Laboratories Code of Conduct and follows all physical and digital security practices.
A global leader in applied safety science, UL Solutions (NYSE: ULS) transforms safety, security and sustainability challenges into opportunities for customers in more than 110 countries. UL Solutions delivers testing, inspection and certification services, together with software products and advisory offerings, that support our customers’ product innovation and business growth. The UL Mark serves as a recognized symbol of trust in our customers’ products and reflects an unwavering commitment to advancing our safety mission. We help our customers innovate, launch new products and services, navigate global markets and complex supply chains, and grow sustainably and responsibly into the future. Our science is your advantage.