Insurance M&A Integration and Divestiture Manager

Deloitte • Cincinnati, OH

31d

About The Position

Our Deloitte Strategy & Transactions team helps guide clients through their most critical moments and transformational initiatives. We offer comprehensive end-to-end support and advisory services, covering areas such as valuation modeling, cost optimization, restructuring, business design and transformation, infrastructure and real estate, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and sustainability. The team works closely with clients at every stage of their journey, helping them navigate challenges, avoid financial pitfalls, and implement practical solutions before, during, and after major transformational projects or transactions creating lasting impact. Uniting organizations through M&A or establishing new entities via separations and divestitures can unlock significant value. Leveraging our Strategy & Governance (S&G) Integration & Divestiture (I&D) team within the M&A offering, our insurance clients are supported in shaping a resilient and prosperous future for their business through aiding in transaction execution and post-deal execution. Apply to this role today! Recruiting for this role ends on 12/1/2025. Work You'll Do As a Deloitte Manager in Insurance M&A S&G, you will lead and deliver small engagements or components of larger, complex engagements that identify, design, and implement creative business solutions for Insurance firms & companies. Deloitte's M&A S&D Insurance Managers help companies spur growth, reduce costs, and thrive in today's digital world. Our managers serve as mentors to staff, directors in delivery transformation, industry experts, and engagement leaders, while building on and participating in business development activities. Manager level responsibilities include: providing service excellence by identifying key client business issues determining client needs by supplementing the standard assessment techniques and tools with innovative approaches evaluating and validating analysis developing recommendations for the client in the context of the overall engagement implementing and overseeing the quality of deliverables and effectively managing the team(s) and day-to-day relationships to ensure exceptional performance The Team Our M&A team offers expert guidance to corporate and private equity clients in navigating complex growth and divestiture scenarios. Our services encompass M&A strategy and transaction diligence, integration and separation planning and execution, as well as transaction financing. The M&A I&D area is part of Deloitte's M&A Offering, within the broader Strategy & Transactions practice. Our practitioners guide deal execution by aligning integration or divestiture strategies, Day 1 plans, and future-state goals to maximize value in complex market conditions. Two services provided are integration strategy and divestiture strategy. We have skilled S&G team members in either of these services who focus on the time period between the announcement of a merger, acquisition or divestiture and the conclusion of post-close implementation activities. The S&G team incorporates best-in-class Management Office program management. They focus on those activities of program management that are key to seamless transitions, superior outcomes, and delivering value in our clients' integration or divestiture. Deloitte's insurance M&A S&G professionals help clients ranging in size from global to middle-market insurers-including life insurers, property and casualty insurers, reinsurers, and brokers-identify potential opportunities and targets for growth that align with their corporate strategies.

Requirements

• A candidate must have 6+ years of M&A or M&A service delivery experience in the following areas: day 1 certification; development of workplans and milestones; identification of functional interdependencies; facilitating cutover planning; testing and execution; or end-state blueprinting
• participating in setting engagement objectives and scope and developing work plans for components of engagements, coordinating activities between work streams, and identifying changes in scope
• designing deliverable content to precisely reflect the engagement contract and client needs
• managing cross-functional teams to deliver M&A engagements across all of phases of the M&A lifecycle including due-diligence, pre-close, and post-merger integration
• providing corporate and private equity buyers with a broad continuum of advisory services to support mergers, acquisitions, carve-outs, investment and financing structures, disposition alternatives, and post-transaction activities
• partnering with senior executives to define how they employ M&A - in alignment with their corporate strategy - to drive profitable growth and enable them to compete effectively in their industry
• providing industry insight and analytical support using data mining, pattern matching, data visualization, and predictive modelling tools to produce analysis and algorithms that enables pre-deal and post-deal integration, divestiture, and major restructuring/cost transformation activities to achieve/exceed deal value, synergy targets, or strategic cost takeout objectives
• participating in and leading aspects of the proposal development process
• 6+ years of experience working in consulting/service delivery for insurance clients or within an insurance corporation
• Bachelor's degree and 6+ years consulting and/or industry experience; alternatively, an MBA with 4+ years relevant work experience
• Limited immigration sponsorship may be available
• Ability to travel up to 50%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve

Nice To Haves

• Recent experience working in a professional services consulting firm
• Strong oral and written communication skills, including presentation skills (MS Visio, MS PowerPoint)
• Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills with the ability to exercise mature judgment
• Ability to apply practical experience with communications, culture, and change management
• Ability to perform analysis and synthesize data into useful insights
• Experience in financial analysis, business process reengineering and operational performance improvement analysis
• Experience with staff development and eagerness to mentor junior practitioners.
• An MBA or advanced degree

Responsibilities

• providing service excellence by identifying key client business issues
• determining client needs by supplementing the standard assessment techniques and tools with innovative approaches
• evaluating and validating analysis
• developing recommendations for the client in the context of the overall engagement
• implementing and overseeing the quality of deliverables and effectively managing the team(s) and day-to-day relationships to ensure exceptional performance

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees