Strategy Manager (Merger & Acquisitions)

Company Description

Galleon Consultants is a global management consulting firm established in 2016, serving multinational corporations across Australia, USA, Canada, Philippines, UK, and India. We specialize in Executive Search & Recruitment, Legal Services, Financial Services, Marketing & Automation, and Market Research & Compensation Benchmarking. Renowned for our client-focused approach, we deliver strategic insights that empower businesses to achieve growth, efficiency, and a competitive edge. Our integrated 360° consulting solutions combine expertise across key business functions to help organizations optimize operations and navigate complex challenges.

Role Description

This is a full-time remote role for a Strategy Manager (Merger & Acquisitions). The Strategy Manager will oversee end-to-end mergers and acquisitions processes, including market analysis, financial due diligence, and risk assessment. They will develop strategic insights to identify growth opportunities, provide actionable recommendations, and collaborate with cross-functional teams and clients. The role also involves creating financial models, leading client engagements, and ensuring successful execution of strategic initiatives.

• Managing the inception and initiation of projects in accordance with the GCoE Change agenda and M&A Framework, defining project approach, resource requirements and estimating project delivery timelines and cost
• Defining and agreeing project scope, deliverables, timescale, quality, cost and benefits to ensure the business case can be articulated, understood and agreed
• Defining, establishing and managing project structure, roles and teams to ensure efficient and effective project delivery
• Planning, managing, monitoring and reporting on the work of (sometimes disparate) project teams to deliver the outputs to the agreed timescale, quality and cost criteria
• Producing RAID logs and managing mitigation activities, including ongoing risk assessment
• Working with key Business stakeholders across multiple geographies in order to clarify project outputs, and timescale, quality and cost criteria; build sustainable relationships to enable the achievement of project objectives
• Providing leadership, direction and coaching to the project team
• Working with Information Technology / external application vendors to include their costs, activities and deliverables within the overall project scope and approach, providing challenge and support to ensure technology related outcomes are achieved
• Creating high level and detailed documents, using a mixture of pictorial and written means (within PowerPoint / Word) in order to effectively communicate with the project team, peers and stakeholders (including Executives and senior managers)
• Assisting the GCoE Business Leaders, Operations team, and wider teams to support the GCoE change agenda, including taking ownership of specific activities identified during organisational strategic leadership meetings.
• Proactively stay informed about industry trends and best practices to provide thought leadership in building a high-performing Change team aligned with the GCoE's strategic objectives.
• Support the broader Change Community by sharing insights and learnings relevant to the insurance industry, ensuring projects and change initiatives are set up for success.
• Complying with the Professional Standards Manual in accordance with statutory requirements for the role with specific attention, but not limited to, managing client and other sensitive data, Whistle Blowing, Treating Customers Fairly.