Company Description

Informa is a leading business intelligence, events, and academic publishing business operating in the Knowledge and Information Economy.

Our leading brands and expert teams create intelligence-based products and data-driven services, convene communities in person and digitally and provide access to cutting-edge research for customers working in specialist markets, worldwide.

We are listed on London Stock Exchange and a member of the FTSE 100, operating in more than 30 countries and employing over 11,000 people globally.

Informa’s divisions include:

• Informa Connect, a specialist in content-driven events and digital communities that allow professionals to meet, connect, learn and share knowledge.
• Informa Intelligence, providing digital intelligence and data-based products, consultancy and research services that help businesses in specialist markets make better informed decisions, spot opportunities and gain competitive edge.
• Informa Markets, creating platforms for international markets to trade, innovate and grow. Through over 500 leading brands, our exhibitions, specialist digital content and data solutions allow customers operating in specialist markets to meet and trade, and for their businesses and markets to thrive.
• Informa Tech, a division bringing specialism in technology. We aim to inspire the global technology community to design, build and run a better digital world through research, media, training and events that inform, educate and connect businesses and professionals working in technology.
• Taylor & Francis, specialist in scholarly research and in helping academic and research communities make new breakthroughs. We commission, curate, produce and publish scholarly research and reference-led content in specialist subject areas, helping to advance research and enabling knowledge to be discovered and shared.
• Global Support is Informa's sixth division, with major hubs in the United Kingdom, United States, Hong Kong and Singapore as well as several smaller locations. As the team behind the teams, Global Support colleagues provide shared, efficient business services and function-specific expertise to each of Informa's operating divisions, enabling our commercial teams to focus on their markets and customers.

Job Description

The M&A Benefits Specialist is responsible for leading the end-to-end Benefits transitions for mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, divestitures, and other corporate transactions that will include project management, due diligence, planning for integration and separations across all global benefits.

The role requires a high energy, highly analytical, organised, entrepreneurial spirited and a passionate person to join the Informa team. The individual will be an excellent communicator with strong project management, interpersonal, presentation and organisational skills.

Key responsibilities:

The M&A Benefits Specialist is expected to assume the following key responsibilities plus any other reasonable duties as required:

• The M&A Benefits Specialist role is primarily responsible for the support of benefits due diligence and integration/separation activities, including providing project management support on multiple concurrent mergers, acquisitions and divestitures and other transactions.
• The role will partner with various internal teams but also external acquisition teams to as a first point of contact for the discovery phases of acquisition.
• Manage the Benefits critical work stream activity for mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures.
• Responsible for understanding the deal structure for each specific Division or market.
• Develop and present Benefits due diligence reports and recommendations.
• Quantify and analyse major areas of Benefits risk and opportunities, e.g. buy outs, renewal and individual agreements
• Plan and manage the Benefits aspects of the integration of acquisitions
• Develop integration and execution plans aligned to transitioning or integrating in the Benefit processes
• Identify, track, and monitor risks and issues with developing solutions for Benefits deliverables in change management, workforce administration, policies, processes, and communication.
• Lead the development of project plans, transitional service agreements, change management, communications and deliverables aligned to the overall business plan.
• Lead on any post integration projects requiring audits or data collation
• Work with the rest of the M and A deal team to ensure Benefits data integration transfer across efficiently and accurately and is in place from day one
• Deliver deal specific M&A education workshops ensuring the HR community/New colleagues are fully aware of the benefits structure and any differences.

Qualifications

• Strong background in global Benefits.
• Results orientated, highly tenacious and pragmatic, with a balance of assurance and personal humility.
• Confident, decisive and dynamic individual who sets high standards for themselves and others.
• Able to consistently demonstrate integrity, initiative and commitment to the business combined with outstanding project management, budgeting and prioritisation skills.
• Comfortable working in an environment with tight deadlines and significant level of ambiguity
• Ability to absorb and process large quantities of disparate information and assess quickly.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with business leaders to develop HR plans and execution plans leveraging various functional HR groups.
• Ability to effectively manage competing priorities in a fast paced environment.
• Excellent interpersonal/influencing skills, including ability build relationships and leverage resources within the HR function.
• Proficient in technology and understanding of HR data management.
• Analytics: Identifies rules, principles, or relationships that explain facts, data, or other information; analyses information and makes correct inferences or draws accurate conclusions.
• Problem Solving: Identifies problems; determines accuracy and relevance of information; uses sound judgment to generate and evaluate alternatives, and to make recommendations.
• Attention to Detail: Is thorough when performing work and conscientious about attending to detail. Is hands on when required and sees strategies and programs through to completion. In particular any mergers, acquisitions or divestiture programs.
• Solution Orientation: Not afraid to challenge the status quo and develop frameworks to identify and enable pragmatic and practical solutions, thinks through implications and able to balance short term needs with longer term impacts across all facets of the organisation.
• Flexibility: Is open to change and new information; adapts behaviour or work methods in response to new information, changing conditions, or unexpected obstacles; effectively deals with ambiguity.
• Creative Thinking: Uses imagination to develop new insights into situations and applies innovative solutions to problems; designs new methods where established methods and procedures are inapplicable or are unavailable.
• Stress Tolerance: Deals calmly and effectively with high stress situations (e.g. extreme deadlines, challenging individuals, emergency situations).
• Skills in Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Outlook are essential
• Experience in the management of an international team of colleagues across various countries required.

Knowledge & Qualifications

• Experience of leading an international benefits function (including US based benefit programmes) within a regulated PLC environment.
• Experience of managing global benefits through a fast-paced organisation and building successful collaborative relationships at all levels, with a focus on responding positively to a constantly changing environment.
• Possess the relevant degree or professional qualification such as a Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development (CIPD) or equivalent professional membership and have equivalent HR experience, with detailed knowledge of international/global

Additional Information

Why work at Informa?

Employee experience is very important to us at Informa. On top of joining a supportive, diverse and ambitious team that welcomes all types of candidates. We are also flexible with different working patterns and prioritize promotions internally. Our benefits include:

• Learning and development plan to assist with your career development
• 25 days annual leave, 4 days for volunteering and a day off for your birthday!
• Competitive Benefits
• Work with high quality specialist products
• Bright and friendly staff who are all “expert’s experts” and additional training and development for helping you achieve your career aspiration
• Share-Match options - become a shareholder
• Regular social events and networking opportunities

We know that sometimes the 'perfect candidate' doesn't exist, and that people can be put off applying for a job if they don't fit all the requirements. If you're excited about working for us and have most of the skills or experience we're looking for, please go ahead and apply. You could be just what we need! We believe strongly in the value of diversity and creating supportive, inclusive environments where our colleagues can succeed.

As such, Informa is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, or religious creed, mental or physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship, or other protected characteristics under federal, state or local law.

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