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Description

At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared values and Leadership Behaviors, and an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and colleagues. As part of Team Amex, you'll experience this powerful backing with comprehensive support for your holistic well-being and many opportunities to learn new skills, develop as a leader, and grow your career.

Here, your voice and ideas matter, your work makes an impact, and together, you will help us define the future of American Express.

The Colleague Experience Group (CEG, formerly Human Resources) Servicing team services all colleague programs & offerings globally. This includes Compensation, Benefits, Retirement, Long term Incentives, Leave of Absence, Recruitment, Learning and Payroll Operations. It is a complex, fast paced environment which offers up new challenges to stretch your skills every day. This position is part of the CEG Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) and Vendor Management team.

The CEG M&A team provides strategic leadership and delivery of the colleague-related aspects of due diligence, integration and divestiture planning, and transaction execution, as well as structuring and implementation for JVs and other corporate transactions.

How will you make an impact on this role?

Reporting to the Director, CEG Merger & Acquisitions, the Manager, CEG Merger & Acquisitions role is primarily responsible for:

• Partnering and working with the appropriate CEG team with delegates from various human resources related functions: compensation, benefits, employment law (internal and external) colleague labor relations, global mobility, payroll, and Colleague Strategic Partners from the business and appropriate geographies across the deal and integration/separation lifecycle.

• Supporting HR due diligence and integration/separation activities on multiple concurrent acquisitions, divestitures and other transactions

• Assist in developing project plans and tracking progress against plans and communicating updates to the CEG project team members

• Identifying, tracking and monitoring risks and issues for all project

• Representing CEG workstream on cross-functional deal teams and surfacing people-related issues and business impacts.

• Participate in external HR M&A conferences and round table discussions and share learnings/best practices with the HR M&A team.

• Supporting in draft key colleague communications throughout deal life cycle including memos, FAQ, trainings and interacting with acquired colleagues 1:1

Minimum Qualifications

• 4 years of proven experience in Corporate HR or HR consulting

• Strong experience in project management (including cross-functional teams and external advisors) 

• Strong relationship skills and comfortable working in an environment with tight deadlines and imperfect information and ambiguity 

• Exemplary communication skills – strong storyteller with ability to adapt messaging based on the audience and ability to break down complex topics into understandable, concise messages.  

• Strong Excel skills (PivotTables, dashboards, VLookups, etc.) 

• Proficient in PowerPoint and Word 

• Ability to work both independently and as a team player 

• Bachelor’s degree

Preferred Qualification

• Experience with Human Capital Management systems (Workday, Oracle, etc.)

Qualifications

Salary Range: $90,000.00 to $165,000.00 annually bonus benefits

The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we’ll consider your location, experience, and other job-related factors.

We back you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones' physical, financial, and mental health, as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally:

• Competitive base salaries

• Bonus incentives

• 6% Company Match on retirement savings plan

• Free financial coaching and financial well-being support

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits

• Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need

• 20 weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy

• Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location)

• Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program

• Career development and training opportunities

For a full list of Team Amex benefits, visit our Colleague Benefits Site .

American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law. American Express will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records, in accordance with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including, but not limited to, the California Fair Chance Act, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. For positions covered by federal and/or state banking regulations, American Express will comply with such regulations as it relates to the consideration of applicants with criminal convictions.

We back our colleagues with the support they need to thrive, professionally and personally. That's why we have Amex Flex, our enterprise working model that provides greater flexibility to colleagues while ensuring we preserve the important aspects of our unique in-person culture. Depending on role and business needs, colleagues will either work onsite, in a hybrid model (combination of in-office and virtual days) or fully virtually.

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Job: Human Resources

Primary Location: US-New York-New York

Other Locations: United States

Schedule Full-time

Req ID: 25008629