Project Manager

Job Description

Build the Future With Us

Are you passionate about mergers, acquisitions, and integrations and looking to contribute to the mission of a company dedicated to helping its clients feel confident and secure about their future? As a Talent & Culture M&A Project Lead, you will play a key role in delivering Talent & Culture activities related to acquisitions, integrations, and divestitures, ensuring rigorous coordination of deliverables, stakeholders, and governance to support the successful integration of acquired organizations.

This position offers an excellent opportunity to showcase your skills and fully realize your potential within a caring and trustworthy organization. Here, people and their development are at the heart of everything we do, creating an environment that fosters collaboration and innovation.

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What You’ll Accomplish With Us

As a Talent & Culture M&A Project Lead, you will be at the heart of our mission. Your key responsibilities will include:

• Leading Talent & Culture activities for mergers, acquisitions, integrations, and divestitures, while coordinating various T&C workstreams such as talent acquisition, payroll, employee relations, labour relations, change management, T&C systems, DE&I, employee experience, and talent management and development.
• Structuring, planning, and delivering projects by developing integrated plans, schedules, milestones, dependencies, readiness criteria, and commitments required for the successful execution of initiatives.
• Coordinating and engaging internal and external stakeholders, including T&C, IT, Finance, Legal teams, managers, vendors, and business partners, while facilitating governance, planning, and progress meetings.
• Monitoring project progress, managing budgets and resources, and identifying and addressing risks, issues, roadblocks, and critical dependencies by proposing solutions that support the achievement of project objectives.
• Supporting organizational transformation and change management initiatives while contributing to the continuous improvement of project management methods, tools, templates, and practices to enhance the consistency, rigor, and effectiveness of the T&C M&A function.

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What Could Accelerate Your Success in This Role

We are looking for someone who:

• Is recognized for their strong leadership, political acumen, and ability to influence and drive cross-functional initiatives forward in complex environments without direct authority.
• Stands out for their ability to structure information, manage interdependencies, establish priorities, and effectively coordinate multiple stakeholders and workstreams simultaneously.
• Demonstrates agility, adaptability, and strong business acumen to adjust execution in a fast-paced and evolving environment.
• Is known for excellent communication and synthesis skills, and for maintaining transparency regarding progress, risks, issues, and decision-making requirements.
• Has 3 to 5 years of relevant experience in project management or a similar role within complex, cross-functional environments, along with a bachelor’s degree in a related field. Experience in mergers, acquisitions, integrations, or system implementations is considered an asset, as is knowledge of Workday, LeanKit, Planview, and the responsible use of artificial intelligence tools.
• Has an intermediate level of proficiency in both French and English, as the role requires daily communication with business partners and clients across Canada through emails, phone calls, and meetings.

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Why you’ll love working with us

• A work environment where learning and development merge with a collective pursuit of excellence;
• A healthy, safe, fair, and inclusive environment where potential can be freely expressed and developed;
• The opportunity to work in a hybrid environment, supported by flexibility and access to inspiring and innovative workspaces;
• Competitive benefits: Flexible group insurance, competitive pension plan, stock purchase plan, vacation and wellness/personal development days, telemedicine, employee and family assistance program, ergonomic furniture program, performance bonus, discounts on iA products, and much more!

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Apply now and get ahead of your career, where your talent really belongs!

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Still unsure about applying?

At iA, we believe in potential and value diverse experiences. If this role inspires you, go ahead and apply – your place might be with us, and we want to get to know you!

Location(s)Quebec / 1080, Grande Allee West

Other Possible Location(s)Montreal / 1981 McGill College Avenue
Company

iA Financial Group

Posting End Date2026-07-30

Company Overview

iA Financial Group* is the strength of a company with a human side, with its over 8,000 employees. Together, we have earned the trust of our more than four million clients and 25,000 advisors who have chosen us for their insurance, savings, and wealth management.

With over $200 billion in assets and half a billion invested in technological innovation, we’re a key player in the financial services industry in Canada and the United States. The secret to our success? Investing in you, one person at a time. Because, for over 125 years, we have believed that it’s by supporting our employees and surrounding ourselves with the most reputable leaders in the industry, we will continue to innovate.

At iA, we’re invested in you.

* iA Financial group includes the following entities: iA Services financiers, iA assurance auto et habitation, iA Gestion privée de patrimoine, PPI Management, Investia, iA Gestion de placements, Prysm, iA Clarington, Michel Rhéaume et associés, Garanties Nationales, WGI Manufacturing, WGI Service Plan Division, Lubrico, iA Financement auto 

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

At iA Financial Group, we support and celebrate diversity. We strive to provide a workplace that is recognized as inclusive for all, regardless of ethnic origin, nationality, language, religious beliefs, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, family situation, or physical or mental disability.

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