Project Manager - Merger Integrations

At Gallagher Benefit Services, you’re a trusted partner to organizations navigating some of their most important people decisions. We help clients build better workplaces, where people feel supported, empowered, and inspired to thrive. Whether it’s shaping benefit strategies, designing wellbeing programs, or advising on workforce challenges, the work you do here creates meaningful change for businesses and the people who power them. We’re a community of bold explorers, trusted experts, and compassionate partners; working side by side to solve problems, and shape the future of work. Here, curiosity is encouraged, collaboration is second nature, and your ideas have room to grow. If you’re looking for a place where your contribution matters and where you can help build a better world of work; think of Gallagher.

Our Operations team is expanding and seeking a Project Manager - Merger Integrations who will be responsible for evaluating M&A pipeline and end-to-end project management of merger and acquisition integrations within Gallagher Benefit Services (GBS). The role provides strategic and hands-on leadership across complex, cross-functional integration efforts, ensuring alignment and delivery against business and integration objectives.

This position reports to the Integration Program Leader. Success in this role requires building strong relationships with divisional and functional leaders across Gallagher Benefit Services, including IT, HR, Finance, and other key areas .

This is a hybrid role with flexible work encouraged, based out of Gallagher’s global headquarters in Rolling Meadows, IL , ideally 2-3 days per week. 

Strategic stakeholder management

• Act as the primary liaison between GBS leadership, integration workstreams, and functional teams
• Facilitate cross-functional and executive-level meetings, ensuring alignment and clear outcomes
• Synthesize complex information into concise, executive-ready status updates and recommendations
• Support leadership and workstream leads with analytics and data-driven insights to enable informed decision-making

Lead project management

• Develop and execute comprehensive project plans, timelines, milestones, and governance structures
• Oversee workstreams and manage interdependencies across integration milestones
• Maintain and govern RAIDD (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies, Decisions) logs and key project documentation
• Monitor performance against cost, quality, timeliness, and stakeholder expectations

Risk, issue, and change management

• Proactively identify risks and execution challenges across M&A integrations
• Define and drive effective mitigation strategies in collaboration with senior stakeholders
• Collaborate with other integration workstreams to deliver a seamless experience for new merger partners and GBS leadership across branch, regional, and divisional levels

Required:

• Bachelor's degree and 3 years business operations and/or project management experience required.
• Strong business acumen.
• Adept with technology including Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.

Preferred:

• Experience from a strategy consulting environment driving client impact with strong problem-solving, communications, and project management skills
• Proficiency with analytics, visualization, and dashboarding tools
• Self-motivated problem solver comfortable functioning in an ambiguous and complex environment

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We offer a competitive and comprehensive compensation package. The base salary range represents the anticipated low end and high end of the range for this position. The actual compensation will be influenced by a wide range of factors including, but not limited to previous experience, education, pay market/geography, complexity or scope, specialized skill set, lines of business/practice area, supply/demand, and scheduled hours. On top of a competitive salary, great teams and exciting career opportunities, we also offer a wide range of benefits.

Below are the minimum core benefits you’ll get, depending on your job level these benefits may improve:

• Medical/dental/vision plans, which start from day one!
• Life and accident insurance
• 401(K) and Roth options
• Tax-advantaged accounts (HSA, FSA)
• Educational expense reimbursement
• Paid parental leave

Other benefits include:

• Digital mental health services (Talkspace)
• Flexible work hours (availability varies by office and job function)
• Training programs
• Gallagher Thrive program – elevating your health through challenges, workshops and digital fitness programs for your overall wellbeing
• Charitable matching gift program
• And more...

**The benefits summary above applies to fulltime positions. If you are not applying for a fulltime position, details about benefits will be provided during the selection process.

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Inclusion and diversity (I&D) is a core part of our business, and it’s embedded into the fabric of our organization. For more than 95 years, Gallagher has led with a commitment to sustainability and to support the communities where we live and work.

Gallagher embraces our employees’ diverse identities, experiences and talents, allowing us to better serve our clients and communities. We see inclusion as a conscious commitment and diversity as a vital strength. By embracing diversity in all its forms, we live out The Gallagher Way to its fullest.

Gallagher believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity and prohibits any form of discrimination by its managers, employees, vendors or customers based on race, color, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy status), sexual orientation, gender identity (which includes transgender and other gender non-conforming individuals), gender expression, hair expression, marital status, parental status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, genetic information, veteran or military status, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected (herein referred to as “protected characteristics”) by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

Equal employment opportunity will be extended in all aspects of the employer-employee relationship, including, but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, transfer, demotion, compensation, benefits, layoff, and termination. In addition, Gallagher will make reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified person with a disability, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business.