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Janea Schaeffer
Senior Manager, M&A Program Management
Janea Schaeffer is an M&A Senior Manager with 5+ years of experience helping clients navigate program management for largescale M&A transactions—both integrations and separations. She has managed the end-to-end process for multiple $50B+ deals which include PMO stand-up, program strategy, Day 1 command center execution, post-close value tracking, and TSA development and execution. She works cross-industry, but specializes in the Life Sciences and Healthcare industry.
Through this experience she has stood up and managed PMOs with 100+ team members working across 15+ workstreams. In addition to standing up operating mechanisms (reporting, RAIDS, communications) she has defined strategy for planning, interdependency alignment and management, decision management, and risk identification and management.
In addition—she has led a number of Day 1/2 Readiness efforts that included coordination across multiple triage centers, workstreams, and involved daily C-suite reporting.