Director M&A Integration

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Position Summary

Description

Reporting to the VP of Corporate Development, the Director / Sr. Director of the Integration Management Office (“IMO”) role is designed to lead the activities necessary to guide functions involved with the integration of companies related to a merger or acquisition. The role provides guidance, governance and structure to plan and implement a cross-functional integration program to effectively engage and collaborate with corporate and business teams to achieve deal objectives in a timely fashion.

Roles and responsibilities include:

• Leading key Executives, Management, and functional area teams in designing the integration blueprint to design the future, integrated state of the organization
• Designing integration hypothesis and guiding principles in concert with the acquiring business unit leadership team
• Establishing appropriate governance for the integration, including Steering Committee, IMO, business and functional teams
• Developing a framework for teams to document integration project plans, including both high-level functional roadmaps and detailed, execution-focused integration plans utilizing Smartsheets
• Developing a reporting cadence for regular alignment with functional area teams, including project status, risks, activities, issues and decisions to report and escalate
• Generating other relevant reports, tracking files, or deliverables (e.g. future state organizational structure diagrams, GTM market timelines, etc.) to support overall integration
• Monitoring risks and issues to ensure that they are appropriately resolved and escalated as necessary to the Steering Committee or relevant leadership
• Tracking the integration program’s interdependencies, by providing knowledge and oversight across functions to ensure knowledge sharing, issues resolution and work plan synchronization
• Providing overall coordination of program performance, progress, and quality
• Designing and delivering a reporting framework for Steering Committees and leadership as necessary to provide regular updates on integration progress and achievement

Responsibilities

Integration Strategy & Planning

• Develop integration guiding principles to effectively govern the integration program thru
  • Participating in diligence
  • Integration Plan Development and Management
  • Status Reporting
  • Issue Management
  • Scope Management
  • Deliverable Management
  • Cost Management
  • Risk Mitigation

Execution

• Identify key business issues and mitigation strategies
• Evaluate and validate hypothesis and develop recommendations in the context of the overall integration
• Focus the program on results and key integration priorities based on deal value drivers
• Remove barriers as they are recognized, and escalate issues as required
• Provide visibility of all projects and deliver objective concise information to the Steering Committee or relevant business and/or functional leadership

Execution

• Identify key business issues and mitigation strategies
• Evaluate and validate hypothesis and develop recommendations in the context of the overall integration
• Focus the program on results and key integration priorities based on deal value drivers
• Remove barriers as they are recognized, and escalate issues as required
• Provide visibility of all projects and deliver objective concise information to the Steering Committee or relevant business and/or functional leadership

Qualifications

Formal Education & Certification

• Undergraduate degree required; MBA preferred

Knowledge & Experience

• Minimum 10 years of project management or merger integration / carve-out experience, business transformation, and change management either within a corporate environment or consultancy
• Experience in integration planning and execution related to acquisitions / divestitures required
• Functional working knowledge in several of the following areas is required to readily engage subject matter experts during integration execution
  • Communications
  • Business operations
  • Finance & Accounting operations
  • Commercial operations
  • HR / organizational design
  • Information Technology, including business/ enterprise applications and basic knowledge of IT infrastructure
  • Other back-office functions including Legal, Compliance, Information Security, Tax, Audit and Customer Support
  • Marketing

Personal Attributes

• Ability to lead others without formal authority
• Results oriented
• Able to provide clarity in situations of uncertainty
• Excellent oral and written communications skills
• Initiative and drive
• Critical thinking skills
• Strong business acumen
• Excellent organizational skills, ability to manage multiple elements of complex projects

Additional Requirements

• Occasional evening and weekend work to meet deadlines
• Able to participate in training sessions, presentations, and meetings
• Adaptable to working conditions (e.g., varying to 100% on-line /virtual work environment, or flexibility to travel at least 25% of time as projects require)

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