Director, M&A Project and Program Management

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Director, M&A Project and Program Management

Job Summary

Manages and leads the team responsible for company wide programs. Is responsible for planning standards reviews and setting strategy for company-wide programs/portfolios.

Responsibilities

Project Planning and Execution

• Proven experience in building integration implementation plans from disparate sources of information, aligned to strategy and goals of mergers and acquisitions

• Ability to proactively identify dependencies, communicate and create mitigation plans to ensure successful execution of the integration plan

• Providing active participation & representation within cross-functional Integration workstreams

• Manage transition between program phases and ensure deliverables have met and signed off according to establish standards

• Play an active role to manage risks, issues and mitigation and escalate where necessary

• Share thought leadership to mature and create process efficiencies where needed

Communication and Stakeholder Management

• Provide leadership, coordination, and cross-functional communication to ensure achievement of objectives and timelines

• Communication and reporting within IT functional track, and cross-functionally as required through the Program Channels

• Provide leadership and actively participate on meetings, sending agendas, defining, and communicating meeting objectives, to ensure follow through, follow up and closure of critical action items

• Engagement with the appropriate stakeholders, to maintain alignment on program

• Build relationships by creating trust through partnership and successful execution

• Present to program steering committees making detailed, prioritized recommendations, facilitating discussions, and driving decision making

• Ensure stakeholders understand the impact of changes introduced by the project

Risk & Issue Management

• Prepare and manage the project Risk Management Plan

• Develop and maintain regular risk assessments and risk mitigations plans

• Timely escalation and resolution of complex project-level issues

Resource and Budget Management

• Forecast and track project budget and resource requirements

• Work with the Portfolio Manager to ensure program initiatives are correctly resourced and funded

• Work with the portfolio manager to resolve resource conflicts and budget mismatches

M&A Responsibilities

• Manage interfaces to enable requirement delivery for track with appropriate reviews and sign off

• Support functional communication and change management

• Prepare program level reporting decks and commentary as needed

• Facilitate interactions and communication between the engineering team and our business stakeholders, and vendors

• Cultural awareness and sensitivity in engagements and interactions

• Ability to take on new task as requested

Qualifications

• A Bachelor or Master STEM Degree; Computer Science, Information Technology, or related technical field

• A minimum of 7+ years of overall Program/Project Management with at least 3+ years of proven experience in Mergers and Acquisition Programs, managing multiple high performing multi-function teams required

• Demonstrated experience leading successful large, complex, high-value strategic technology M&A work, executing in an Agile and Hybrid environment required

• Experience using Project Management tools (Confluence, JIRA, Smartsheet etc.) required

• Other Professional qualifications, such as PMP (Project Management Professional), PMI-ACP (Agile Certified) required

• Prior expe