Director, M&A Integration

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Position Overview

Autodesk’s Corporate Development team is a highly-visible and impactful team that has closed over 160 acquisitions and strategic investments in the past decade, making Autodesk one of the top technology acquirers in the world.  What will the next five years look like? Join our team and have a hand in shaping our future.

The Corporate Development Integration Management Office (IMO) is responsible for maximizing impact from our acquisitions. We serve as strategic partners to the sponsoring business leaders, acquired team, and corporate functions by developing and executing against integration strategies that support the value drivers for each transaction.  We partner with over 30 functional leaders across the company to drive financial and operational business outcomes.

Reporting into the IMO, the Director, M&A Integration will lead the successful integration of acquisitions into Autodesk, orchestrating across business teams and corporate functions to create value from our acquisitions and driving measurable synergy targets.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate strategic thought leadership and drive end to end integration strategy, planning, and execution for integration or divestiture projects, including large scale, highly complex transformations

• Leverage superior communications and influencing skills to drive integration efforts and develop effective working relationships with peers, executives and target companies

• Proactively contribute to identification and implementation of M&A integration best practices across our integration practice and teams

• Participate in diligence of target companies in order to lead the evaluation of key issues, assessment of integration challenges and development of post-close plans

• Serve as strategic partner to business leaders, cross functional leads, and acquired team

• Surface strategic opportunities and roadblocks throughout integration

• Drive clarity of strategy, timely decision making, robust and complete planning, and focused execution

• Proactively identify and drive resolution of critical challenges by leveraging strong business acumen and integration expertise

• Drive accountability and closely partner with an extended team of 30+ cross functional integration leads across the company to develop integration strategy and plans for each deal that yields business/deal outcomes aligned with the acquisition rationale

• Effectively communicate project progress, issues, and goal achievement across senior leadership and project team audiences

Minimum Qualifications

• 10+ years leading M&A integrations in an IMO lead capacity, experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects

• Ability to manage high-stress situations calmly and effectively

• Ability to effectively motivate, manage and facilitate virtual and matrixed teams

Influencing and Collaboration

• Able to establish and build close working relationships

• Collaborative, team-oriented planner and decision-maker

• Ability to motivate and drive focus toward program goals, with both structure and flexibility

M&A Experience

• Ample understanding of the acquisition life cycle, integration planning, and familiarity with integration methodologies

​Communication

• Excellent communication, team building and negotiating skills, with the ability to effectively manage and facilitate virtual teams as necessary

• Ability to extract key messages from detail and translate into audience appropriate messages

Business Leadership

• Strong, team-oriented leadership skills

• Able to identify, frame and address issues and make recommendations for resolution

• Self-starter, independent. Solid business acumen

• Ability to influence without authority

• Working knowledge of major corporate functions

Problem Solving

• Strong critical thinking and problem solving skills

• Demonstrates ability to think strategically and tactically, pay strong attention to detail, and work with a high degree of ambiguity and translate into actions

Project and Program Management

• Experience in planning, design, and implementation of complex, cross functional projects

• Effective in influencing and making high quality decisions and taking decisive action

• Ability to work well under deadlines and manage multiple proje