Director, HR Mergers & Acquisitions

We are so glad you are interested in joining Sutter Health!

Organization:

SHSO-Sutter Health System Office-Valley

Position Overview:

Provides strategic direction, expert knowledge, and broad-based human resources leadership and execution of large-scale, complex mergers/acquisitions, transformation, integrations, and reorganizations. Provides cross-functional leadership across human resources and key stakeholders, engaging with strong collaboration to drive alignment, accountability and measurable business and people outcomes. Responsible for overseeing end-to-end due diligence, integration initiatives, and large-scale transformation initiatives - ensuring operational integration and alignment, while focusing on talent, engagement, organization, culture integration, and value-realization strategies and plans. Drives change management initiatives, supports leadership through transitions, and establishes consistent, scalable programs, policies, playbooks, operating mechanisms, and practices to enable long-term organization effectiveness and growth. Leverages external best practices to bring a continuous improvement approach to integrations and reorganizations. Partners with executive leadership to align people strategies with business objectives, build a positive employee experience, ensure compliance with regulations, and minimize disruption during periods of change. This role has significant leadership impact and influences at all levels across the system – including in the divisions, functions, service lines, and acute / ambulatory settings.

Job Description:

EDUCATION:

Equivalent experience will be accepted in lieu of the required degree or diploma

• Bachelor's: Human Resources, Business Administration, Industrial Relations or related field

TYPICAL EXPERIENCE:

• 12 years recent relevant experience, including experience in restructuring, mergers/acquisitions, transformation, organization redesign.
• Experience advising executive leadership and driving enterprise-wide strategies.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams in highly-complex matrixed environment
• Experience managing multiple highly complex, visible projects concurrently.
• Experience collaborating with legal, finance, information services, and operations on enterprise initiatives
• Experience managing large-scale projects and programs

SKILLS/COMPETENCIES:   

• Expertise in talent management, succession / workforce planning, culture integration, and retention strategies.
• Expertise in change management and stakeholder engagement  
• Executive-level strategic thinking, business acumen, and HR leadership.
• Ability to influence senior leaders and drive enterprise initiatives
• Due diligence, integration planning, and restructuring expertise
• Project and program management expertise
• Strong people leadership capabilities – ability to foster highly engaged and high-performing teams
• Exceptional executive communication, judgment, and decision-making skills
• Strong operational rigor and executional excellence
• Ability to analyze data, track KPIs, and demonstrate measurable outcomes

JOB ACCOUNTABILITIES:

Mergers, Acquisitions and Transformation - Strategy & Execution

• Accountable for shaping and executing HR strategy, planning, and execution of large-scale integrations, reorganizations, and merger/acquisitions.
• Provides strategic HR leadership across key system transformation initiatives, ensuring business continuity of operations and a seamless, high-quality employee experience.
• Leverages deep understanding of business and culture to drive effective transformation and/or integration outcomes. Works closely with executive leadership to translate transformation initiatives into clear, actionable human resources goals, programs, structure, and policies – that enable business and people outcomes.
• Leverages deep expertise in transformation, integration, mergers/acquisitions – along with policies and procedures - to provide strategic, trusted counsel on transformation approach and execution.  
• Partners with business leaders, as well as cross-functional partners – including legal and finance - to provide strategic input into the structure of the transaction, workforce-related cost modeling, and synergy identification and realization.

Transformation Initiatives

• Leads and partners to align, develop, and execute human resources strategies for organizational transformation and restructuring initiatives. 
• Leads large-scale strategic system initiatives requiring employee organization