VP, Integration Leader

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About the role

VP, Integration Leader

The M&A Integration Leader will be the pivotal force responsible for planning, leading, and managing the end-to-end integration of Reworld's strategic acquisitions. This role is critical to achieving the desired business value and strategic objectives expected from each deal

Key Responsibilities & Areas of Focus

You will lead the integration function, ensuring seamless transition and value capture across all acquired entities.

1. Deal Value Realization & Integration Leadership

• Define and Champion Strategy: Establish the overall integration strategy (starting pre-close) to ensure clear alignment with strategic goals and drive deal value realization.
• Drive Detailed Planning: Oversee and execute detailed integration planning, including defining clear milestones, timelines, resource allocation, and required costs to achieve deal-specific value and synergies.
• End-to-End Execution: Manage the overall integration execution, from Day 1 onboarding through the completion of all go-to-market and functional integration efforts.
• Risk & Issue Management: Proactively identify, assess, and manage integration risks. Drive effective resolution of complex, cross-functional integration issues and escalations.
• Establish Success Metrics: Define and establish success metrics and scorecards (in partnership with People/Finance/Deal team) to rigorously track and report on integration progress and value realization performance.

2. Strategic Collaboration & Partnership

• Deal Team Core Member: Serve as a core member of the deal team, providing strategic M&A integration support, driving critical decisions, and contributing to business case development and due diligence.
• Pre-Deal Engagement: Collaborate closely with the Business Development team throughout the M&A lifecycle, participating in target evaluation, due diligence, and negotiation of deal terms.
• Trusted Advisor: Act as a partner and trusted advisor to the regions and functional teams, applying thought leadership, best practices, integration experience and deep knowledge of Reworld's operations.
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Lead a complex, cross-functional project team consisting of operational experts, regional/functional representatives, and newly acquired employees.

3. M&A Capability & Performance Excellence

• Continuous Improvement: Build out and continuously improve Reworld's M&A integration capabilities by identifying and developing process improvements, best practices, tools, and templates.
• Institutionalize Learning: Conduct and institutionalize post-mortem processes to capture end-to-end deal learnings. Prepare comprehensive retrospectives for key acquisitions.
• Performance Reporting: Define success metrics pre-deal, then measure and report acquisition performance against those metrics on a quarterly basis to the Executive Leadership Team and Board of Directors.
• Cultural Stewardship: Stay abreast of Reworld's priorities and exemplify the company culture to effectively support acquired companies through integration.
• Growth Initiatives: Manage strategic and growth initiatives on an as-needed basis outside of M&A integration.

Qualifications

Basic Requirements

• Experience: 12+ years of M&A integration, consulting, or operational experience, with at least 7 years of direct M&A integration experience leading the integration function.
• Track Record: Proven success integrating people, processes, and systems across multiple acquisitions, particularly within organizations completing several deals per year.
• Strategic Blend: Must be able to seamlessly blend strategic advisory with strong process and rigorous analytical skills.
• Influence & Leadership: Ability to be an influential business partner who can lead through influence and secure support from cross-functional executives for effective and efficient integration. Must drive accountability across the integration team.
• Project Management: Exceptional project management, organizational, and attention-to-detail skills necessary for driving complex, global initiatives.
• Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including superior presentation and executive reporting skills to C-level and Board audiences.
• Travel: Willingness to travel (as needed) to support deal activities and integration.

Preferred Qualifications

• An MBA or equivalent experience is preferred.
• Proficiency in MS Office; experience with project management tools like Smartsheet is a plus.

All Reworld positions require a candidate's ability to perform the duties and responsibilities of the role while upholding Reworld's Values, including (but not limited to) contributing to a safe and inclusive workplace, delivering results through trust, and building breakthrough capabilities.

Please note that Level, Title and/or Salary may be adjusted based on the applicant's experience or skills.

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Reworld is an Equal Opportunity Employer, has developed an Affirmative Action Program (AAP), and will not discriminate against any qualified applicants because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability (including perceived disability, physical, mental, and/or intellectual disabilities), veteran status, liability for service in the Armed Forces of the United States, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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