Senior Director, Integration and Strategic Projects

Role Overview

• Create and maintain a standard Group integration playbook for acquisitions and major projects.
• Develop practical templates, checklists, milestone plans, governance models, RACI structures, risk/issue logs, decision logs, and executive reporting formats.
• Build a scalable approach that flexes by deal size, complexity, risk, quality/regulatory needs, and available resources.
• Capture lessons learned and embed improvements into future integrations, projects, and training.
• Participate in diligence to assess integration complexity, resources, risks, business continuity needs, and execution requirements.
• Partner with Group leadership, operating company leaders, and functional SMEs to identify integration implications across Finance, HR, IT, Operations, Supply Chain, Quality, Regulatory, Commercial, Legal, Compliance, Safety, Facilities, and Engineering.
• Define Day 1 readiness, critical path activities, workstreams, sequencing, dependencies, resource needs, and risk areas.
• Support diligence summaries covering integration assumptions, risks, resources, and one-time costs.
• Translate the deal thesis into an executable roadmap that protects continuity, captures value, reduces risk, and preserves customer confidence.
• Partner with operating company leaders to build milestone-based integration plans with clear owners, deliverables, timelines, dependencies, risks, and escalation paths.
• Help select integration and workstream leaders with the right expertise, authority, bandwidth, and execution capability.
• Establish governance, including steering committees, workstream reviews, operating cadence, executive updates, escalation paths, and decision forums.
• Develop Day 1, Day 30, Day 100, 6-month, and 12-month plans as appropriate.
• Support operating companies in running integration programs through disciplined cadence, milestone tracking, risk management, issue escalation, and executive reporting.
• Monitor progress, identify delays or gaps, diagnose root causes, and help define corrective actions.
• Prepare concise, executive-ready updates for Group, Operating Company, and Marmon stakeholders.
• Ensure execution stays tied to the deal thesis, value creation plan, customer commitments, compliance needs, and operating priorities.
• Adapt the integration playbook for facility expansions, moves, footprint changes, equipment moves, system implementations, operational transfers, and transformation programs.
• Help operating companies define project scope, workstreams, milestones, resources, risks, communication needs, and reporting cadence.
• Support critical path planning for customer continuity, production validation, quality/regulatory readiness, safety, equipment commissioning, staffing, inventory, supplier transitions, IT, and controls.
• Provide governance discipline without creating unnecessary bureaucracy.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required; MBA or advanced degree preferred.
• 10+ years of experience in operations, integration, program management, corporate development, consulting, transformation, or general management.
• Experience leading or supporting M&A integration, post-merger integration, transformation, operational integration, or complex cross-functional projects.
• Strong program management skills, including milestone planning, governance, dependency management, issue resolution, reporting, and stakeholder alignment.
• Experience working across Operations, Finance, HR, IT, Commercial, Quality, Regulatory, Legal, Supply Chain, Engineering, Facilities, and Compliance.
• Ability to influence senior leaders and functional experts without direct authority.
• Strong business acumen connecting integration work to value creation, operating performance, customer continuity, risk mitigation, and financial outcomes.
• Ability to simplify complex work into practical tools, clear ownership, actionable milestones, and disciplined follow-up.
• Strong executive communication skills.
• Medical device, life sciences, regulated manufacturing, or multi-site manufacturing experience preferred.

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision
• 401k matching
• and more!