Director, Post-Merger Integration

Overview

Anderson Global is seeking a Director of Post-Merger Integration to own the integration of acquired businesses from signing through full stabilization. This is a senior, high-visibility role responsible for defining integration strategy, making key integration decisions, and delivering integration outcomes across the acquisition portfolio.

You will work closely with the M&A team and Senior Management to establish the integration approach for each transaction, lead cross-functional integration teams spanning Finance, HR, IT, Commercial, and Operations, and act as the primary interface between acquired leadership teams and Anderson Global's executive team during the integration period.

This role owns integration decisions, governance, value creation, and overall outcomes. While Integration Associates and workstream teams support execution and coordination, the Director is ultimately accountable for integration success, synergy realization, business continuity, and stakeholder alignment.

We are specifically looking for someone who has done this before—a practitioner who has led multiple integrations end-to-end inside an acquisitive company and who also brings operating experience from a corporate function or business role. This is not a role for a career advisor; it requires someone who understands what it takes to run and transform a business from the inside.

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Ideal Working Style

• A player-coach who is comfortable setting strategy in the boardroom while also stepping into critical workstreams when required.
  
• Commands credibility with C-level stakeholders on both sides of a transaction and navigates ambiguity, competing agendas, and cultural differences with confidence and diplomacy.
  
• Outcome-driven, measuring success through synergy realization, business continuity, stakeholder adoption, and talent retention.
  
• Makes informed decisions quickly while balancing governance, risk management, and speed of execution.
  
• Comfortable operating in a highly acquisitive, fast-changing environment with multiple parallel integrations.
  

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Requirements

• 10+ years of professional experience, including 5+ years leading post-merger integrations in-house at an acquisitive corporate organization (as an employee of the acquirer, not solely as an external advisor).
  
• Demonstrated track record of owning multiple integrations end-to-end—from pre-close planning through Day 1 execution and stabilization—including cross-border transactions.
  
• Proven experience making integration decisions and being accountable for integration outcomes, not solely serving in a project coordination or advisory capacity.
  
• Prior operating experience in a corporate function or business role (e.g., Operations, Finance, Corporate Development, General Management) beyond M&A or integration itself.
  
• Experience building and leading an Integration Management Office, including executive steering committee governance, risk management, resource planning, and synergy tracking.
  
• Proven ability to influence executive stakeholders, lead senior cross-functional teams without direct authority, and drive accountability across multiple functions.
  
• Experience managing integration budgets, resourcing plans, and external support providers.
  
• Experience working across global teams, geographies, and time zones; internationally fluent in style and, ideally, in language.
  

Preferred Experience

• Earlier-career foundation in M&A advisory, strategy consulting, or transformation (valuable context but must be complemented by significant in-house corporate experience).
  
• Experience in professional services, technology, or other people-centric businesses where cultural integration and talent retention are critical to success.
  
• Familiarity with carve-outs, ERP and systems consolidations, shared services implementations, or operating model redesign.
  
• Experience building, scaling, or professionalizing an integration function within a serial-acquirer environment.