Senior Project Manager – Post-Acquisition Integration
The Senior Project Manager – Post-Acquisition Integration will lead the operational integration of newly acquired manufacturing businesses. This highly visible role owns cross-functional planning, alignment, and execution from Day 1 through stabilization, ensuring processes, systems, and teams are successfully incorporated into the broader organization.
Responsibilities
- Integration Planning & Execution
- Lead cross-functional integration projects for newly acquired sites, translating deal goals into structured implementation plans.
- Assess operational capabilities, supply chain maturity, production workflows, quality systems, and capacity to identify integration priorities and gaps.
- Build and manage integration timelines, milestones, risks, and communication plans. Cross-Functional Project Leadership
- Partner with leaders across Operations, Supply Chain, Production, Quality, Engineering, HR, IT, Finance, and Commercial.
- Facilitate alignment on KPIs, reporting cadence, SOPs, procurement processes, inventory strategy, and production planning activities.
- Drive issue resolution, remove roadblocks, and ensure clarity in roles and expectations during integration. Systems & Process Integration
- Support harmonization of ERP/MRP systems, planning tools, procurement workflows, and other operational systems.
- Standardize SOPs, documentation, safety/quality processes, and operating rhythms across acquired sites.
- Coordinate integration of equipment, product lines, and manufacturing IP into broader operations.
Desired Skills and Experience
- Experience
- Bachelor’s Degree required, with advanced degree or certification (MBA, PMP, etc.) Preferred.
- Background in manufacturing operations, supply chain, production, or engineering.
- Experience leading acquisition integration in a manufacturing organization.
- Strong project management discipline with the ability to lead without direct authority.
- Experience in multi-site environments with differing cultures, systems, and processes. Skills
- Exceptional cross-functional coordination and communication skills.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Highly organized, able to manage multiple simultaneous workstreams.
- Comfortable in fast-paced, evolving environments. Travel
- 25–50% to acquired sites.
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