Sr. Director of M&A Integration; IMO

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Sr. Director of M&A Integration (IMO).

Location:

Atlanta, GA

Reports To:

Chief Transformation Officer

The Sr. Director of M&A Integration serves as the central program leader for the Integration Management Office (IMO), responsible for planning, coordinating, and facilitating execution of post-merger integration initiatives across the combined platform. While overseeing all core integration work streams, this role has primary responsibility for systems integration, enterprise application consolidation, data migration, reporting standardization, process harmonization, and technology-enabled operating model execution.

The role serves as a trusted advisor and liaison across work streams, helping surface dependencies, facilitate decisions, and translate agreed priorities into coordinated execution.

This individual will work closely with IT, Finance, HR, shared services, and business leaders to ensure critical platforms, processes, and data environments are integrated effectively while minimizing business disruption. This is a high-visibility, high-accountability role in a PE-backed environment where speed, discipline, and hands-on execution matter equally.

• Coordinate execution of enterprise systems integration initiatives
• Coordinate ERP, financial systems, CRM, HRIS, project management, business intelligence, and other operational platform consolidation efforts from planning through stabilization.
• Develop and coordinate execution of systems integration roadmaps covering application rationalization, platform selection, data migration, testing, cutover planning, user readiness, and post-implementation support.
• Facilitate alignment of master data structures, reporting hierarchies, workflows, security models, interfaces, and data governance standards across legacy organizations.
• Partner with technical teams and external vendors to identify and mitigate risks involving data quality, cybersecurity, infrastructure, system performance, and business continuity.
• Establish key performance indicators to monitor technology integration progress, system adoption, issue resolution, and operational readiness.
• Help ensure systems and process decisions create a scalable foundation for future acquisitions and platform growth.

• Maintain and coordinate the master integration plan, including systems dependencies, workstream coordination, milestone accountability, resource requirements, and escalation protocols.
• Stand up and operate the IMO operating rhythm through weekly status reviews, technical workstream meetings, executive steering updates, and cross-functional dependency reviews.
• Maintain a live integration scorecard with clear status on systems readiness, conversion milestones, risks, decisions, and stabilization metrics for executive and board visibility.
• Identify integration blockers proactively, facilitate resolution, and elevate issues that require executive decisions or cross-functional tradeoffs.
• Coordinate user acceptance testing, change management, training, and adoption activities in partnership with workstream leaders.

• Coordinate integration activities across IT, Finance, HR, Operations, shared services, client delivery, and commercial functions, with systems and process integration serving as the foundation for execution.
• Partner with the CTO on AI adoption rollout and extension of company technology programs to the full combined platform.
• Interface with business-unit EVPs and Presidents to define systems requirements, understand operational dependencies, identify business-continuity risks, and support adoption of standardized platforms and processes.

• Serve as the primary point of contact for integration program status.
• Translate complex technical and operational issues into clear status updates, risk assessments, and decision requests for executive stakeholders.
• Maintain a disciplined integration communications cadence for workstream leaders, frontline managers, and the Senior Leadership Team.

• Support the CFO, CHRO, and CTO in tracking integration-related cost, productivity, cost and revenue synergies enabled by systems consolidation and process standardization.
• Maintain documentation and reporting to support PE sponsor review cycles and board updates.
• Flag risks to synergy and…