Acquisition Integration Leader

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POSITION OVERVIEW

dormakaba is seeking an Acquisition Integration Leader to join our team! This position is responsible for ensuring there is a successful integration of newly acquired brands and businesses by creating synergy and facilitating culture and performance optimization.

PRIMARY DUTIES

• Creates, manages, and executes detailed project plan for acquisition integration with clear identification of resources, dependencies, risks, risk mitigation and milestones
• Drives integration project activities with well-defined goals, operating mechanisms, and provides regular updates to stakeholders ensuring the integration is smooth, accurate and time appropriate
• Establishes and develops cross functional business integration team(s) to ensure expert and appropriate representation for all facets of the business resulting in a holistic, comprehensive, well executed integration of acquired companies
• Builds and evolves an integration toolkit and framework

REQUIREMENTS

• Minimum of eight (8) years of experience and /or training or equivalent combination of education and experience in business and culture integration, in a matrixed organization supporting multiple functions. Strong background in integration Finance and Accounting activities (familiarity with Purchase Accounting, Consolidation and Valuation concepts) is required
• Analytical ability to set and track budgets, create basic pro forma analyses, partner with finance and operations to evaluate planning scenarios, and ensure execution of VDI
• Post-merger integration experience
• Experience with business systems and business process management. Ability to recognize needed change and understanding of change complexity.
• Familiarity with international business, especially German-American business
• Leadership experience in different functional areas, and appreciation for multi-functional coordination
• Customer facing experience

CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTORS

• Candidates who embrace dormakaba’s core values will be most successful in our organization: Trust, Customer First, Curiosity, Courage and Performance
• Project management competency to track and progress multiple cross functional initiatives simultaneously with finite resources.
• Emotional intelligence, with persuasive communication to recognize frustration, provide clear direction, de-emotionalize change, provide clear advocacy, and put dormakaba’s best foot forward.
• Ability to build relationships/trust and to influence change.
• Bring clear strategic thinking and excellent problem-solving skills to a range of challenging situations
• Highly motivated individual with proven success meeting commitments in a deadline-driven environment with multiple competing priorities

WE OFFER

• An opportunity to work in global company with a family culture and strong core values (Trust, Customer First, Curiosity, Courage and Performance)
• Competitive pay with great benefits options (Medical, Dental, Vision, Life and Disability insurance, 401k), Paid Time Off and Holiday Pay
• Career fulfillment with growth and development opportunities
• Employee discounts (online discounts for shopping, travel, insurance etc.) and much more!

The Federal Executive Order 14042 on COVID-19 requires all current and new employees of government contractors to comply with one of the following on or before the Federal deadline date:

• Received their final vaccination dose – either their second dose of Pfizer or Moderna, or single dose of Johnson & Johnson OR

• Submitted a medical exemption/accommodation request for approval OR

• Submitted a religious belief exemption/accommodation request for approval.

dormakaba is a federal contractor which means all our team members must comply with this order by the Federal deadline to start and continue employment with us. Our Talent Acquisition team will confirm the Federal deadline date at the time an offer is made to help ensure compliance.