Director - Integration

JOB PURPOSE:

Lead the end-to-end integration of acquired entities, ensuring seamless alignment of operations, systems, cultures, and strategies to deliver maximum value and achieve the envisioned future state of the combined organization.

Drive cross-functional coordination, optimise resources, ensure compliance, and foster stakeholder collaboration to successfully execute the integration process while minimizing disruptions and realizing strategic and financial synergies.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

Strategic Contribution:

• Develop a clear integration strategy aligned with the overall corporate strategy, ensuring the acquired entity supports long-term business goals and maximizes value creation.
• Under guidance of EGA functional leadership, facilitate the design of the integrated future state of the acquired business, including organizational structure, operational model, and market positioning, while addressing synergies and strategic fit.
• Collaborate with senior leadership, board members, and key stakeholders to align integration goals with corporate priorities and secure buy-in across both entities.
• Identify and mitigate strategic, operational, and cultural risks associated with the integration, ensuring a smooth transition and minimal disruption.
• Identify best practice in the new entity for considering and implementing across EGA.

Policies & Procedures

• Work with the relevant teams to assess policy differences and seek to develop consensus on the appropriate level of alignment of corporate policies, codes of conduct, and governance practices across the combined entity to ensure consistency and compliance.
• Work with the relevant teams to ensure areas of alignment are changed in an appropriate timeframe
• Define clear decision-making processes to streamline integration activities and resolve conflicts efficiently via escalation to leadership and board level where required.

Budget:

• Define and manage an integration budget, covering costs related to personnel, technology, process redesign, and external consultants.
• Monitor and control integration-related expenditures, ensuring alignment with approved budgets and reporting variances to leadership.
• Prioritize resource allocation across functional areas to balance immediate integration needs with long-term business objectives.

Integration:

• Lead the development of a detailed integration plan, including timelines, milestones, and resource requirements, tailored to the specific M&A transaction
• Act as the central point of contact for all integration activities, ensuring alignment and collaboration across functional areas.
• Develop a tailored integration plan, including the integrated future state of the acquired business, covering functional areas such as Operations, Finance, HR, IT, Marketing, Legal, Comms, ESG, etc., as well as looking at areas such as corporate governance, reporting, etc.
• Collaborate with business leaders and stakeholders across EGA, as well as the target businesses, to align common goals, expectations and execution timeline.
• Facilitate regular project reviews, steering committees and communication plans to ensure stakeholder engagement and issue resolution; prepare and present regular reports and status updates to senior management, board and executive committees.
• Together with internal stakeholders, identify integration risks, issues and intra-dependencies; monitor these and develop mitigation strategies; provide regular updates.
• Support due diligence and pre-merger planning activities as needed

Change Management

• Define measurable KPIs for integration success, including financial (e.g., cost synergies, revenue growth), operational (e.g., process efficiency, system integration completion), and cultural (e.g., employee retention, engagement) metrics.
• Drive change management initiatives to support employees and stakeholders through the integration process, addressing resistance and fostering buy-in
• Oversee the execution of the future state vision, ensuring the acquired entity is fully integrated into the parent company’s operations, culture, and strategy.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive reporting mechanisms, including progress reports, financial updates, and KPI dashboards, for stakeholders at all levels.

Post Integration:

• Work with Asset Manager to define when integration scope should end to ensure clear responsibilities
• Manage any handover topics with the company board, Head of BU and Asset Manager
• Assess the success of the integration against predefined objectives and KPIs, identifying areas for further optimization
• Monitor and pursue ongoing opportunities for cost savings, revenue growth, and operational efficiencies post-integration.
• Document and share best practices from the integration process to improve future M&A activities

People Management

• Manage the diverse Integration Team which will include members (with various percentages of their time allocated) across functional areas (Operations, Finance, HR, IT, Marketing, Legal, Communications, and ESG) to execute the integration plan.
• This involves forming and leading an Integration Management Office (IMO) or similar cross-functional team, assigning clear roles and responsibilities, and ensuring alignment on objectives.
• The role requires motivating team members, resolving conflicts, and fostering collaboration between employees from the acquiring and acquired entities to overcome cultural differences and achieve a unified operating model.

AUTHORITY/ DECISION MAKING:

• Work is subject only to guidance and broad direction of strategic direction and objectives.
• The job holder exercises financial authority as per the level established in the Delegation of Authority.

QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS:

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree is a must; MBA or advanced degree preferred
• PMP, PgMP or equivalent project management certification strongly preferred

Minimum Experience:

• 12 - 15 years of progressive experience in project management
• Proven track record of managing post-merger integration projects
• Good understanding of M&A processes, timelines and terminology, as well as financial concepts

Skills:

• Strategic Planning and Execution
• Project Management
• Cross-Functional Leadership
• Change Management
• Financial Acumen
• Stakeholder Management and Communication
• Risk Management and Compliance
• Analytical and Problem-Solving Skills
• Cultural Sensitivity and Emotional Intelligence
• Influencing and negotiation skills