Senior Manager, Integration Management Office (12 month contract)

Starr Underwriting; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 87,000 - 161,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading insurance company seeks a Senior Manager for the Integration Management Office to drive post-merger integration efforts following a recent acquisition. This hybrid role requires extensive experience in M&A integration, strong analytical skills, and the ability to manage cross-functional collaboration to achieve strategic objectives.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in M&A post-merger integration or value creation.
• Experience managing integration workstreams within an IMO.
• Success in dynamic, evolving environments.

Responsibilities

• Manage M&A post-merger integrations for multiple workstreams.
• Analyze operational processes and drive integration.
• Facilitate workshops to resolve post-merger issues and risks.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Analytical skills

Relationship building

Teamwork skills

Education

Undergraduate degree from a leading university

Tools

MS Excel

MS Word

MS PowerPoint

MS Visio

MS Project

Job description

Senior Manager, Integration Management Office, Corporate Strategy – Contract

Definity is the parent company to some of Canada’s most long-standing and innovative insurance brands, including Economical Insurance, Sonnet Insurance, Family Insurance Solutions, and Petline Insurance. Our ambition is to be one of Canada’s leading and most innovative property and casualty insurers. We embrace a culture that is collaborative, ambitious, rewarding, and empowering.

We offer a flexible, hybrid work experience where employees work from the office and virtually depending on their tasks and team. Join us and bring your true self to be part of our journey. It’s better here.

As part of our growth strategy, we are seeking a Senior Manager to join the Integration Management Office within the Corporate Strategy team. Reporting to the Director, Corporate Strategy, the successful candidate will facilitate and guide post-merger integration activities related to our recent acquisition, helping us achieve strategic objectives. The Senior Manager will collaborate with multiple business lines to plan and execute integration activities, leveraging prior post-merger integration experience. This is a 12-month contract role with potential for extension and is an individual contributor position.

Location: Toronto or Waterloo (Hybrid)

What can you expect in this role?

1. Join Definity’s IMO and participate in a transformational integration journey related to our recent acquisition.
2. Manage M&A post-merger integrations for multiple workstreams aligned with various business lines, ensuring effective execution by:

• Learning the business and operations to become the integration expert
• Developing detailed integration plans for timely and successful execution
• Facilitating alignment sessions within workstreams and across functions
• Analyzing operational processes and systems, designing integrated operating states, and driving system and process integration
• Identifying and realizing synergies supporting the strategic rationale of the acquisition
• Supporting change management and cultural integration activities
• Mitigating risks and resolving issues

Facilitate workshops with stakeholders to identify and resolve cross-functional post-merger issues, dependencies, and risks.

Engage with executives and leaders, presenting strategies and updates on the post-merger program.

Gain industry knowledge and build expertise in the financial services sector undergoing significant disruption.

Work in a company with a people-focused culture that values community involvement and wellness.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in M&A post-merger integration or value creation, at a Manager level or higher, gained from a top-tier management consulting firm or financial services company.
• Experience managing post-merger integration workstreams within an IMO.
• Proven success in dynamic, evolving environments.
• Undergraduate degree from a leading university with high achievement.
• Proficiency in MS Excel, Word, PowerPoint; knowledge of MS Visio and MS Project is a plus.
• Insurance industry experience is preferred but not required.

What do you bring to this role?

• Ability to work under pressure, meet deadlines, and handle conflicting priorities.
• Strong relationship-building and teamwork skills.
• Strategic, analytical, and critical thinking skills.
• High ethics, integrity, and responsibility, with sensitivity to confidential information.

This role is focused on post-merger integration activities and does not include pre-deal M&A tasks such as due diligence or valuation. Candidates without specific post-merger integration experience, or only experience in technology, systems, strategy, corporate development, finance, or investment banking, will not be considered.

Salary Range: $87,400 - $161,000