Director, Americas Integration & Portfolio Delivery

Grant Thornton; Orlando (FL); Hybrid; USD 188,000 - 313,000; Full time

Job summary

Grant Thornton is seeking a Director, Americas Integration Lead to join the team. This leader oversees integration delivery across the Americas portfolio within the Global IMO, guiding program managers and directly managing high‑impact integrations.

The role partners with acquired-entity leaders and executives to ensure governance, reporting, and execution cadence align with IMO standards while adapting to market needs.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience leading complex, cross-functional programs including significant M&A integrations from pre-close planning through Day 1, stabilization, and transition to business ownership.
• Experience leading, coaching, and developing program managers and integration professionals, and managing internal resources, external advisors, and third-party service providers.
• Ability to directly manage complex or high-risk integrations when required.
• Experience establishing integration governance, managing cross-functional workstreams, and overseeing milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, decisions, and executive reporting.
• Willingness to travel across the Americas as required.

Responsibilities

• Provide oversight and accountability for integration delivery across the Americas portfolio, including current and future markets added through acquisition, from pre-close planning through Day 1, stabilization, and transition to business ownership.
• Lead and develop the program managers responsible for the day-to-day management of individual integrations, ensuring clear ownership, consistent execution, and timely escalation.
• Directly manage selected integrations based on transaction size, complexity, risk, or resourcing needs.
• Review and challenge integration plans, milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, and status reporting across the portfolio.
• Establish expectations for governance, workstream coordination, decision-making, and executive reporting, and ensure program managers apply them consistently.
• Manage priorities, capacity, and cross-program dependencies across concurrent integrations, adjusting assignments and sequencing as needed.
• Coach program managers through complex stakeholder, execution, and escalation issues while holding them accountable for delivery.
• Ensure consistent use of IMO playbooks, program-management tools, RAID logs, templates, and reporting standards across all Americas integrations.
• Lead, coach, and develop the Americas integration team, including program managers, change management, and program support resources.
• Set clear expectations for delivery quality, ownership, escalation, and stakeholder management across the team.
• Assign program managers and other resources to integrations based on transaction complexity, risk, timing, and capacity.
• Review portfolio demand and team capacity, identifying resource gaps and adjusting priorities or external support as needed.
• Build a scalable regional delivery capability through hiring, onboarding, development, performance management, and succession planning.
• Direct third-party advisors and contractors, ensuring their work is integrated with the internal team and aligned with IMO standards.
• Serve as the primary Americas representative within the Global IMO, providing visibility into portfolio status, risks, resource needs, and upcoming integration activity.
• Participate in global governance and operating cadences, escalating material risks, issues, and decisions with clear recommendations.
• Translate Global IMO standards, tools, and playbooks into practical regional execution requirements.
• Provide Americas feedback and lessons learned to improve global integration methods, templates, and reporting.
• Coordinate with global integration, communications, change management, and other shared resources to align support across the Americas portfolio.
• Ensure regional practices remain consistent with Global IMO standards while adapting execution for transaction-specific and market requirements as the Americas portfolio evolves.

Skills

Program management

Cross-functional leadership

M&A integration

Stakeholder management

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Advanced degree (preferred)

Job description

Grant Thornton is seeking a Director, Americas Integration Lead to join the team. This leader oversees integration delivery across the Americas portfolio within the Global IMO, guiding program managers and directly managing high‑impact integrations.

The role partners with acquired-entity leaders and executives to ensure governance, reporting, and execution cadence align with IMO standards while adapting to market needs.