Interim Post-Merger Integration Director

VDS Consulting Group; West Palm Beach (FL); On-site; USD 166,000 - 277,000; Full time

Job summary

VDS Consulting Group seeks an experienced integration leader to drive a multi‑business post‑merger integration. You will own the plan across operations, systems, people, and culture, coordinating with the CEO and sponsor to move fastest in the first 100 days.

You will oversee integration management, synergy validation, and cross‑functional execution across manufacturing environments, ensuring continuity for customers and suppliers while reporting to executives.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in operations, general management, or integration leadership.
• Multiple completed post-merger integrations in manufacturing or industrial businesses, led rather than supported.
• Demonstrated synergy capture against a deal model.
• Cross-functional authority and the ability to use it without alienating the team you inherited.
• Strong program management discipline under real time pressure.
• Genuine skill with the human side — retention, communication, and culture.

Responsibilities

• Develop the end-to-end integration plan with workstreams, owners, milestones, dependencies and synergy targets.
• Lead the Integration management office setup and cadence.
• Capture and track synergies with financial validation against the deal model.
• Oversee operations integration — footprint, capacity allocation, product transfers, procurement consolidation.
• Coordinate systems and data integration with IT leadership.
• Lead organizational design, role clarity, and retention of key people.
• Drive cultural integration and retention of critical talent amid change.
• Establish clear customer and supplier communication and continuity.
• Ensure day-one readiness and manage the first 100 days transition.
• Provide executive, board, and sponsor reporting on progress.

Skills

Post-merger integrations

Operations leadership

Synergy capture

Cross-functional authority

Program management

People & culture

Job description

Contract | 6–12 months | Day rate + expenses | Travel M–F, CONUS

The mandate

Two or more manufacturing businesses just became one on paper. Your job is to make that true in practice — operations, systems, people, and culture — starting on day one and moving fastest during the first hundred days, when the window for change is widest and the risk of losing customers and key employees is highest.

You will work across every function and hold authority delegated from the CEO and the sponsor.

What you'll own

• The integration plan: workstreams, owners, milestones, dependencies, and synergy targets
• Integration management office setup and cadence
• Synergy capture and tracking, with financial validation against the deal model
• Operations integration — footprint, capacity allocation, product transfers, procurement consolidation
• Systems and data integration in coordination with IT leadership
• Organizational design, role clarity, and retention of key people
• Cultural integration, which is where most of these programs actually fail
• Customer and supplier communication and continuity
• Day‑one readiness and the first 100 days
• Executive, board, and sponsor reporting

What you bring

• 12+ years in operations, general management, or integration leadership
• Multiple completed post‑merger integrations in manufacturing or industrial businesses, led rather than supported
• Demonstrated synergy capture against a deal model
• Cross‑functional authority and the ability to use it without alienating the team you inherited
• Strong program management discipline under real time pressure
• Genuine skill with the human side — retention, communication, and culture

Strong plus: roll‑up or platform-and‑add‑on experience; carve‑out integration; PE sponsor reporting; experience linking diligence findings to the integration plan; familiarity with 360º Client Alignment®.