IT Senior Manager (Mergers & Acquisitions)

Integra LifeSciences; Kingston (NJ); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Integra LifeSciences is seeking a Senior Manager of IT Mergers & Acquisitions to lead cross-functional teams in due diligence and post-merger integration, aligning IT with corporate development goals. The role focuses on IT architecture, cybersecurity, and risk assessment across applications, infrastructure, and data.

The ideal candidate blends business acumen with strong project management, executive presentation skills, and experience in digital transformation within Life Sciences, with travel

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in a Technical or Business field; Master’s degree desirable.
• Certifications: Process Excellence / Six Sigma / Lean / Organizational Change Management / PMP / ITIL / Business Analyst Training / Green or Black Belt.
• 10+ years in Life Sciences, Pharma, MedTech, Biotech.
• 5+ years leading process improvement initiatives.
• 5+ years supporting digital strategy and transformation.
• Minimum 3 years’ experience working in, or supporting business development, integrations, and post integration processes
• Familiarity integrating QMS, PLM, and CRM.
• Preferred: Executive presentation skills, experience in MedTech quality and regulatory environment.

Responsibilities

• Leads IT due diligence workstreams for mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures.
• Orchestrates transition from due diligence to post-merger integration, unifying IT infrastructure, networks, emails, applications, and data without disrupting validated environments.
• Integration Planning & TSA Management: Day 1 readiness plan and End State roadmap; detailed workplans for AD migrations, ERP consolidations, and cloud integrations; manage TSAs.
• Regulatory & Compliance: Ensure IT integration activities comply with GxP, HIPAA/GDPR, and 21 CFR Part 11; re-validation of systems.

Skills

Executive presentation skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Business acumen

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Technical or Business field

Master’s degree desirable

Tools

Oracle ERP

Job description

Changing lives. Building Careers. Joining us is a chance to do important work that creates change and shapes the future of healthcare. Thinking differently is what we do best. To us, change equals opportunity. Every day, our colleagues are challenging what’s possible and making headway to innovate new treatment pathways to advance patient outcomes and set new standards of care.

Job Description Integra Life Sciences is looking for a Senior Manager of IT Mergers & Acquisitions supporting our global corporate development function with a proven track record of driving alignment across a matrixed organization to desired business outcomes and quantitative KPI improvements related to Pre-Deal Technology Due Diligence. This role would lead a cross-functional teams through process centered discussions that generate integrated technology solutions across the various areas of Integra: Applications, Infrastructure, Project, and Financial planning. This role will be responsible for shaping and designing an IT M&A playbook that organizes a sequential process for integrating new companies over the desired time horizon. By strategically partnering with Corporate Development, Finance, and Legal this role will evaluate IT architecture, cybersecurity, modernization gaps, and IT contracts to quantify synergy opportunities and acquisition risks. Initially there will be a deep focus on ensuring the process and systems critical to day 1 of the integrations have been considered into the deal models and access from a risk and IT compliance perspective. This role exists to help translate business requirements into business cases and vetted investments in technology over multiple years while ensuring mandatory companywide priorities are met. The ideal candidate for this role exhibits strong business acumen, executive presentation skills, understanding of corporate finance, and how to write business cases for digital transformation projects. The candidate should exhibit a history of strong project management and stakeholder management. Additionally, this role may require travel (up to 20%).

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Leads the technical workstreams for mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures focused on IT due diligence.
• Orchestrates the transition from due diligence to post-merger integration, ensuring that IT infrastructure, networks, emails, applications, and data from both entities are unified without disrupting validated environments or clinical operations.
• Integration Planning & TSA Management: Develop the "Day 1" readiness plan and long-term "End State" roadmap. Create detailed workplans for Active Directory migrations, ERP consolidations (e.g., Oracle), and cloud integrations. Define and manage Transitional Service Agreements (TSAs) to ensure business continuity while the acquired entity is being decoupled from its parent company.
• Regulatory & Compliance: Ensure all IT integration activities comply with GxP (Good Practice), HIPAA/GDPR, and 21 CFR Part 11. Oversee the re-validation of systems in the newly merged environment.

DESIRED MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Education: Bachelor’s Degree in a Technical or Business field, master’s degree desirable
• Preferred Certifications: Process Excellence / Six Sigma / Lean / Organizational Change Management / PMP / ITIL / Business Analyst Training / Green or Black Belt
• Experience: Minimum 10 years’ experience in the Life Sciences, Pharma, MedTech, or Biotech industries
• 5+ years of experience leading process improvement initiatives.
• 5+ years of experience working in, or supporting digital strategy and transformation
• Minimum 3 years’ experience working in, or supporting business development, integrations, and post integration processes
• Familiarity integrating Quality Management Systems (QMS), Product Lifecycle Management Systems (PLM), and Customer Relationship Management system (CRM)
• Preferred: Executive presentation skills, experience a MedTech quality and regulatory environment.

Additional details

We are looking for candidates to join our hybrid team based in Princeton, NJ. To ensure you can comfortably make your in-office days, all applicants must reside within a 2-hour commute of the Princeton area.

Salary Pay Range

Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Individual pay is determined by several factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. In addition to base pay, employees may be eligible for bonus, commission, equity or other variable compensation. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Additional Description for Pay Transparency: Subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees and/or eligible dependents are eligible to participate in the following Company sponsored employee benefit programs: medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, business accident insurance, and group legal insurance, and savings plan (401(k)). Subject to the terms of their respective policies and date of hire, Employees are eligible for the following Total Rewards | Integra LifeSciences Integra LifeSciences is an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees regardless of race, marital status, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, or protected veteran status. This site is governed solely by applicable U.S. laws and governmental regulations. If you'd like more information on your rights under the law, please see the following notices: EEO Is the Law | EOE including Disability/Protected Veterans Integra LifeSciences is committed to provide qualified applicants and employees who are disabled veterans or individuals with disabilities with needed reasonable accommodations in accordance with the ADA. If you have difficulty using our online system due to a disability and need an accommodation, please email us at [e-mail].

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