M&A Integration Lead — Drive Post-Deal Operations

Net at Work; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and Welfare (Medical, Dental, &

Life and AD&D Insurance

401k with company match

Job summary

Net at Work is seeking a Manager, M&A Integration to lead the operational integration of acquired businesses from close through stabilization. This role coordinates across Finance, IT, HR, Sales, Legal, and Marketing to embed acquisitions into Net at Work's model, standards, and culture.

The ideal candidate thrives in fast-paced, high-growth environments, with 5–8+ years of cross-functional PMO or M&A experience, excellent organizational and communication skills, and a proven ability to

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Operations, Project Management, Information Systems, or a related discipline.
• 5–8+ years leading complex cross-functional initiatives, integration programs, PMO, consulting, business transformation, or M&A integration.
• Experience managing multiple projects with competing priorities and executive stakeholders.
• Strong analytical, organizational, facilitation, and communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to influence without direct authority and build credibility across all levels of an organization.
• Technology services, managed services, consulting, SaaS, or private equity-backed experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Partner with executive sponsors to establish integration priorities, timelines, and success criteria.
• Develop comprehensive integration roadmaps, work plans, milestone schedules, risk registers, issue logs, dependency trackers, and executive status reports.
• Support integration planning during due diligence by identifying operational requirements and potential risks before close.
• Manage relationships with acquired leadership teams and sellers throughout the integration lifecycle, serving as the primary operational point of contact.
• Build strong partnerships across the organization and foster a collaborative, solutions-oriented integration culture.
• Lead operational integration activities from the completion of initial customer onboarding through long-term operational stabilization for multiple acquisitions simultaneously.
• Coordinate cross-functional workstreams across Financial Operations, IT, Infrastructure, People & Learning, Operations, Customer Success, Sales Operations, Marketing, Procurement, and Legal.
• Coordinate organizational transitions, policy alignment, and change management activities.
• Coordinate billing conversions, ERP transitions, CRM alignment, reporting, and operational process standardization.
• Coordinate technology migrations including user access, infrastructure, security, collaboration tools, and business applications.
• Partner with Finance on purchase agreement obligations including earnouts, APA holdbacks, Due To/Due From reconciliations, and financial integration activities.
• Identify operational, financial, technology, customer, and organizational risks and recommend mitigation strategies.
• Drive accountability by facilitating recurring integration meetings and ensuring action items are completed on time.
• Prepare executive dashboards and regularly communicate integration progress, accomplishments, risks, and decisions requiring leadership support.
• Document lessons learned following each acquisition and continuously improve integration playbooks, governance models, templates, and best practices.
• Ensure ownership is successfully transitioned to business leaders only after integration objectives have been achieved.

Skills

Analytical skills

Organizational skills

Communication skills

Influence without authority

Cross-functional leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business/Operations/PM/IS

Job description

Net at Work is seeking a Manager, M&A Integration to lead the operational integration of acquired businesses from close through stabilization. This role coordinates across Finance, IT, HR, Sales, Legal, and Marketing to embed acquisitions into Net at Work's model, standards, and culture.

The ideal candidate thrives in fast-paced, high-growth environments, with 5–8+ years of cross-functional PMO or M&A experience, excellent organizational and communication skills, and a proven ability to