Post-Merger Integration Programs Director

Celestica; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 143,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Celestica in Seattle is seeking a First Director level leader to drive the integration of acquisitions, align processes and culture, and realize ROIC benefits. You will oversee site operations, manage budgets, and partner with executives to set strategic direction.

The role requires deep experience in contract manufacturing, strong leadership, and the ability to navigate complex programs across multiple sites. You will mentor management, resolve issues, and report progress to the senior team.

Qualifications

• Strong general management background.
• 5-8 years of operational management experience in contract manufacturing environment.
• Executive leadership skills in building teams, managing change, and communications.
• Ability to build consensus and motivate a performance based team.
• Ability to effectively communicate with internal and external customers.
• Ability to develop a strong, positive relationship with people at all levels in the organization.
• Proven ability to manage projects and meet the required results.
• Ability to establish business goals and coordinate a wide variety of resources to meet quality and quantity metrics.
• Proven negotiation skills in pulling together divergent viewpoints into common goals.
• Excellent business, analytical, negotiation and problem resolution skills.

Responsibilities

• Implements a set of proven, well-established functional processes while providing direction to the management of the acquired entity to bring about the value expected from the deal or project.
• Participates in due diligence and assessments for potential acquisitions.
• Participates in site visits to assess the general capabilities, value of the operation and the leadership team capabilities.
• Leads work with functional teams to develop thorough integration plans that address the gap between the existing operation and the desired state including the development of a roadmap and the establishment of the team necessary to implement the roadmap.
• Drives the leadership mentoring to the management team of the acquired entity.
• This includes: extensive relationship building; conduit of information and direction on policies and practices; giving direction to the staff on business assumptions relating to the business plan; real time and extensive dialogue to assist the new team's smooth transition to Celestica; point of contact for the new team; offering business and personal support and encouragement to the new management team throughout the acquisition process; and, recommend which members of the management team need further development through training, mentoring, assignments, etc.
• Ensures contractual obligations established during the deal agreements phase are disseminated through site management and provide direction to achieve the established targets.
• This involves selling the validity of these obligations and eventually transitioning the responsibility to the local and regional management.
• Responsible for regular reporting of integration highlights and key initiatives to senior corporate executives and site management as part of the MOR process.
• Develop communication plan with management of new entity that covers all employees, as well as potential occasional involvement in communicating with local government, press and industry organizations.
• Drives project management and decision-making for the integration project.
• Ensures that timetables and priorities for integration are in place and tracking.
• Manages the overall integration budget to ensure spending does not exceed plan.
• Removes roadblocks and any integration issues.
• Defines indicators of success for the project defines end of job criteria and conducts post-integration reviews to ensure the project was successfully integrated.
• Responsible for making significant decisions in an environment of ambiguity where key information is lacking.
• Responsible for creating and defining the value drivers for the acquisition, then identifying gaps between existing and desired operational state to achieve desired value.
• This includes managing the complex political nature of the environment diplomatically.
• Responsible for driving the conditions within the acquired entity to complete the integration.
• Completion means all decision making and results ownership is assumed by local and/or regional management.
• The Site GM, the regional SVP and the VP Integration all agree that the integration activity is completed as part of the hand-off process.
• Areas for assessment include: financials; customers; strategy; capability; operational performance; communications; people / values

Skills

General management

M&A integration

Stakeholder leadership

Change management

Cross-functional leadership

Contract manufacturing

Project management

Negotiation

Strategic planning

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business or Engineering

MBA preferred

Job description

Celestica in Seattle is seeking a First Director level leader to drive the integration of acquisitions, align processes and culture, and realize ROIC benefits. You will oversee site operations, manage budgets, and partner with executives to set strategic direction.

The role requires deep experience in contract manufacturing, strong leadership, and the ability to navigate complex programs across multiple sites. You will mentor management, resolve issues, and report progress to the senior team.