Senior Director, Global M&A Integrations & IMO

Digital Realty; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 225,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Digital Realty is seeking a Senior Director, Head of Integration Management Office and Post M&A Integrations in Dallas, TX, to lead the planning, execution, governance, and value realization of mergers and acquisitions across the global portfolio. This role ensures seamless integration of newly acquired businesses, assets, systems, processes, and teams to achieve acquisition objectives and value delivery.

The successful candidate will mature the IMO, build scalable governance, operating models,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Operations or related field required; MBA preferred.
• 10+ years leading M&A integrations, IMO, corporate development or large-scale programs.
• Proven success leading complex post-acquisition integrations across multiple functions and geographies.
• Experience building and scaling governance frameworks, operating models, and integration methodologies.
• Experience establishing executive governance structures, reporting frameworks and playbooks.
• Strong financial acumen with value capture, synergy realization and metrics.
• Leadership, stakeholder management, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience in a global, matrixed organization.
• Experience in top-tier management consulting environments supporting M&A integrations.
• Experience establishing or transforming an IMO with multiple concurrent integrations.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end integration planning and execution for acquisitions across Digital Realty’s global portfolio.
• Partner with Corporate Development, Acquisitions, executive sponsors, and business leaders to develop integration strategies and post-close execution plans.
• Build, scale, and lead a best-in-class Integration Management Office (IMO), including governance frameworks, operating models, methodologies, reporting standards, and integration playbooks.
• Develop and manage integrated master plans, workstream plans, Day 1 readiness activities, Day 100 execution plans, TSA exits, synergy realization targets, and long-term integration objectives.
• Establish and lead enterprise integration governance frameworks, executive steering committees, milestone reviews, risk management processes, decision logs, issue escalation procedures, and executive reporting standards.
• Drive alignment and accountability across Finance, Operations, Technology, HR, Legal, Product, and other key functional teams while ensuring successful integration execution and minimizing business disruption.
• Recruit, develop, and lead a team of integration professionals capable of supporting multiple simultaneous acquisitions globally.
• Maintain portfolio-level oversight across multiple concurrent integrations while monitoring risks, dependencies, KPIs, value realization, operational readiness, milestone achievement, and business case commitments.
• Coordinate cross-functional communications, culture integration, change management, organizational readiness, and workforce engagement activities throughout the integration lifecycle.
• Drive continuous improvement through post-integration reviews, lessons-learned programs, best-practice implementation, and long-term enhancement of integration capabilities across the enterprise.

Skills

M&A integrations

Integration Office (IMO)

Global execution

Governance frameworks

Day 1 / Day 100 readiness

Executive stakeholder management

Consulting firm experience

IMO transformation

Publicly traded company experience

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Operations

MBA preferred

Job description

Digital Realty is seeking a Senior Director, Head of Integration Management Office and Post M&A Integrations in Dallas, TX, to lead the planning, execution, governance, and value realization of mergers and acquisitions across the global portfolio. This role ensures seamless integration of newly acquired businesses, assets, systems, processes, and teams to achieve acquisition objectives and value delivery.

The successful candidate will mature the IMO, build scalable governance, operating models,