Manager

Illinois  ‐ Onsite
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Description

This position is located in a department that helps clients efficiently and effectively combine two companies into one entity in terms of people and culture, functional area business processes and systems/technology.

We are looking for a Manager to lead workstreams of major corporate merger integration projects.

Essential duties will vary and include:
  • Develop plans that support the business objectives, timelines, budgets, resources pool, milestones, deliverables and end-of-integration success criteria
  • Lead the Integration Management Office (IMO)
  • Lead integration teams to realize synergies and/or execute functional area transitions
  • Drive day-to-day execution of the overall integration process, including coaching cross-functional teams and leading weekly integration team meetings to ensure activity plans remain relevant and are being executed
  • Implement the integration scorecard to track progress toward goals
  • Prepare and conduct project status reports to update executive management regularly on progress, risks and issues
  • Manages project execution to achieve project deliverables within the budget
  • Provides direction, oversight and coaching to junior consultants
  • Reviews deliverables prepared by other project team members to assure quality
SKILLS:

Skill sets required include:
  • Consulting skills: ability to function in an ambiguous, unstructured, fast moving and rapidly changing environment, make quick sense of it and add value beyond just a task oriented doer or project manager; strong oral and written communication skills; superior problem solving and analytical skills.
  • Project Management Technical Skills: strong understanding of critical PM concepts such as activity plans, milestones, task dependencies, risk and issue tracking, status reporting.
8 - 12 years' experience, including the following:
  • Previous experience with major mergers & acquisitions
  • Expertise in Sales functional area with demonstrated results in revenue enhancement: eg sales force effectiveness, territory alignment, incentives, customer/channel management, product portfolio optimization, promotions
  • Previous experience in Corporate Development or management consulting
  • Proven track record in Program/Project Management
Education:
  • BS/BA Required, MBA strongly preferred.
Start date
n.a
From
Synectics
Published at
23.11.2013
Project ID:
631818
Contract type
Freelance
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