Project Manager

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• Implement M&A integration plans that support the business objectives, timelines, budgets, resources pool, milestones, deliverables and end-of-integration success criteria
• Lead integration initiatives and 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
• Provide direction, oversight and coaching to M&A integrations consultants and contractors
• Manages project execution to achieve project deliverables within the budget
• Reviews deliverables prepared by other project team members to assure quality and provide additional insight and perspective

Expected Areas of Competence (i.e. KSAs)

• Strong oral and written communications skills
• Strong skills in change management, meeting facilitation and conflict resolution
• Strong presentation and client management skills
• The ability to talk confidently about the issues and success factors relating to such projects
• 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. Formal project management training and/or certification preferred.

Education/Experience

• Requires a Bachelor's Degree with at least 5 years professional work experience.
• Minimum of 5 years of cross-functional project management experience
• Must possess an established track record of effective project management