[Hiring] Interim Post-Merger Integration Director @VDS Consulting Group

Role Description

The mandate:

• Two or more manufacturing businesses just became one on paper.
• Your job is to make that true in practice — operations, systems, people, and culture — starting on day one and moving fastest during the first hundred days, when the window for change is widest and the risk of losing customers and key employees is highest.
• You will work across every function and hold authority delegated from the CEO and the sponsor.

What you'll own:

• The integration plan: workstreams, owners, milestones, dependencies, and synergy targets.
• Integration management office setup and cadence.
• Synergy capture and tracking, with financial validation against the deal model.
• Operations integration — footprint, capacity allocation, product transfers, procurement consolidation.
• Systems and data integration in coordination with IT leadership.
• Organizational design, role clarity, and retention of key people.
• Cultural integration, which is where most of these programs actually fail.
• Customer and supplier communication and continuity.
• Day-one readiness and the first 100 days.
• Executive, board, and sponsor reporting.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in operations, general management, or integration leadership.
• Multiple completed post-merger integrations in manufacturing or industrial businesses, led rather than supported.
• Demonstrated synergy capture against a deal model.
• Cross-functional authority and the ability to use it without alienating the team you inherited.
• Strong program management discipline under real time pressure.
• Genuine skill with the human side — retention, communication, and culture.

Requirements

• Strong plus: roll-up or platform-and-add-on experience; carve-out integration; PE sponsor reporting; experience linking diligence findings to the integration plan; familiarity with 360º Client Alignment®.