Senior Director, Integrations and Separations

Banner Health • Phoenix, AZ

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About The Position

This position is responsible for architecting, operationalizing, and leading the enterprise integration and divestiture capability across a portfolio of concurrent acquisitions, joint ventures, and asset separations. This role translates deal strategy into executable operating models, ensures realization of financial and operational value, mitigates stranded costs, and drives disciplined execution from Day 1 through full integration or separation. This position oversees integration program management resources supporting active transactions. The incumbent will establish standardized integration and separation methodologies, and partner cross-functionally with Finance, Human Resources, Information Technology, Legal, Operations, and executive leadership to ensure transactions achieve intended strategic and financial objectives.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Healthcare Administration, Finance, Engineering, or related field.
• Significant experience, typically gained through ten or more years of relevant experience.
• Progressive leadership experience in mergers and acquisitions integration, large-scale transformation, enterprise program management, or healthcare operations.
• Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional initiatives with system-wide impact.
• Proven financial acumen including synergy modeling, cost tracking, and budget oversight.
• Experience overseeing multiple concurrent complex initiatives.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree in Business Administration, Healthcare Administration, or related field.
• Experience within healthcare systems, joint ventures, or regulated industries.
• Experience leading integration management offices or enterprise portfolio functions.
• Additional related education and/or experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Leads the development and continuous improvement of the enterprise Integration & Separation Playbook, including standardized Day 1–Day 100 frameworks, Target Operating Model design standards, governance structures, and execution methodologies to enable scalable transaction execution.
• Oversees a portfolio of concurrent acquisitions, joint ventures, and divestitures, ensuring enterprise visibility into integration progress, cross-deal dependencies, resource prioritization, and risk mitigation while escalating strategic trade-offs to executive leadership.
• Co-owns enterprise value realization by designing detailed synergy initiatives, validating financial assumptions, sequencing quick-win capture, tracking run-rate versus one-time impacts, and proactively identifying and mitigating potential dis-synergies that may erode expected value.
• Partners with Finance to implement disciplined tracking of synergy realization, integration-related expenses, and stranded cost removal strategies associated with acquisitions and divestitures.
• Directs cross-functional integration and separation planning across Finance, Human Resources, Information Technology, Legal, and Operations, ensuring detailed task planning, milestone discipline, and coordinated execution of Day 1 through full integration or separation.
• Guides organization design alignment and workforce transition planning, including retention strategies for critical roles, redundancy planning, and leadership alignment to support successful operating model implementation.
• Partners with Information Technology leadership to assess system overlap, drive IT portfolio rationalization, and oversee technology integration or separation strategies including data disentanglement and system carve-outs.
• Establishes and maintains enterprise integration governance practices including executive steering committee coordination, milestone and KPI reporting, Transition Service Agreement oversight, and enterprise risk monitoring to ensure transparency, timely decision-making, and protection of transaction value.
• Serves as a strategic advisor to executive leadership on transaction execution, operating model implications, and portfolio risk exposure while strengthening enterprise integration capabilities through development of standardized methodologies, lessons learned, and continuous improvement of integration practices.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees