Sr. Manager Mergers and Acquisitions Integration

Vertiv Group • Westerville, OH

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About The Position

Vertiv’s Integration Management Office (IMO) is the central hub for bringing newly acquired businesses into Vertiv and turning deal theses into realized value. The Senior Manager, Integration joins the IMO to lead assigned acquisitions end to end, using the established integration governance, playbook, and toolset. Reporting to the Vice President, Global M&A Integration, this role leads assigned integrations from pre-close planning through Day 1 and the subsequent value-capture period.

The Senior Manager drives cross-functional integration plans, manages synergy and milestone commitments established during diligence, and partners with acquired-company leadership to apply Vertiv’s integration playbook while protecting the talent, customers, and culture that made the acquired business valuable. The role also introduces operational-efficiency practices and visual management, builds alignment across teams without direct reporting authority, and helps strengthen the IMO’s tools and processes through lessons learned.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, finance, or a related field.
• Eight or more years of progressive experience in M&A integration, corporate development, operations, program management, or management consulting, including direct experience leading or co-leading post-merger and post-acquisition integration.
• Demonstrated success delivering complex, cross-functional programs on time and on budget while leading through influence in a matrixed, global organization.
• Strong financial and analytical fluency, including the ability to connect an integration plan to a deal model, synergy targets, and P&L outcomes.
• Working knowledge of lean and continuous-improvement methodologies such as Lean, Six Sigma, Kaizen, or an equivalent operating system.
• Excellent communication and change-leadership skills, with credibility among frontline teams and senior executives.
• Willingness to travel 40 to 60 percent, including internationally.

Nice To Haves

• MBA.
• Experience operating within an established IMO or enterprise PMO across multiple concurrent integrations.
• Experience in critical infrastructure, power, thermal or cooling, electrical equipment, industrial technology, or data center end markets.
• Experience with carve-out, cross-border, or bolt-on integrations at scale across multiple acquisitions.
• Formal operating-system or continuous-improvement practitioner or certification background, such as Lean Six Sigma Black Belt or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Own integration roadmaps for assigned deals, from diligence handoff and Day 1 readiness through the value-capture period, aligned to the approved value-creation thesis.
• Operate within the IMO’s governance, charters, tools, and templates; manage cross-functional workstreams across Finance, HR, IT, Operations, Commercial, Legal, and Supply Chain; and maintain a disciplined reporting cadence for steering committees.
• Translate deal models into tracked synergy and improvement commitments across safety, quality, delivery, and cost; establish metrics, dashboards, and review rhythms to assess performance against the deal case.
• Partner with acquired-company leadership to introduce lean and Lean Six Sigma processes, Value Stream Mapping, daily management, and policy deployment, establishing visual management for timely performance feedback.
• Build trust and alignment across acquired leadership teams, corporate functions, and IMO workstream leads without direct reporting authority.
• Protect acquired-company culture, key talent, and customer relationships during the transition.
• Capture lessons learned, refine integration tools and templates, and contribute to improving the consistency, maturity, and repeatability of integrations across Vertiv’s deal pipeline.
• Embrace Vertiv’s Core Principles & Behaviors to help execute its Strategic Priorities.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior