Senior Operations Integration Specialist
About The Position
The Senior Operations Integration Specialist at NorthBay Health manages the coordination and execution oversight of enterprise integration initiatives, typically supporting mergers, acquisitions, or strategic partnerships. The role supports integration planning, cross-functional alignment, risk management, Day-One readiness, and long-term value realization. This is an on-site, management-exempt position requiring travel and a flexible schedule, including some evening and weekend work. The specialist develops and maintains workstream integration plans, translates integration strategy and TSA/APA requirements into deliverables, manages the integration critical path, and addresses interdependencies, sequencing conflicts, risks, and resource constraints. The role maintains risk and action logs, participates in governance forums, produces operational and executive status reporting, and tracks milestones against strategic value objectives. The specialist also contributes lessons learned and best practices to NorthBay Health’s integration playbook.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree required.
- At least 5 years of experience in program management, project management, management consulting, corporate strategy, or M&A integration.
- Demonstrated experience managing complex, cross-functional programs, preferably in healthcare or similarly regulated environments.
- Advanced program and project management capabilities, including critical path management, dependency mapping, and risk frameworks.
- Strong business acumen and ability to connect operational execution to strategic value drivers.
- Exceptional stakeholder management and influence skills across executive and operational levels.
- Highly structured thinking, analytical skills, and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including executive-level reporting.
- Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous, fast-paced environments with competing priorities.
- Ability to travel and work a flexible schedule, including some weekends and evenings.
- Demonstrate NorthBay Health’s True North values: Nurture Care, Own It, Respect Relationships, Build Trust, and Hardwire Excellence.
Nice To Haves
- Master’s degree, MBA, or related field.
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification; highly preferred.
- Experience with post-merger integration, TSA management, or large-scale transformation initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain integration plans across assigned workstreams, including scope, milestones, dependencies, ownership, escalations, communications, and timelines.
- Partner with functional leaders to create detailed workstream plans and translate integration strategy and TSA/APA requirements into executable deliverables.
- Manage the integration critical path, emphasizing Day-One readiness sequencing and pre-close decision requirements.
- Identify and manage cross-workstream interdependencies, sequencing conflicts, risks, and resource constraints.
- Maintain the integration risk register, documenting ownership, mitigation, tracking, severity, business impact, and escalation thresholds.
- Surface material risks and issues to integration leadership with context, implications, and recommended actions.
- Identify prioritization conflicts and provide data-driven recommendations for executive decision-making.
- Establish an engagement cadence with workstream leaders to support plan accuracy, issue visibility, and progress.
- Participate in integration governance forums and workstream meetings, accurately capturing decisions, risks, and action items.
- Own the workstream integration action log and ensure accountability and closure of open items.
- Prepare and deliver integration status reports for operational audiences and executive-level steering committee summaries.
- Communicate changes to timelines, milestones, and dependencies and explain their effects on the integration plan and critical path.
- Track integration milestones tied to value realization and alignment with acquisition rationale and executive expectations.
- Monitor workstream execution for alignment with strategic intent and escalate deviations with recommended corrective actions.
- Contribute processes, lessons learned, and best practices to the organization’s integration playbook.
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Life insurance
- Disability coverage
- Long-term care coverage
- Paid time off, including vacation, sick leave, holidays, and bereavement
- 403(b) retirement plan with employer match
- Education reimbursement for eligible roles
- Professional development and training programs
- Employee Assistance Program
- Wellness programs
- Recognition programs
- Shift differentials
- Market-based compensation review and increases, subject to approval and organizational performance
- Variable incentive compensation plan eligibility for manager-level and above positions
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
