Sr. Director, Technology M&A Integration

WARNERMEDIA • MD

76d • $177,170 - $329,030

About The Position

As Warner Brother Discovery (WBD) portfolio continues to grow – around the world and across platforms – the Technology & Operations (T&O) team continues to build media technology and IT systems that meet the world-class standard. T&O builds, implements and maintains the business systems and technology that are critical for delivering WBD’s products, while articulating the long-term technology strategy that will enable WBD’s growing audience and reach for pay-tv, digital terrestrial, free-to-air, online services, studios and consumer products. From Amsterdam to Singapore and from Digital and broadcast operations to SAP, we are driving WBD forward on the leading edge of technology. We are hiring a Sr Director, Technology & Operations, M&A Due Diligence and Planning leader to drive our M&A portfolio success.

Requirements

• 8-10 years of IT and business/industry work experience, with at least 3 years of M&A integration experience and 5 years developing and executing project portfolios.
• Experience with M&A integration road maps, and technology systems and infrastructure, business systems and process road maps.
• Completed 3 or more M&A integration projects across a global company, each with a minimum of $5 million dollars in revenue.
• Strong computer skills: MS Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams.
• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent relevant work experience.

Responsibilities

• Support due diligence, integration planning, and implementation phases of acquisitions and partner closely with the Corporate Development lead to represent T&O on the M&A pipeline.
• Act as the technology SME and advisor to senior leadership and provide specific guidance and strategies around integration, separation, and implementation approaches for both prospective and completed acquisition transactions.
• Define and lead multiple M&A analysis, projects, and planning efforts in collaboration with T&O enterprise technology, business systems, broadcast systems, and information security.
• Be accountable for on-time delivery and readiness of Day 0 and Day 1 activities.
• Build the M&A budget estimates through working closely with technology, procurement, HR, and finance partners to ensure estimates are holistic and inclusive of all impacts and assumptions.
• Collaborate with technical teams to manage and govern the ideation process to define/validate the synergy capture targets and to lead bottom-up planning.
• Work with technology teams on business case development and define and measure success metrics to ensure handoff to execution is governed against target outcomes.
• Own the M&A Playbook, standards and best practices across the division ensuring knowledge of the M&A practice is maintained and matured.
• Support the creation of executive-level analysis, briefings, & reports for internal use and key stakeholders.
• Lead special studies, analysis, and projects to deliver value on opportunities to consolidate, rationalize and streamline T&O where needed.
• Provide ongoing governance to the WBD integration through leading iterative ideation to ensure financial targets and business continuity are achieved in partnership with the WBD Integration Management Office (IMO) and the T&O PMO team.

Benefits

• Health insurance coverage
• Employee wellness program
• Life and disability insurance
• Retirement savings plan
• Paid holidays and sick time
• Vacation

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees