Vice President M & A Integration

Mercy Health BSMH • Blue Ash, OH

20h • Remote

About The Position

This position delivers executive oversight for mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and key partnership integrations, supporting the achievement of strategic, financial, operational, and cultural goals. The VP shapes integration strategies, governance, and decision-making frameworks, and partners with senior leadership to ensure integrations advance the organization’s operating model and growth objectives. This position also provides enterprise program governance and oversight for the EBITDA margin optimization program. The role involves providing enterprise executive leadership and accountability for the successful integration of all acquisitions, mergers, divestitures and strategic partnerships with transaction values up to or exceeding $10Billon, ensuring disciplined execution, value realization, and risk mitigation across BSMH. It also includes setting and leading enterprise integration strategies, partnering with senior executives to align transaction objectives with the BSMH operating model, long-term growth strategy, and capital allocation priorities, while exercising independent judgment on sequencing and risk exposure. The VP owns BMSH integration governance and performance oversight, including synergy validation, risk escalation, and value tracking, and regularly reports integration progress, risks, and value realization outcomes to executive leadership team(s) and the BSMH Board of Directors. The role also involves establishing, leading, developing, and scaling an enterprise integration management office (IMO) providing executive direction to integration leaders and cross-functional teams while driving alignment and accountability across business units and functions. It defines and stewards the enterprise integration framework and playbook, including standard decision rights, governance models, financial rigor, and performance expectations to ensure consistency, repeatability and scalability across all transactions. The VP leads executive-level integration operating cadence, enabling timely decision-making, proactive risk management, and sustained alignment across stakeholders, and maintains ultimate accountability for integration risk and outcomes, intervening directly where execution, value realization, or enterprise objectives are at risk. It also involves partnering with associate and external communications, organizational change leadership to ensure clarity, transparency, and alignment across executives, leaders, and impacted stakeholders throughout the integration lifecycle. The VP serves as the enterprise authority on integration strategy and best practices, leveraging external benchmarks and industry insights to continuously improve transaction performance and long-term value creation, and partners with executive leadership to identify, prioritize, and execute high-impact EBITDA margin improvement initiatives, delivering greater than $400M in annualized financial impact.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Healthcare Administration, or comparable discipline
• 10 years’ progressive leadership experience in healthcare, corporate development, integration management, or enterprise program leadership
• Demonstrated experience leading multiple, concurrent, enterprise-scale integrations with material financial and operational impact
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional activities spanning operations, finance, clinical, IT, HR, and supply chain, with accountability for outcomes
• Experience presenting to executive leadership teams and Boards of Directors
• 5+ years’ direct team leadership experience
• Demonstrated experience administering project management software platforms

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Healthcare Administration, or comparable discipline
• Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification

Responsibilities

• Provide enterprise executive leadership and accountability for the successful integration of all acquisitions, mergers, divestitures and strategic partnerships with transaction values up to or exceeding $10Billon, ensuring disciplined execution, value realization, and risk mitigation across BSMH.
• Set and lead enterprise integration strategies, partnering with senior executives to align transaction objectives with the BSMH operating model, long-term growth strategy, and capital allocation priorities, while exercising independent judgment on sequencing and risk exposure.
• Own BMSH integration governance and performance oversight, including synergy validation, risk escalation, and value tracking, and regularly report integration progress, risks, and value realization outcomes to executive leadership team(s) and the BSMH Board of Directors.
• Establish, lead, develop, and scale an enterprise integration management office (IMO) providing executive direction to integration leaders and cross-functional teams while driving alignment and accountability across business units and functions.
• Define and steward the enterprise integration framework and playbook, including standard decision rights, governance models, financial rigor, and performance expectations to ensure consistency, repeatability and scalability across all transactions.
• Lead executive-level integration operating cadence, enabling timely decision-making, proactive risk management, and sustained alignment across stakeholders.
• Maintain ultimate accountability for integration risk and outcomes intervening directly where execution, value realization, or enterprise objectives are at risk.
• Partner with associate and external communications, organizational change leadership to ensure clarity, transparency, and alignment across executives, leaders, and impacted stakeholders throughout integration lifecycle.
• Serve as the enterprise authority on integration strategy and best practices, leveraging external benchmarks and industry insights to continuously improve transaction performance and long-term value creation.
• Partner with executive leadership to identify, prioritize, and execute high-impact EBITDA margin improvement initiatives, delivering greater than $400M in annualized financial impact.

Benefits

• Competitive pay, incentives, referral bonuses and 403(b) with employer contributions (when eligible)
• Medical, dental, vision, prescription coverage, HSA/FSA options, life insurance, mental health resources and discounts
• Paid time off, parental and FMLA leave, short- and long-term disability, backup care for children and elders
• Tuition assistance, professional development and continuing education support

What This Job Offers

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