IT Program Director, M&A Business Process and Systems Strategy

What you'll do

• Define business process and systems strategies for acquisitions, carve-outs, separations, and divestitures across the full transaction lifecycle.
• Translate diligence findings and deal objectives into integration roadmaps, risk assessments, and cost estimates.
• Map end-to-end business processes, applications, data, and integrations for major value streams like Order to Cash and Procure to Pay.
• Drive decisions on process standardization, application retention, platform adoption, and business readiness for target states.
• Facilitate alignment between IT Value Streams, Enterprise Architecture, and business leaders to resolve conflicts and frame options.
• Identify and preserve differentiating capabilities from acquired companies to incorporate into the enterprise roadmap.
• Build reusable integration patterns, playbooks, and decision frameworks to improve speed and predictability across transactions.

What we're looking for

• Must have a Bachelor’s degree.
• Must have 10+ years of experience with a Bachelor’s degree or 8+ years of experience with an advanced degree.
• Must have 7+ years of managerial experience.
• Must have significant experience leading business systems or technology strategy for acquisitions, carve-outs, separations, or other complex transactions.
• Must have working knowledge of SAP ECC and/or SAP S/4HANA, including adjacent applications, data, integrations, controls, and business processes.
• Must have demonstrated ability to connect end-to-end business processes and value streams to applications, data, integrations, controls, and operating models.
• Must have experience driving application portfolio rationalization, process harmonization, and transition decisions across multiple business and technology domains.
• Must have experience leading strategic programs through matrixed teams and external partners without direct reporting authority.
• Must have experience influencing senior business leaders, IT Value Streams, Enterprise Architecture, and technology partners through clear recommendations.
• Must have experience translating complex process and systems landscapes into decision-ready roadmaps with clear milestones and risks.
• Must have experience leading or challenging major system integrators, consulting partners, or advisory firms supporting technology transformation.
• Must possess unrestricted U.S. work authorization at the time of hire and for the duration of employment.
• Experience in medical technology, life sciences, healthcare, or another highly regulated industry (preferred).
• Experience across one or more complex business and technology domains such as R&D, Product Development, PLM, Commercial, CRM, Quality, Regulatory, Clinical, manufacturing, supply chain, data, or analytics (preferred).
• Experience leading major enterprise platform implementations, deployments, migrations, or transformation programs, including SAP ECC or S/4HANA, in global environments (preferred).
• Experience with transactions ranging from approximately $100M to $1B in enterprise value, including tuck-in acquisitions, carve-outs, divestitures, or transition service agreements (preferred).
• Experience developing business capability maps, process architectures, application portfolios, system maps, integration patterns, or enterprise platform roadmaps (preferred).
• Experience operating within a large, global, matrixed organization (preferred).