Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Celestica is a technology and manufacturing company serving complex global markets. The Director leads due diligence and post-acquisition integration, developing plans, managing budgets and timelines, resolving roadblocks, and ensuring the acquired entity achieves committed financial and strategic value. The role also mentors acquired-entity leadership and reports integration progress to senior executives.
Responsibilities
- Implements a set of proven, well-established functional processes while providing direction to the management of the acquired entity to bring about the value expected from the deal or project
- Participates in due diligence and assessments for potential acquisitions
- Participates in site visits to assess the general capabilities, value of the operation and the leadership team capabilities
- Leads work with functional teams to develop thorough integration plans that address the gap between the existing operation and the desired state including the development of a roadmap and the establishment of the team necessary to implement the roadmap
- Drives the leadership mentoring to the management team of the acquired entity
- This includes: extensive relationship building; conduit of information and direction on policies and practices; giving direction to the staff on business assumptions relating to the business plan (staffing, capital resources, organizational structure, margin expectations, etc); real time and extensive dialogue to assist the new team's smooth transition to Celestica; point of contact for the new team; offering business and personal support and encouragement to the new management team throughout the acquisition process; and, recommend which members of the management team need further development through training, mentoring, assignments, etc
- Ensures contractual obligations established during the deal agreements phase are disseminated through site management and provide direction to achieve the established targets
- This involves selling the validity of these obligations and eventually transitioning the responsibility to the local and regional management
- Responsible for regular reporting of integration highlights and key initiatives to senior corporate executives and site management as part of the MOR process
- Develop communication plan with management of new entity that covers all employees, as well as potential occasional involvement in communicating with local government, press and industry organizations
- Drives project management and decision-making for the integration project
- Ensures that timetables and priorities for integration are in place and tracking
- Manages the overall integration budget to ensure spending does not exceed plan
- Removes roadblocks and any integration issues
- Defines indicators of success for the project defines end of job criteria and conducts post-integration reviews to ensure the project was successfully integrated
- Responsible for making significant decisions in an environment of ambiguity where key information is lacking
- Responsible for creating and defining the value drivers for the acquisition, then identifying gaps between existing and desired operational state to achieve desired value
- This includes managing the complex political nature of the environment diplomatically
- Responsible for driving the conditions within the acquired entity to complete the integration
- Completion means all decision making and results ownership is assumed by local and/or regional management
- The Site GM, the regional SVP and the VP Integration all agree that the integration activity is completed as part of the hand-off process
- Areas for assessment include: financials; customers; strategy; capability; operational performance; communications; people / values
Skills
- Strong general management background
- 5-8 years of operational management experience in contract manufacturing environment
- Self starter
- Executive leadership skills in building teams, managing change, and communications
- Ability to build consensus and motivate a performance based team
- Ability to effectively communicate with a wide variety of internal and external customers
- Ability to develop a strong, positive relationship with people at all levels in the organization
- Proven ability to manage projects and meet the required results
- Ability to establish business goals and coordinate a wide variety of resources to meet quality and quantity metrics
- Proven negotiation skills in pulling together divergent viewpoints into common goals
- Excellent business, analytical, negotiation and problem resolution skills
- Frequent overnight travel may be required
- Twelve plus years of relevent experience
- Bachelor's degree in Business or Engineering required
- MBA with a General Management curriculum would be preferred
Benefits
- Eligible employees scheduled to work 30 hours or more per week receive medical insurance.
- Eligible employees scheduled to work 30 hours or more per week receive dental insurance.
- Eligible employees scheduled to work 30 hours or more per week receive vision insurance.
- Eligible employees scheduled to work 30 hours or more per week receive short-term disability insurance.
- Eligible employees scheduled to work 30 hours or more per week receive long-term disability insurance.
- Eligible employees scheduled to work 30 hours or more per week receive life insurance.
- Eligible employees scheduled to work 30 hours or more per week receive voluntary benefits.
- Eligible employees scheduled to work 30 hours or more per week receive a 401k plan with company match.
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