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Summary
Are you an experienced technology leader who thrives in the fast-paced world of mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and enterprise transformation? This opportunity is ideal for a senior program leader who has successfully guided organizations through complex IT integrations, carve-outs, separations, and large-scale deployment initiatives. You’ll play a highly visible role partnering with business and technology leaders to deliver strategic outcomes that directly impact organizational growth and transformation. If you excel at navigating complexity, influencing stakeholders, and driving execution across multiple workstreams, this could be an excellent fit.
About the Opportunity
Join a growing global organization where technology plays a critical role in enabling business evolution and strategic change. This position offers the opportunity to lead enterprise-level initiatives that support organizational growth, operational alignment, and technology modernization.
You’ll work alongside executive leadership, business stakeholders, and technical teams across multiple regions to ensure seamless delivery of high-impact programs. The role offers significant visibility, ownership, and the opportunity to shape how technology supports major business transitions and long-term success.
What You’ll Do
Lead Strategic M&A Technology Programs
Drive technology workstreams supporting acquisitions, divestitures, integrations, separations, and organizational transformations.
- Lead end-to-end planning and execution of complex IT M&A initiatives.
- Coordinate multiple technology and business workstreams to achieve integration and transition objectives.
- Align delivery plans with organizational priorities, timelines, and business outcomes.
- Support post-acquisition integration efforts and separation activities from strategy through execution.
Drive Program Delivery & Governance
Provide leadership across large-scale initiatives while ensuring strong execution and transparency.
- Oversee portfolios of concurrent projects and programs.
- Establish delivery governance, executive reporting, and decision-making frameworks.
- Manage budgets, resource allocation, risks, dependencies, vendor relationships, and timelines.
- Monitor program health and performance through meaningful metrics and reporting.
Partner Across Business & Technology Teams
Serve as a trusted advisor and connector across diverse stakeholder groups.
- Collaborate with business leaders, infrastructure teams, application owners, cybersecurity teams, and external partners.
- Build consensus, facilitate critical decisions, and resolve complex delivery challenges.
- Support organizational change, communications, training, and adoption efforts.
- Foster strong relationships across global teams and partner organizations.
Enable Continuous Improvement
Help strengthen delivery capabilities and improve organizational effectiveness.
- Promote program management best practices and delivery excellence.
- Drive process improvements that increase efficiency, quality, and stakeholder satisfaction.
- Conduct lessons learned reviews and implement ongoing improvements.
- Mentor project and program professionals while fostering accountability and collaboration.
Success in This Role
You will thrive in this role if you enjoy balancing strategic planning with hands-on execution, can navigate ambiguity confidently, and have a proven record of delivering technology outcomes in highly complex M&A environments.
What You Bring
- Strong experience leading IT M&A programs, including integrations, carve-outs, divestitures, separations, migrations, and enterprise deployments.
- Typically brings 12+ years of program or project leadership experience within complex enterprise environments.
- Experience leading large-scale technology initiatives involving multiple stakeholders, business units, and functions.
- Proven ability to manage cross-functional teams in matrixed organizations.
- Strong background overseeing budgets, resources, vendors, risks, timelines, and governance activities.
- Expertise delivering enterprise-wide implementations and technology transformation initiatives.
- Knowledge of Agile, Waterfall, Hybrid delivery approaches and modern IT delivery practices.
- Familiarity with software development, operations, service management, and technology lifecycle processes.
- Strong executive communication, stakeholder engagement, negotiation, and relationship-building skills.
- Experience supporting globally distributed teams and international business operations.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and professional experience.
Nice to Have
- PMP, Agile, Scrum, SAFe, or comparable project delivery certifications.
- Spanish language proficiency.
- Experience leading cloud, infrastructure, enterprise application, ERP, or HR technology programs.
- Exposure to digital transformation, modernization, and large-scale platform implementations.
- Experience working within multinational organizations supporting multiple geographic regions.
- Background using modern project, portfolio, collaboration, and reporting platforms.
Why Consider This Opportunity?
- High-visibility leadership role supporting critical business growth and transformation initiatives.
- Opportunity to lead complex M&A integrations, separations, and technology transition programs.
- Significant exposure to executive stakeholders and enterprise decision-makers.
- Ability to influence strategic outcomes across a global organization.
- Long-term engagement focused on impactful, enterprise-scale work.
- Collaborative environment that values leadership, innovation, and continuous improvement.
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