As a part of the global industrial organization Marmon Holdings—which is backed by Berkshire Hathaway—you’ll be doing things that matter, leading at every level, and winning a better way. We’re committed to making a positive impact on the world, providing you with diverse learning and working opportunities, and fostering a culture where everyone’s empowered to be their best.
Sr. Director, Integration Excellence serves as the Group-level Center of Excellence leader responsible for building and deploying a disciplined, repeatable integration playbook across Marmon Medical companies.This role supports acquisitions from diligence through post-close execution by helping assess integration needs, define workstreams, identify resource requirements, select qualified integration leaders, build milestone-based plans, establish governance, track progress, diagnose delays, and help resolve roadblocks.
The role does not replace operating company accountability. Instead, it raises the standard of execution by bringing structure, tools, cadence, escalation discipline, and practical support to integrations and other major cross-functional projects, including facility expansions, footprint changes, and system implementations.
This leader will also serve as a key bridge between Marmon corporate resources and the Medical Group companies, helping translate corporate materials, expectations, and best practices into practical approaches suited for medical manufacturing and regulated operating environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Integration Playbook and COE Leadership
- Create and maintain a standard Group integration playbook for acquisitions and major projects.
- Develop practical templates, checklists, milestone plans, governance models, RACI structures, risk/issue logs, decision logs, and executive reporting formats.
- Build a scalable approach that flexes by deal size, complexity, risk, quality/regulatory needs, and available resources.
- Capture lessons learned and embed improvements into future integrations, projects, and training.
- M&A Due Diligence and Pre-Close Planning
- Participate in diligence to assess integration complexity, resources, risks, business continuity needs, and execution requirements.
- Partner with Group leadership, operating company leaders, and functional SMEs to identify integration implications across Finance, HR, IT, Operations, Supply Chain, Quality, Regulatory, Commercial, Legal, Compliance, Safety, Facilities, and Engineering.
- Define Day 1 readiness, critical path activities, workstreams, sequencing, dependencies, resource needs, and risk areas.
- Support diligence summaries covering integration assumptions, risks, resources, and one-time costs.
- Translate the deal thesis into an executable roadmap that protects continuity, captures value, reduces risk, and preserves customer confidence.
- Integration Planning and Program Design
- Partner with operating company leaders to build milestone-based integration plans with clear owners, deliverables, timelines, dependencies, risks, and escalation paths.
- Help select integration and workstream leaders with the right expertise, authority, bandwidth, and execution capability.
- Establish governance, including steering committees, workstream reviews, operating cadence, executive updates, escalation paths, and decision forums.
- Develop Day 1, Day 30, Day 100, 6-month, and 12-month plans as appropriate.
- Integration Execution, Governance, and Reporting
- Support operating companies in running integration programs through disciplined cadence, milestone tracking, risk management, issue escalation, and executive reporting.
- Monitor progress, identify delays or gaps, diagnose root causes, and help define corrective actions.
- Maintain visibility to risks, dependencies, resource constraints, unresolved decisions, budget impacts, and continuity concerns.
- Prepare concise, executive-ready updates for Group, Operating Company, and Marmon stakeholders.
- Ensure execution stays tied to the deal thesis, value creation plan, customer commitments, compliance needs, and operating priorities.
- Major Project / Facility Expansion and Move Support
- Adapt the integration playbook for facility expansions, moves, footprint changes, equipment moves, system implementations, operational transfers, and transformation programs.
- Help operating companies define project scope, workstreams, milestones, resources, risks, communication needs, and reporting cadence.
- Support critical path planning for customer continuity, production validation, quality/regulatory readiness, safety, equipment commissioning, staffing, inventory, supplier transitions, IT, and controls.
- Provide governance discipline without creating unnecessary bureaucracy.
Success Measures
Success in this role will be measured by:
- Improved consistency, speed, and quality of integration planning across the Medical Group.
- Clear integration playbook, templates, cadence, and governance model used by operating companies.
- Higher acquisition readiness before close and fewer surprises after close.
- Better visibility to milestones, risks, issues, decisions, dependencies, and resource needs.
- Timely escalation and resolution of integration roadblocks.
- Operating company leaders are equipped with stronger tools and project execution discipline.
- Lessons learned captured and reused across future acquisitions and major projects.
- Improved coordination between Marmon corporate and Medical Group operating companies.
Required Experience and Capabilities
- Bachelor’s degree required; MBA or advanced degree preferred.
- 10+ years of experience in operations, integration, program management, corporate development, consulting, transformation, or general management.
- Experience leading or supporting M&A integration, post-merger integration, transformation, operational integration, or complex cross-functional projects.
- Strong program management skills, including milestone planning, governance, dependency management, issue resolution, reporting, and stakeholder alignment.
- Experience working across Operations, Finance, HR, IT, Commercial, Quality, Regulatory, Legal, Supply Chain, Engineering, Facilities, and Compliance.
- Ability to influence senior leaders and functional experts without direct authority.
- Strong business acumen connecting integration work to value creation, operating performance, customer continuity, risk mitigation, and financial outcomes.
- Ability to simplify complex work into practical tools, clear ownership, actionable milestones, and disciplined follow-up.
- Strong executive communication skills.
- Medical device, life sciences, regulated manufacturing, or multi-site manufacturing experience preferred.
Leadership Profile
Ideal candidate is a structured operator, practical problem solver, and high-trust partner to business leaders. They bring order to complexity without creating bureaucracy and know when to standardize, adapt, push, or escalate.
This person must be credible with operating company Presidents, functional leaders, Marmon corporate teams, acquired company leaders, and external advisors. They should be equally effective in diligence discussions, plant walks, workstream reviews, steering committee updates, and problem-solving sessions.
The role requires strong judgment, business acumen, influence, attention to detail, executive communication, and the ability to motivate teams through complex, time-sensitive work.
Pay Range:
-We offer a comprehensive benefits package that may include medical, dental, vision, 401k matching, and more!
Following receipt of a conditional offer of employment, candidates will be required to complete additional job-related screening processes as permitted or required by applicable law.
We are an equal opportunity employer, and all applicants will be considered for employment without attention to their membership in any protected class. If you require any reasonable accommodation to complete your application or any part of the recruiting process, please email your request to [email protected], and please be sure to include the title and the location of the position for which you are applying.
Marmon Holdings Chicago, Illinois, USA Office
Chicago, IL , United States
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