Integra Life Sciences is looking for a Senior Manager of IT Mergers & Acquisitions supporting our global corporate development function with a proven track record of driving alignment across a matrixed organization to desired business outcomes and quantitative KPI improvements related to Pre-Deal Technology Due Diligence. This role would lead a cross-functional teams through process centered discussions that generate integrated technology solutions across the various areas of Integra: Applications, Infrastructure, Project, and Financial planning.

This role will be responsible for shaping and designing an IT M&A playbook that organizes a sequential process for integrating new companies over the desired time horizon. By strategically partnering with Corporate Development, Finance, and Legal this role will evaluate IT architecture, cybersecurity, modernization gaps, and IT contracts to quantify synergy opportunities and acquisition risks. Initially there will be a deep focus on ensuring the process and systems critical to day 1 of the integrations have been considered into the deal models and access from a risk and IT compliance perspective. This role exists to help translate business requirements into business cases and vetted investments in technology over multiple years while ensuring mandatory companywide priorities are met.

The ideal candidate for this role exhibits strong business acumen, executive presentation skills, understanding of corporate finance, and how to write business cases for digital transformation projects. The candidate should exhibit a history of strong project management and stakeholder management.

Additionally, this role may require travel (up to 20%).

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.

Primary responsibilities are to:

• Leads the technical workstreams for mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures focused on IT due diligence. Orchestrates the transition from due diligence to post-merger integration, ensuring that IT infrastructure, networks, emails, applications, and data from both entities are unified without disrupting validated environments or clinical operations.

• Integration Planning & TSA Management: Develop the "Day 1" readiness plan and long-term "End State" roadmap. Create detailed workplans for Active Directory migrations, ERP consolidations (e.g., Oracle), and cloud integrations. Define and manage Transitional Service Agreements (TSAs) to ensure business continuity while the acquired entity is being decoupled from its parent company.

• Regulatory & Compliance: Ensure all IT integration activities comply with GxP (Good Practice), HIPAA/GDPR, and 21 CFR Part 11. Oversee the re-validation of systems in the newly merged environment.

DESIRED MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required for his position.

• Education: Bachelor’s Degree in a Technical or Business field, master’s degree desirable

• Preferred Certifications: Process Excellence / Six Sigma / Lean / Organizational Change Management / PMP / ITIL / Business Analyst Training / Green or Black Belt

• Experience:

  • Minimum 10 years’ experience in the Life Sciences, Pharma, MedTech, or Biotech industries

  • 5+ years of experience leading process improvement initiatives.

  • 5+ years of experience working in, or supporting digital strategy and transformation

  • Minimum 3 years’ experience working in, or supporting business development, integrations, and post integration processes

  • Familiarity integrating Quality Management Systems (QMS), Product Lifecycle Management Systems (PLM), and Customer Relationship Management system (CRM)

  • Preferred: Executive presentation skills, experience a MedTech quality and regulatory environment.

Additional details:

We are looking for candidates to join our hybrid team based in Princeton, NJ. To ensure you can comfortably make your in-office days, all applicants must reside within a 2-hour commute of the Princeton area.