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Integration Director

Integral part of due diligence process with M&A including participating in the decision of whether or not to proceed with the investment. Develop the integration plan for new acquisitions to ensure the realization of the committed value generation. Project manage the overall integration activity plan to meet the business model financial and strategic objectives as established during the investment review and commitment. Work with the management team of the acquired entity to establish the successful business operation as well as aligning processes, culture and expectations consistent with Celestica's values and objectives. First director level job. Provides direct and indirect supervision to all subordinate managers and employees at a site performing highly specialized roles in several major functions or departments. This includes long-term planning, objective setting, policy formation, interpretation and management while providing latitude and discretion to subordinates. Accountable for projects or programs on a regional or line-of-business basis. Has overall responsibility to deliver ROIC benefits expected from the deal or project. Work requires investigating and resolving a wide variety of highly unusual conditions that carry long-term implications. Requires developing project specific strategies, policies, practices, methods, programs or techniques and utilizing them to analyze and interpret difficult problems or situations and / or establishing new strategic direction that is site or multi-site specific. Participates with other senior managers to establish strategic plans and objectives. Has overall responsibility for planning, budgeting, implementing and maintaining costs, methods and employees in a functional area. Make final decisions on administrative and operational matters in area of responsibility to ensure achievement of objectives. Directs and controls the activities of projects through several department managers or their delegates. Assigns objectives, reviews performance and approves employee compensation, coaches for improved performance. Regularly interacts with executives and / or major customers. Interactions normally involve controversial situations, customer negotiations, or influencing and persuading other senior level managers. May represent the organization in public speaking venues and / or community events.

Performs tasks such as, but not limited to, the following :

• 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

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Location : This is a remote position, with travel as necessary. We are open to considering candidates close to any of our US locations in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Texas, Arizona, Oregon or California as well as locations near major airports such as the Northeast, Southeast, Midwest and Pacific Coast.

Company Overview : Celestica enables the world's best brands. Through our recognized customer-centric approach, we partner with leading companies in Aerospace and Defense, Communications, Enterprise, HealthTech, Industrial, Capital Equipment and Energy to deliver solutions for their most complex challenges. As a leader in design, manufacturing, hardware platform and supply chain solutions, Celestica brings global expertise and insight at every stage of product development from drawing board to full-scale production and after-market services for products from advanced medical devices, to highly engineered aviation systems, to next-generation hardware platform solutions for the Cloud. Headquartered in Toronto, with talented teams spanning 40+ locations in 13 countries across the Americas, Europe and Asia, we imagine, develop and deliver a better future with our customers.