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Technology Integration Lead

Graco manufactures and markets premium equipment to move, measure, control, dispense and spray a wide variety of fluid and powder materials. What does that mean? Well, we pump peanut butter into your jar, and the oil in your car. We glue the soles of your shoes, the glass in your windows and the screen on your phone. We spray the finish on your vehicle, coatings on your pills, the paint on your house and texture on your walls. Graco is part of your daily life.

This role is currently based at our Minneapolis office and will transition to our new headquarters in Dayton, MN, in 2027.

The Technology Integration Lead is responsible for planning and coordinating all diligence and integration activities for IT during mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and other transformation initiatives. This position serves as the primary IT leader for the IMO, working across the Infrastructure, Applications, Data & Analytics, and Security teams to ensure there are integrated IT scope, priorities, and timeline that deliver on integration objectives, synergies, risk management, and the target operating model without disrupting business continuity. The position partners closely with IT leaders, acquired company counterparts, and cross-functional teams to deliver milestones on time and with minimal disruption.

What You Will Do at Graco

Integration Planning & Execution

• Orchestrate IT diligence, integration planning, and execution for the assigned workstream working across the Infrastructure, Applications, Data & Analytics, and Security teams so each has clear scope and priorities, and their work converges into a single functional plan.
• Develop and maintain the functional integration roadmap, milestones, deliverables, dependencies, and resource requirements.
• Translate integration objectives into actionable work plans aligned with the overall integration strategy.
• Ensure completion of all functional integration activities within agreed timelines and scope.
• Coordinate with acquired company counterparts to facilitate successful integration execution.
• Partner with the IT Function team to determine the overall tech rationalization plan (retain, consolidate, migrate, or retire), with delivery of tech rationalization owned by each respective IT sub-function.
• Own IT Day-1 readiness across infrastructure, applications, cybersecurity, collaboration, end-user services, and service management to ensure a secure and seamless transition with minimal business disruption.

Synergy & Value Capture

• Identify, validate, and support delivery of integration synergies and value creation opportunities.
• Establish functional KPIs and success metrics aligned with deal objectives.
• Monitor progress against synergy targets and proactively address risks to realization.
• Recommend process improvements and standardization opportunities that contribute to business value.
• Support realization of infrastructure-related synergies through standardization, platform consolidation, operational efficiency improvements, and elimination of redundant technologies
• Support the planning and orchestration of acquired data into Graco's enterprise platform certified enterprise definitions without disrupting financial, executive, or operational reporting.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Serve as the primary point of contact between the IT function and the Integration Management Office.
• Manage IT interdependencies and collaborate with other workstream leaders to resolve issues and remove barriers.
• Participate in integration governance forums, provide timely progress updates, and pace the workstream against IMO milestones using the IMO's planning and tracking tools, flagging timing or dependency risks early.
• Escalate significant risks, issues, or resource constraints to leadership when appropriate.
• Ensure application integration decisions align with enterprise application standards, platform strategy, and long-term architectural roadmaps.
• Partner with Infrastructure, Security, Enterprise Architecture, Applications, and business stakeholders to ensure technology integration decisions balance business continuity, operational stability, cybersecurity, and long-term strategic objectives.
• Manage the integration risk register for key findings, owners, target dates, remediation, dependencies, and risk acceptance items.
• Partner with Finance, IT, HR, Sales, and Operations leads to align on shared data definitions, source-system dependencies, and reporting requirements, ensuring each function's data needs are captured in one integrated plan rather than solved in silos.

Change Management & Communication

• Support stakeholder engagement, communication planning, and change management activities.
• Drive adoption of new processes, systems, and ways of working.
• Build alignment among stakeholders and foster collaboration across organizations.
• Help maintain employee engagement and business continuity through the integration process.
• Support end-user training and adoption planning for new or migrated applications, coordinating with functional business owners to minimize disruption during cutover.

Governance & Risk Management

• Establish and maintain workstream reporting, status tracking, and issue logs.
• Identify risks and develop mitigation plans to minimize disruption and execution challenges.
• Ensure compliance with applicable policies, procedures, and regulatory requirements.
• Capture lessons learned and contribute to continuous improvement of integration methodologies and tools.
• Confirm with the owning IT teams that acquired entities meet enterprise standards for infrastructure operations, service management, monitoring, backup and recovery, endpoint management, and technology lifecycle before transition to steady-state operations.
• Ensure operational ownership, support processes, documentation, asset inventories, and service transition activities are completed before transitioning acquired environments to steady-state operations.
• Deliver Day-1 and Day-100 reporting commitments, apply enterprise governance and metric standards to acquired data, and transition the entity from deal-specific support to business-as-usual analytics ownership.

What You Will Bring to Graco

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology or a related field.
• 7+ years of IT experience, including leading projects, programs, transformations, or business integrations.
• Strong project management and organizational skills.
• Ability to influence and drive alignment without direct authority; strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making capabilities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Working knowledge of enterprise application ecosystems (e.g., ERP such as Oracle Fusion or SAP; CRM such as Salesforce) and how they interrelate in a post-merger environment.
• Familiarity with system integration, data migration, and cutover planning, including integration platforms, master data management, and data mapping/reconciliation practices.
• Working knowledge of enterprise infrastructure domains including cloud platforms, networking, compute, storage, collaboration technologies, identity and access management, endpoint services, and IT service management processes.
• Experience with infrastructure integrations, carve-outs, technology transformations, or M&A initiatives; experience partnering with enterprise architecture, security, and infrastructure teams is a plus.
• Experience supporting due diligence, integration planning, remediation tracking, and executive risk reporting for M&A or divestitures.

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States. This role is not eligible for immigration sponsorship now or in the future (e.g., H-1B, TN, F-1 OPT).

At Graco, you truly make a difference. Your unique talents contribute to our organizational growth and future. Not only do you make a difference, but Graco's culture empowers employees to create their own career path. Whether you choose to advance within your current department or explore new opportunities in different divisions, you have the ability to build your future. Our managers are here to provide support and guidance as you continue to grow within your career.

Graco has excellent opportunities available to individuals who want to be part of a fast-moving, growing company that is committed to quality, innovation and solving fluid handling problems for our customers. Graco is proud to be named a Best Place to Work by Fortune Magazine in 2016, 2018, 2019, 2021 & 2022. Graco offers attractive compensation, benefits and career development opportunities. Graco's comprehensive benefits include medical, dental, stock purchase plan, 401(k), tuition reimbursement and more.

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