Associate Director - Integrations & Acquisitions - CDO
The Associate Director - Integrations & Acquisitions - CDO is accountable for leading and overseeing all integration activities related to new companies or acquired assets within CDO, ensuring the seamless assimilation of people, processes, and systems. This role is responsible for planning, coordinating, and executing comprehensive integration strategies that align with CDO's standards, policies, and business objectives. This role minimizes disruption and risk during transition phases, proactively manages change, and ensures business continuity and quality throughout the integration lifecycle. By maintaining consistent practices and partnering with cross-functional teams, this role directly supports the successful realization of value from business development deals and strengthens CDO's capacity for scalable growth.
Responsibilities :
- Establishes and implements comprehensive plans to address unique needs of each transaction
- Develop and assess integrated project plans, risk plans, and effectiveness metrics for each integration initiative
- Responsible for guiding the integration team through all aspects of the change management process to ensure smooth and efficient transitions
- This position is responsible for problem solving, risk mitigation and contingency plans at a global level
- This role is integral in setting and ensuring alignment across a set of integrated initiatives / activities
- Actively shares learnings and collaborates with other Integration Leads to apply best practices to support teams
- Supports high performing project teams through monitoring and assessing the team's performance and adherence to project timelines and quality
- This is the first level position (of 2 levels) within a job family which is responsible for overseeing the management of projects that are cross-functional, highly complex, have high impact and are top priority for the organization
- This position will report into a director level and will manage matrix teams
Qualifications :
Bachelor's degree is required, typically in scientific field. An Associate's degree / R.N. with relevant experience is acceptable8+ years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry in a variety of roles associated with drug development (research and development, commercial, project management, operations) Minimum of 2 years supporting cross-functional teams in a core function (Program Management, Development, Regulatory)Strong leadership skillsGood communication skills both written and oralProject management experience in the pharmaceutical industryDemonstration of leading a global team. PMP, Change Management, or process improvement experience desirableApplicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law :
The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical / dental / vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs.This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs