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Director, Americas Integration Lead

Grant Thornton (US) · Baltimore, MD · 1 mo ago
Hybrid$188k–$313k/yrFull-time
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for section headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Use only sections that have real specific content. Must not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate, navigation, legal, EEO, etc. Must preserve all substantive info. We need to parse the job description. Key sections: - About the role: description of role: "Grant Thornton is seeking a Director, Americas Integration Lead to join the team. The Director, Americas Integration Lead is accountable for integration delivery across the Americas portfolio as part of the Global Integration Management Office (IMO). The Director oversees integrations primarily through program managers assigned to individual transactions, while directly leading selected integrations based on complexity, risk, or resourcing needs. The Director serves as the primary IMO contact for the Americas and works with acquired-entity leaders, regional and market leadership, functional executives, and external advisors. The role leads the Americas integration team, allocates resources across concurrent integrations, and ensures each program follows the IMO’s governance, tools, reporting standards, and operating cadence while adapting execution to transaction and market requirements." That's about the role. - Responsibilities: list of responsibilities under "Key Responsibilities:" with subheadings: Americas Integration Delivery, Regional Team Leadership, Global IMO Alignment and Governance. Each has bullet points. We need to output
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        containing each bullet. We should preserve all bullet points. - Requirements / Qualifications: The posting has "Qualifications" section with bullet-like sentences. Also there is "Success Measures" maybe could be considered Requirements? But we can treat Qualifications as a section. Also there is "Approved Locations" and salary range. That could be Pay and maybe Schedule? There's schedule: "Consistent with the firm's hybrid work model, this position will require in-person attendance at least three days per week, either at a GT office or client site." That's schedule info. Also there is location: "Approved Locations This position may be based in any Grant Thornton office location within the United States." That's location but not a required heading; we could include under About the role or maybe as a separate section? Not required headings list includes Pay, Schedule, Benefits. We have Pay: base salary range $187,500 - $312,500. So we need a Pay section. Benefits: there is a Benefits section later with description. Also there is mention of benefits for interns etc but we should keep the substantive benefits description: "We understand that your needs, responsibilities and experiences are different, and we think that’s a good thing. That’s why we support you with personalized and comprehensive benefits that recognize and empower all the identities, roles and aspirations that make you, well, you. For an overview of our benefit offerings, please visit: https://www.grantthornton.com/careers/rewards-and-benefits" plus some details about interns/seasonal employees but those are not relevant to this role? Might be considered boilerplate? The instruction: Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. The benefits section includes some generic text but also specific link. We should keep the substantive benefits description. The intern/seasonal employee details might be considered boilerplate? They are specific to interns/seasonal employees, not relevant to this director role. Might be considered not needed. But we could keep them as they are part of benefits description. However they are duplicated? Not exactly. Might be okay to keep but they are not directly about the role. Safer to keep only the generic benefits description and the link. Schedule: we have hybrid work model requiring in-person attendance at least three days per week. That's schedule. Also there is "About Us", "About The Team" etc. Those could be considered About the role? Might be extra but we could include under About the role or maybe separate sections like About the company? Not in allowed headings list. The instruction: Use

        for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It says e.g., implying those are examples but we should only use those headings when posting has real specific content for it. So we could also include "About the role" and maybe "About the company" not allowed. Better to stick to those headings. Thus sections: - About the role (prose) - Responsibilities (list) - Qualifications (list) (maybe combine Requirements and Qualifications) - Benefits (list? Actually prose with link) - Pay (prose with salary range) - Schedule (prose with hybrid work expectation) We might also include Skills? Not explicitly listed; there are skills mentioned in qualifications but we could put under Qualifications. No separate Skills needed. We must not repeat job title as heading. Good. We must preserve ALL substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to include all bullet points from responsibilities, qualifications, etc. Let's extract bullets. Responsibilities: Under "Americas Integration Delivery": - Provide oversight and accountability for integration delivery across the Americas portfolio, including current and future markets added through acquisition, from pre-close planning through Day 1, stabilization, and transition to business ownership. - Lead and develop the program managers responsible for the day-to-day management of individual integrations, ensuring clear ownership, consistent execution, and timely escalation. - Directly manage selected integrations based on transaction size, complexity, risk, or resourcing needs. - Review and challenge integration plans, milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, and status reporting across the portfolio. - Establish expectations for governance, workstream coordination, decision-making, and executive reporting, and ensure program managers apply them consistently. - Manage priorities, capacity, and cross-program dependencies across concurrent integrations, adjusting assignments and sequencing as needed. - Coach program managers through complex stakeholder, execution, and escalation issues while holding them accountable for delivery. - Ensure consistent use of IMO playbooks, program-management tools, RAID logs, templates, and reporting standards across all Americas integrations. Under "Regional Team Leadership": - Lead, coach, and develop the Americas integration team, including program managers, change management, and program support resources. - Set clear expectations for delivery quality, ownership, escalation, and stakeholder management across the team. - Assign program managers and other resources to integrations based on transaction complexity, risk, timing, and capacity. - Review portfolio demand and team capacity, identifying resource gaps and adjusting priorities or external support as needed. - Build a scalable regional delivery capability through hiring, onboarding, development, performance management, and succession planning. - Direct third-party advisors and contractors, ensuring their work is integrated with the internal team and aligned with IMO standards. Under "Global IMO Alignment and Governance": - Serve as the primary Americas representative within the Global IMO, providing visibility into portfolio status, risks, resource needs, and upcoming integration activity. - Participate in global governance and operating cadences, escalating material risks, issues, and decisions with clear recommendations. - Translate Global IMO standards, tools, and playbooks into practical regional execution requirements. - Provide Americas feedback and lessons learned to improve global integration methods, templates, and reporting. - Coordinate with global integration, communications, change management, and other shared resources to align support across the Americas portfolio. - Ensure regional practices remain consistent with Global IMO standards while adapting execution for transaction-specific and market requirements as the Americas portfolio evolves. Now Qualifications section: - Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree is preferred but not required. - 12+ years of experience leading complex, cross-functional programs, including significant experience supporting or leading M&A integrations from pre-close planning through Day 1, stabilization, and transition to business ownership. - Experience overseeing multiple concurrent transactions or large-scale programs is strongly preferred. - Experience leading, coaching, and developing program managers and integration professionals, and managing internal resources, external advisors, and third-party service providers. - Ability to directly manage complex or high-risk integrations when required. - Experience establishing integration governance, managing cross-functional workstreams, and overseeing milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, decisions, and executive reporting. - Strong executive communication, judgment, problem-solving, and stakeholder-management skills, with demonstrated ability to influence senior executives, functional leaders, and acquired-entity leadership in a matrixed environment. - Ability to manage competing priorities and operate effectively across multiple transactions, business units, and markets within an evolving Americas portfolio. - Professional-services experience and familiarity with member-firm structures are preferred, but not required. - Ability to travel across the Americas as required to support current and future integrations. Success Measures: maybe could be considered part of Qualifications? But it's separate. Could be considered Requirements? The instruction: Use headings for Requirements, Qualifications, Skills. We have Qualifications; we could also have Requirements (maybe success measures). But we could incorporate success measures into Qualifications as they are about performance expectations. However to preserve all substantive info, we should include them somewhere. Could add a section "Requirements" for success measures. But the instruction says prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. So maybe we can merge success measures into Qualifications as they are also expectations. But they are not qualifications per se; they are success measures. However we could treat them as part of Qualifications. The instruction says we must not invent or summarize away detail. If we merge, we still preserve detail. It's okay. But we also have "Approved Locations" and salary range. Salary range goes to Pay. Location maybe could be part of About the role or maybe we could add a separate section "Location"? Not in allowed headings. Could incorporate into About the role. Schedule: hybrid work model requiring in-person attendance at least three days per week. Benefits: we have a paragraph: "We understand that your needs, responsibilities and experiences are different, and we think that’s a good thing. That’s why we support you with personalized and comprehensive benefits that recognize and empower all the identities, roles and aspirations that make you, well, you. For an overview of our benefit offerings, please visit: https://www.grantthornton.com/careers/rewards-and-benefits". Also there is details about interns/seasonal employees but those are not relevant to this role; we could keep them? They are specific to interns/seasonal employees, not to this director role. Might be considered boilerplate for benefits but still part of benefits section. 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        Responsibilities

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        Qualifications

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        Benefits

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        Pay

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