Senior M&A Integration Manager
About Us
For more than 40 years, Reworld has been a leader in sustainable waste solutions, providing customers with innovative solutions that help them achieve carbon-negative outcomes. We partner with businesses by offering cutting-edge engineering and solutions to reduce, reuse, recycle, and recover value from waste streams, helping customers meet or exceed their sustainability goals. Our ecosystem of technology, facilities, and partnerships differentiates us, trusted by the world’s largest organizations to reimagine waste management for a smarter, more sustainable world.
About The Role
The Senior Integration Manager is responsible for end-to-end integration governance and value realization across acquisitions, ensuring disciplined execution through a tollgate-based integration model. This role leads cross-functional integration efforts, owns synergy delivery and risk management, and establishes a repeatable integration capability aligned with operational excellence principles. They operate at both strategic and execution levels, ensuring integrations deliver business outcomes—not just task completion.
Responsibilities
- Integration Strategy & Planning
- Ensure integration strategic priorities align with deal value drivers
- Lead pre-close integration planning including synergy identification and risk assessment
- Establish Day 1, 0–90, and 90–180 plans across all functions
- Ensure alignment between deal model assumptions and execution roadmap
- Integration Governance & Tollgate Leadership
- Own and enforce the integration governance model and decision framework
- Prepare and lead tollgate reviews with executive leadership
- Ensure clear decision rights, escalation paths, and accountability structures
- Drive adherence to integration cadence (daily/weekly/monthly operating rhythm)
- Value Realization & Synergy Delivery
- Own end-to-end synergy tracking and realization (cost, revenue, operational improvements)
- Ensure clear ownership of value initiatives across functions
- Implement value tracking dashboards and reporting cadence
- Proactively identify risks to value capture and implement mitigation plans
- Cross-Functional Integration Execution
- Lead integration across Finance, HR, IT, Operations, Commercial, and EHS
- Remove barriers and resolve cross-functional conflicts
- Ensure alignment between functional plans and enterprise objectives
- Drive Day 1 readiness and operational continuity
- Change Management & Communication
- Develop and execute integration communication strategy
- Ensure consistent messaging across leadership, employees, and stakeholders
- Drive culture integration and employee engagement
- Minimize disruption and reduce attrition risk during integration
- Integration Capability Building
- Support building and continuously improve the integration playbook and tools
- Standardize and continuously improve L2/L3 integration checklists, templates, and dashboards
- Capture and institutionalize lessons learned from integrations
- Stakeholder Management
- Act as primary interface to align different functions toward achieving integration goals
- Partner with functional leaders to ensure ownership and accountability
- Influence without authority across complex organizational structures
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in a related field is strongly preferred; candidates with relevant experience may be considered
- 8+ years of experience in M&A integration, operations, or consulting
- Proven track record of leading complex, cross-functional integrations
- Strong experience with value creation and synergy delivery
- Experience operating in industrial, energy, or operational environments
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in waste management, energy, or material processing
- Familiarity with tollgate or stage-gate operating models
- Background in operational excellence systems
Benefits
In addition to salary, this role is eligible for a comprehensive benefits package, including:
- Medical, prescription drug, vision, and dental plans
- 401(k) plan with up to 7% company match
- Paid parental leave
- Paid time off and paid holidays
- Company-paid life and AD&D insurance
- Short- and long-term disability benefits
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Educational assistance
For more details, visit Reworld Careers Benefits Page.
Pay
The pay range for the primary location of this position is $136,600.00 - $195,300.00 USD per annum. The final salary offered will be determined based on factors including experience, education, geographic location, skills, competencies, travel requirements, and/or union contracts (if applicable).