Sr. IT M&A Integration Program Manager
About the role
Trex is seeking a seasoned Senior IT M&A Integration Program Manager to establish and lead the enterprise IT capability supporting mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and strategic business integrations. This role is responsible for developing and owning the Trex IT M&A Playbook and leading the planning, governance, and execution of all technology integration activities across the entire M&A lifecycle.
Responsibilities
- Build and own the enterprise IT M&A Playbook, including designing enterprise IT integration methodologies, governance, templates, checklists, and stage gates.
- Lead technology due diligence, assessing enterprise architecture and technology maturity, evaluating infrastructure, applications, cybersecurity, networks, engineering platforms, cloud environments, and data landscapes.
- Lead enterprise integration planning, developing and maintaining the integrated technology master plan covering every phase of execution.
- Lead Day 1 readiness, ensuring technology readiness for transaction close while maintaining uninterrupted business operations.
- Orchestrate enterprise technology integration, leading execution across all technology workstreams, including enterprise architecture, infrastructure, cloud platforms, cybersecurity, networks, identity & access management, ERP platforms, CRM platforms, manufacturing systems, and more.
- Provide program governance, managing integrated project schedules, facilitating executive steering committees, managing RAID logs, milestones, budgets, dependencies, and executive dashboards.
Leadership Expectations
The Senior IT M&A Integration Program Manager serves as the central technology integration leader for each transaction, leading cross-functional teams through influence, holding technology workstream leaders accountable for commitments, facilitating executive decision-making, challenging assumptions and identifying integration risks early, building alignment across business and technology organizations, maintaining transparency through disciplined governance and executive communication, and fostering a culture of planning, accountability, and continuous improvement.
Requirements
- The ideal candidate has personally led multiple enterprise technology integrations supporting acquisitions valued between $50 million and $200 million+, preferably within manufacturing, industrial, building products, or distribution organizations.
Qualifications
The successful candidate will have the ability to orchestrate dozens of concurrent workstreams spanning business processes, technology platforms, applications, infrastructure, cybersecurity, engineering, data, analytics, and organizational change, and will serve as the enterprise integration leader for IT, partnering with business and technology leaders to ensure acquisitions are integrated efficiently, consistently, and with minimal business disruption.