Program Manager – Mergers and Acquisitions

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Assist in the development of the Enterprise Transformation Office by establishing governance, executive reporting, portfolio transparency, delivery methodologies, standards, and operational rhythms.

• Oversee enterprise mergers, acquisitions, and strategic integration projects from due diligence to post-close stabilization and operational transition as needed.

• Act as the principal program management lead for all Integration Management Office (IMO) initiatives, collaborating with the Enterprise Transformation PMO Lead on enterprise priorities and executive governance.

• Create detailed integration strategies, execution roadmaps, governance models, workstream structures, and comprehensive integration plans that support strategic transactions.

• Facilitate cross-functional integration efforts. Collaborate with executive leadership and functional workstream heads to define integration goals, set priorities, coordinate deliverables, resolve issues, manage dependencies, and ensure organizational alignment throughout the transaction lifecycle.

• Develop and maintain integrated project timelines, milestone schedules, RAID logs, dependency trackers, decision registers, and executive dashboards.

• Produce high-quality PowerPoint presentations, Steering Committee materials, Board updates, executive readouts, integration scorecards, business cases, governance documentation, and executive communications.

• Oversee integration budgets, timelines, scope, risks, issues, resource utilization, and cross-functional dependencies while identifying strategies for mitigation.

• Organize enterprise change management activities to support organizational transitions, executive communications, stakeholder engagement, employee readiness, and training.

• Create repeatable integration playbooks, governance templates, standard operating procedures, lessons learned, documentation, and knowledge transfer materials.

• Balance strategic leadership with detailed execution while taking personal responsibility for high-quality deliverables without dedicated project coordination or administrative support.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 8 years of experience leading complex mergers and acquisitions, enterprise integration, program management, strategic transformation, or management consulting in large, matrixed organizations.

• Preferred experience in Oil & Gas, Energy Services, Oilfield Equipment Manufacturing, Industrial Manufacturing, Utilities, Midstream, and Downstream sectors.

• Capability to comprehend intricate business operations, identify integration risks and dependencies, establish executive priorities, bring order to ambiguous situations, meet challenging deadlines, and translate strategic acquisition objectives into actionable plans.

• Experience in developing and maintaining integrated project plans, executive dashboards, governance frameworks, RAID logs, milestone trackers, dependency registers, executive scorecards, and portfolio reporting for complex enterprise programs.

• Proven ability to lead organizational change initiatives, including executive communications, stakeholder engagement, organizational readiness, employee transition planning, training coordination, business adoption, and change reinforcement.

• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Teams, Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, Jira, Azure DevOps, Monday.com, Planview, SharePoint, and other enterprise project management tools.

• Experience in developing executive dashboards and reporting analytics using Power BI or similar business intelligence platforms is preferred.

• Familiarity with operating in SOX-compliant, publicly traded, or regulated business environments is preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Our team is distinctive — we are passionate about our work.

• We acknowledge our employees for their contributions.

• Our culture is among the most friendly and communicative in the consulting industry.

• Sand Cherry maintains a flat organizational structure.

• We provide the opportunity to be part of a digital workforce.

• Professional career growth is one of our primary focuses.