Manager, M&a Integration

Salesforce Salesforce · Enterprise · San Francisco, CA +2

Manager on the M&A Integration team within Corporate Development at Salesforce, focusing on strategy, planning, and execution of acquisition integrations. The role involves orchestrating cross-functional efforts, driving decision-making, managing change, and ensuring seamless integration experiences. While the company heavily emphasizes AI and uses AI tools in recruiting, this specific role is in M&A integration and not directly building or researching AI models.

What you'd actually do

  1. Support the development and execution of the acquisition integration strategy. Partner with a large cross-functional team to orchestrate impactful integration planning and execution throughout the deal lifecycle.
  2. Cultivate and leverage strong, trusted cross-functional relationships to drive alignment, skillfully negotiate complex trade-offs, and navigate challenges essential to meeting all integration objectives.
  3. Apply critical and strategic thinking to proactively challenge assumptions, generate innovative solutions, and enable agile decision-making. Take calculated risks to accelerate progress and ensure the achievement of key business objectives.
  4. Drive the development and delivery of tailored change management programs that accelerate the acquired businesses' connection, productivity, and overall performance.
  5. Drive transparency to program performance through stakeholder and sponsor updates to communicate progress, surface issues and opportunities, champion team wins, and use feedback and measurement to continuously adjust and remove barriers.

Skills

Required

  • 5-7 years experience in consulting, corporate development, or similar domain leading complex, large-scale programs
  • experience managing teams and stakeholders across diverse geographies and time zones
  • Very strong writing and presenting skills
  • ability to synthesize complex topics for senior level stakeholders
  • Broad understanding of M&A (acquisition lifecycle, integration planning, and strategic considerations) and SaaS business (Go to Market, Product, and Operations)
  • Proven ability to lead through ambiguity and manage high-stakes projects
  • Degree or equivalent relevant experience required

Nice to have

  • Salesforce.com organization and product knowledge is a plus

What the JD emphasized

  • complex integration and change management priorities
  • orchestrate large-scale, cross-functional M&A efforts
  • leading through ambiguity
  • strategic thinker
  • drive agile decision-making
  • navigate ambiguity
  • embrace change
  • foster a high-performance team culture
  • integration strategy
  • integration planning and execution
  • complex trade-offs
  • integration objectives
  • critical and strategic thinking
  • innovative solutions
  • agile decision-making
  • key business objectives
  • change management programs
  • program performance
  • stakeholder and sponsor updates
  • complex, cross-functional business efforts
  • work under deadlines
  • juggle multiple priorities
  • work proactively and productively in the face of ambiguity or uncertainty
  • meeting leadership and facilitation skills
  • agile decision-making, even with incomplete information
  • team-oriented leadership skills
  • identify, frame, and confront risks and issues
  • make recommendations for mitigations or resolutions
  • Solid intuition for business
  • Broad understanding of M&A
  • Proven ability to lead through ambiguity
  • manage high-stakes projects