Space Experts Wealth Advisor - General Manager/AGM/DGM/Senior Manager - Acquisition Success - Post Merger Integration

General Manager/Assistant General Manager/Deputy General Manager/Senior Manager - Acquisition Success - (Post Merger Integration)
Success Team - Mumbai
Location: Mumbai
Experience: 8-12 years (minimum 5 years in PMI) in management consulting firms (MBBK/Big 4) and/OR in PMI roles in IT services firms (Accenture, Wipro, Infosys, Cognizant)
Type: Full-time
Role Overview:
The Acquisition Success team will lead enterprise post-merger integration, ensuring value realization across strategic acquisition portfolio. Reporting in the office of Chief Strategy officer (CSO), this team will establish integration governance, standardize methodologies, and orchestrate cross-functional execution from pre-sign diligence through post-close transformation. The roles demand strategic vision to translate deal theses into executable roadmaps and operational rigor to drive synergy capture, operational continuity, and cultural alignment.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Integration Governance & Leadership
- Establish Acquisition Success team as integration center of excellence with governance frameworks, decision rights, and executive reporting cadence
- Design integration operating model covering roles, responsibilities, and collaboration across corporate functions and business units
- Serve as primary integration authority, providing direct counsel to CSO and executives on integration approach, risk mitigation, and value realization
2. Integration Planning & Execution
- Develop comprehensive integration playbook spanning pre-sign diligence, Day 1 readiness, and post-close execution
- Lead end-to-end integration planning, translating deal rationale into detailed blueprints with milestones, interdependencies, and success criteria
- Orchestrate functional workstream execution (Financial consolidation, Backend integration, Shared services optimization, commercial integration, delivery model harmonization, HR, Legal, Operations, Marketing and procurement integration) ensuring operational continuity
3. Synergy Realization & Value Capture
- Partner with deal teams to validate synergy assumptions, identify value opportunities, and assess integration complexity
- Develop detailed synergy plans by category (revenue, cost, margin) with clear ownership, phasing, and tracking mechanisms

- Establish GTM integration priorities, rules of engagement and joint ways of working. Plan for revenue synergy realization to unlock growth opportunities.
- Develop account wise view for cross selling.
- Assess cost synergy potential and realization timelines across delivery and SGA costs. Conduct peer benchmarking, gap analysis, functional deep-dive to arrive at potential initiatives and align and govern them with stakeholders
- Design KPI frameworks and dashboards to monitor synergy achievement against deal business case
4. Program Governance & Stakeholder Management
- Design governance structures including steering committees, executive forums, and workstream cadence
- Prepare board-level presentations on integration portfolio performance, synergy progress, risks, and strategic recommendations
- Manage relationships with external integration consultants and advisors
5. Risk Management & Business Continuity
- Identify, assess, and mitigate integration risks including customer attrition, talent retention, and technology failures
- Implement business continuity protocols to protect revenue and maintain service delivery
- Ensure legal, statutory, audit, and regulatory compliance throughout integration lifecycle
6. Change Leadership & Cultural Integration
- Partner with HR on organizational design, talent retention, compensation harmonization, and leadership onboarding
- Define and execute stakeholder communication strategies for employees, customers, partners, and investors
- Lead cultural integration initiatives establishing shared values and unified organizational identity
7. Capability Building & Team Development
- Build and mentor high-performing integration team including functional leads and project managers
- Document integration best practices and lessons learned to enhance organizational maturity
- Foster integration mindset by embedding integration thinking into M&A strategy and due diligence
Qualifications:
Required:
- MBA from top-tier institution
- 8-12 years of total experience, with 6-8 years in M&A integration, corporate development, or management consulting (Big 4/MBBK)
- Minimum 5 years in roles managing multi-geography, multi-functional integrations; Experience in Services sector is a plus
- Deep expertise in integration methodologies, IMO structures, synergy tracking, and program management
- Demonstrated success establishing integration capabilities in high-growth, services-oriented environments
- Strong financial acumen with experience in synergy modeling, business case development, and performance tracking
- Proven ability to influence C-suite executives and board members without direct authority
Preferred:
- IT services, technology consulting, or professional services experience with understanding of global delivery models
- International integration experience across Europe, North America, and APAC
- Certifications in program management (PMP), change management, or M&A integration
- Experience with ERP consolidation, cloud migration, and digital platform integration
- Shape inorganic growth journey leading transformational integrations
- Partner directly with CSO, C-suite, and Board on enterprise-defining M&A initiatives
- Work at intersection of AI, technology consulting, and digital transformation
- Accelerate career in strategic leadership with global integration exposure
- Access leadership development, executive coaching, and global rotation opportunities
- Industry-leading compensation with performance-linked incentives and comprehensive benefits.