M&a Integration Manager

**Aspire Software, a Valsoft Company is seeking an exceptional leader to join a growing portfolio of software businesses as an M&A Integration Manager.**

We are on a mission to hire talented entrepreneurial spirit driven people ready to take on the challenges of rapid organic growth. The M&A Integration Manager will work closely with the executive team as an effective project manager to drive collaboration across cross-functional stakeholders to quickly deliver on shareholder value. Participating in the due diligence process to help formulate an integration plan tailored to the specific goals of each acquisition.

**Here is a little window into our company**: Aspire Software, an operating division of Valsoft Corporation, is a software company that acquires and develops vertical market software companies, enabling each business to deliver the best mission-critical solutions for customers in their respective industry or niche that include (but not limited to) the Hospitality sector, Food and Beverage, Auto Rental Services, Marina and Marine Management, Golf Course Management and Logistics.

Ultimately, the M&A Integration Manager is responsible for the successful execution of the Post Acquisition Integration Plan. This role reports directly to the VP & Managing Director of the Portfolio based in Europe.

**What your day will look like**:

- Involvement across the M&A Transaction including due diligence, integration planning, and executing against post-transaction integration activities
- Establish a scalable integration playbook that allows for repeatable processes, budget, and integration activities regardless of vertical and is updated based upon lessons learned
- Collaborate with functional stakeholders to create and maintain integration checklists and activities
- Develop, track and report on acquisition KPIs and metrics to key stakeholders
- Identify risks associated with integration activities and create/execute actions to reduce or eliminate these risks
- Drive rapid executive decision making
- Actively participate in continuous improvement activities post integration by collaborating with stakeholders and driving execution
- Translate company vision and mission into specific goals, priorities, and responsibilities for departments, individual teams, and team members of the acquired business
- Act as central point of contact and source of truth for internal and acquired company stakeholders related to integration communications and questions

**About you**:

- Travel required - up to 30%
- BA/BS required; MBA preferred
- Exceptional project management skills
- Strong communication and writing skills
- Confident in leading meetings and skilled presenter
- Experience working with global virtual teams
- Ability to manage multiple workstreams across multiple projects
- Proven entrepreneurial spirit and pace-setter traits
- Must be a European citizen or a Permanent Resident.
- Language: English (fluent) and another language would be an asset (German/Spanish/French)
- 3-5 years of cross-functional project management experience in the software industry

There is room for career growth, and we want you to feel like part of the team

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate on the basis of; disability, race, ancestry, place of origin, color, ethnic origin, citizenship, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, record of offences, marital status or family status.
- Who is Valsoft?_
- Valsoft Corporation focuses on growing and acquiring vertical software businesses that provide mission-critical solutions within multiple niche-markets. Headquartered in Montreal, Canada, the company takes a decentralized approach on building software verticals with a keen attention to people retention and technology profitability. Valsoft HQ drives merger & acquisitions worldwide and manages operational best practices throughout its four divisional groups and software vertical sub-companies._
- As a rapidly growing company, Valsoft is constantly seeking forward thinking and self-starting team players. Our motto is to be humble, stay hungry. Being a high-performance environment, to be a Valsofter means to never settle and constantly thirst for success. Join the team_