The posting
A position at White Cap isn’t your ordinary job. You’ll work in an exciting and diverse environment, meet interesting people, and have a variety of career opportunities.
The White Cap family is committed to Building Trust on Every Job. We do this by being deeply knowledgeable, fully capable, and always dependable, and our associates are the driving force behind this commitment.
Job Summary
Leads the end-to-end integration of acquired companies into White Cap’s branch operations by establishing integration strategy, governance, accountability, and performance visibility from diligence through sustainable operation. Builds trusted relationships with acquired-company leaders, aligns field and functional stakeholders, protects customers and associates throughout the transition, and delivers the customer, talent, safety, operational, and financial outcomes established in the deal thesis.
Major Tasks, Responsibilities and Key Accountabilities
•Leads enterprise integration strategy and establishes integrated plans, milestones, dependencies, stage gates, governance routines, decision rights, and measures of integration health.
•Assesses operational diligence findings, integration readiness, business risks, resource requirements, and transition needs before close and throughout the integration lifecycle.
•Builds trusted relationships with acquired-company leaders and communicates clear, transparent expectations, decisions, progress, and business impacts throughout the transition.
•Coordinates commitments across branch operations, field leadership, and corporate functions, clarifies ownership, resolves dependencies, and maintains accountability for timely and dependable execution.
•Drives operating alignment across systems, safety expectations, talent processes, customer experience, performance routines, and business practices while protecting continuity and service.
•Tracks synergy expectations, sales lift, financial commitments, and customer, associate, safety, and operational outcomes for 18 to 24 months after acquisition and initiates corrective actions when performance is at risk.
•Leads recovery planning, executive escalation, integration-exit recommendations, and the sustainable transfer of ongoing responsibilities to appropriate operational and functional leaders.
•Leads, coaches, and develops assigned associates, participates in employment decisions, and supports performance, engagement, accountability, continuous improvement, and business results.
•Performs other duties as assigned.
Nature and Scope
- Problems are complex and may be defined by higher level leadership. Solutions require high strategic level analysis and investigation.
- Drives strategy and methodology and serves as the subject-matter expert for policies and practices. Decides how to achieve planned results within an organization's plans, policies, and guidelines.
- Manages via multiple layers OR directly supervises a staff of professional individual contributors at the senior or technical advisor level. Directs budgetary responsibility at the enterprise level or for two or more businesses across the enterprise.
Work Environment
- Typically located in a comfortable indoor area. There may be regular exposure to mild physical discomfort from factors, such as dust, fumes or odors, temperature extremes, loud noise, strong drafts, or bright lights.
- Frequent periods are spent standing or sitting in the same location with some opportunity to move about. Occasionally there may be a requirement to stoop or lift light material or equipment (typically less than 8 pounds).
- Travel requirement of approximately 20–50% for site assessments, team meetings, and project implementation.
Education and Experience
- Typically requires BS/BA in a related discipline. Generally 9+ years of experience in a related field, including several years in a management/supervisory capacity.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in business, operations, finance, supply chain, organizational leadership, or a related discipline.
- 7 years' progressive experience in operations, acquisition integration, transformation, business development, or complex cross-functional program leadership.
- Demonstrated experience translating acquisition or business strategies into integrated plans, measurable value commitments, governance routines, and executive-level reporting.
- Demonstrated financial and operational acumen, including experience evaluating business cases, synergies, performance measures, risks, and corrective actions.
- Demonstrated people-leadership and stakeholder-influence skills, including experience developing associates, coordinating leaders across functions, and guiding organizations through significant change.
- Experience leading acquisition diligence, integration, transformation, or comparable enterprise change initiatives.
- Experience in multi-location distribution, construction supply, industrial services, or a related operating environment.
- Knowledge of White Cap’s branch operations, field organization, operating model, and business systems.
- Experience developing repeatable integration capabilities, performance scorecards, stage-gate processes, and continuous-improvement practices.
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