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The primary purpose of this role is to drive organization readiness and value realization by making strategic and hands-on contributions to the Integration Management Office (IMO) during mergers, acquisitions, integrations, carve-outs, and separation initiatives. The role is focused on ensuring seamless business continuity, accelerating integration outcomes, and enabling the successful transition to the target operating model.
Organization Readiness for Post-Deal Integration:
• Translate the deal of vision, strategic objectives, and value creation goals into a structured organization readiness roadmap.
• Partner with business leaders and the Integration Management Office to define integration principles, decision frameworks, and governance mechanisms that guide execution.
• Design and validate the target operating model, organizational structure, governance framework, and leadership alignment for the combined entity.
• Assess organizational readiness requirements across Day 1, Day 100, and future state milestones, ensuring effective transition planning and risk mitigation.
• Develop and execute comprehensive Day 1 and Day 100 readiness plans, checklists, milestones, and workplans to support successful integration outcomes.
• Contribute to the Integration Management Office by driving end-to-end program governance, stakeholder alignment, issue resolution, dependency management, and workstream execution.
Integration Support for Post-Deal Activities:
• Support the planning, mobilization, and execution of Program, Integration, and Transformation Management Office activities.
• Lead readiness assessments and execution planning for critical Day 1 and Day 100 milestones.
• Enable cross-functional coordination to ensure timely delivery of integration objectives and realization of deal synergies.
Carve-Out and Separation Management:
• Develop separation strategies and assess organizational readiness to support successful carve-out and divestiture transactions.
• Evaluate interim and future-state operating models, organizational structures, governance requirements, and transition approaches.
• Establish Day 1 and Day 100 separation plans, readiness checklists, and execution roadmaps.
• Support the Separation Management Office (SMO) in coordinating workstreams, managing interdependencies, and driving execution excellence.
• Assess Transitional Service Agreement (TSA) requirements, develop TSA schedules, and define TSA exit strategies to enable a smooth and sustainable separation.
Diligence and Transformation:
• Support strategic and operational due diligence efforts to evaluate the commercial viability, value creation potential, and execution feasibility of complex transactions.
• Drive the identification and realization of post-deal consolidation, integration, separation, and transformation opportunities to accelerate business outcomes.
• Leverage industry-leading practices, proven methodologies, to design robust integration and separation strategies tailored to transaction objectives
• Develop and execute comprehensive functional integration plans across R&D, GSC, Commercial, Finance, IT, HR, and other core business functions, ensuring readiness for Day 1, Day 100, and long-term target-state operations.
• Partner with stakeholders to support the successful delivery of transformation initiatives, maximize synergy realization, and enable sustainable business performance.
Experience and Skills
• 15+ years of experience in M&A transactions, including due diligence, integration, carve-out, separation, and post-deal value realization.
• Proven expertise in integration and separation planning across one or more functions, such as Finance, IT, HR, R&D, or Supply Chain.
• Hands-on experience with global acquisitions across the US and EMEA, including sign-to-close, Day 1 readiness, and post-close execution.
• Experience in TSA design, structuring, governance, and execution management.
• Strong programme management capability, including governance design, multi-workstream coordination, risk management, and dependency tracking.
• Ability to leverage data, analytics, and GenAI-enabled tools to improve delivery efficiency, insight generation, and decision-making.
• Experience working in global delivery or distributed team models, with prior consulting experience across strategy, operations, or transformation preferred.
• Exceptional stakeholder management, executive presence, and communication skills.
• Strategic thinker with strong execution bias, accountability, and the ability to operate at pace in ambiguous environments.
• Flexibility to travel as required by the business.
Skills
Why GSK?
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GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive. We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases – to impact health at scale.
People and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make, so we’re committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. Our culture of being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how, together, we deliver for patients, shareholders and our people.
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