Director of Integration Leader, Corporate Development

Title:  Director of Integration Leader, Corporate Development - 64845
Location:  Mountain View, CA

Company Overview:
Intuit Inc. (NASDAQ: INTU) is the leading provider of financial software and Web-based services for consumers, small businesses and accounting professionals. Our flagship products and services ---including Quicken, QuickBooks, and TurboTax --- simplify personal finance, small business management and payroll processing, tax preparation and filing. Founded in 1983, Intuit has annual revenues of about $2.7 billion and reaches over 25 million customers with 8,000 employees in 13 states and four countries. Intuit's revenues have more than doubled in the last 5 years. Fortune Magazine recognized Intuit as Americas Most Admired Software Company and one of the 100 Best Companies to Work For in 2006.

Group Overview:
Join Intuit's fast-paced Corporate Strategy and Corporate Development team where energy, teamwork and contribution are highly valued. Be involved and drive Intuit's key strategic initiatives, acquisitions, equity investments, alliances and divestitures on a global basis.


Primary Responsibilities:

Reporting to the Vice President of Corporate Development, this individual will be responsible for leading pre- and post-acquisition integration activities that support the growth of Intuit.

Responsibilities Include::
- Managing the end-to-end integration process from creation of the initial integration plan, to execution of the tactical onboarding, to providing a clear roadmap for ongoing ownership, milestones and timelines required to achieve deal specific value and synergies
- Ensuring that the right integration strategy is developed per the intent of the deal
- Leading a virtual cross-functional integration team consisting of operational experts, business unit representatives and newly acquired employees within a complex, matrixed corporate environment
- Presenting integration updates to Senior Executive Management
- Providing thought leadership and analytical rigor to identify operational and integration issues pre- and post- acquisition, developing solutions and driving consensus across multiple stakeholders
- Establishing metrics and methods for measuring progress against the stated deal objectives.
- Developing talent and helping to build an effective learning organization
 
• Participating in pre-deal due diligence and decision making
• Ensuring that the right integration strategy and measures for integration success are developed based on the intent of the deal
• Partnering with business leadership to oversee the integration
• Managing the end-to-end integration process from creation of the initial integration plan with milestones and timelines required to achieve deal specific value and synergies, to execution of the tactical on-boarding, to providing a clear roadmap for ongoing ownership to complete the integration
• Leading a virtual cross-functional integration team consisting of operational experts, business unit and functional representatives, and newly acquired employees within a complex, matrix corporate environment
• Providing thought leadership and analytical rigor to identify operational and integration issues pre- and post- acquisition, developing solutions, and driving decision making and escalation across multiple stakeholders
• Driving completion of Day One must-do activities in parallel with progress on long-term integration activity
• Co-presenting, with business unit leaders, regular integration updates to Senior Executive Management
• Developing talent and working within Intuit’s learning organization culture

Qualifications :
We expect individuals to exhibit a broad set of skills including a keen sense of strategic thinking and rigorous analytics, solid written and verbal communications ability, courage with decisiveness to act, influencing skills, inspirational leadership, and understanding stakeholder needs. It is essential that the individual selected for this position be able to quickly establish rapport, credibility, trust, and respect throughout the organization at all levels, and be viewed as a team player.

Basic Requirements:

- - at least 5 years of direct integrations experience. 

- - An MBA from a top 10 institution and a track record of strong academic performance.

- - 7-10 years of operational/consulting/product management experience with
- - Track record of success integrating people and business processes is essential. 
- - Must have experience designing and implementing acquisition integration processes for large companies with multiple acquisitions per year. 
- - Must be able to blend strategic advisory with strong process and analytical skills.
- - Ability to be an influential business partner who can lead through influence and garner support from cross-functional executives to ensure effective and efficient integration

Specific Traits:
- - Diplomatic and persuasive
- - Intelligent and quick witted
- - Well developed business judgment
- - Solution first thinking with client service mentality
- - Proactive, self starter, driven
- - Strong problem-solving analytical orientation
- - Ability to structure and negotiate a transaction from inception through integration
- - Excellent facilitation skills
- - Effective management of high-performing teams
- - Strong written and verbal business communication skills
- - Non-political, communicates effectively at all levels
- - Team oriented and collaborative
- - Strong project management skills
- - Detail oriented and extremely organized, with proven ability to establish priorities and achieve results
- - Passion for excellence and the desire to have a significant impact on the business

If you have the above qualifications, feel free to e-mail but please also apply on-line via http://www.intuit.apply2jobs.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=mExternal.showJob&RID=64845  so the Hiring Manager/hiring team can view your information.