Who We Are:
NFP, an Aon company, is a multiple Best Places to Work award winner in Business Insurance. We are an organization of consultative advisors and problem solvers. We help companies and individuals around the globe address their most significant risk, workforce, wealth management and retirement challenges through custom solutions and a people-first approach. To learn more, please visit: https://www.NFP.com.
Job Summary:
As part of the team that integrates newly acquired firms into NFP, the Director, M&A Integration will be responsible for overall operating platform deployment and act as the primary point of contact for all conversion-related activities, issues, risks and outstanding questions.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Manage deployment plan and plan resources (i.e. project management) – including when to engage with cross-program work streams to complete tasks
- Actively engage with the Integration and Operations Lead and provide status reporting as required
- Work with business to identify, connect with, and manage local end-user key stakeholders and address their needs, concerns and questions
- Manage steering committee meetings and conversion communications with key corporate and end-user stakeholders
- Own the end-to-end implementation lifecycle. This includes building detailed project schedules, tracking milestones, managing risks, and ensuring the project launches on time.
- Liaise with corporate governance entities for operational and procedural review and decisions
- Escalate risks and issues through defined governance processes and manage to resolution
- Integrate with other platform system teams to ensure that end-users in their deployment are ready for conversion
- Travel required
Knowledge, Skills, and/or Abilities:
- Full life cycle software implementation (scope control, budgeting, estimating and resource management)
- Ability to propose creative operational solutions to challenging problems and communicate business concepts and specifications clearly and efficiently
- Ability to work with a variety of customers from different areas of the business in large and small groups.
- Adaptable to various work settings and able to serve in an advisory/leadership role
- Strong personal initiative and ability to execute with minimal oversight
- Experience wearing many hats while working in a dynamic environment
- Ability to drive projects, establish priorities and meet critical deadlines
- Attention to detail, professional presentation skills and ability to work with complex projects
Education and/or Experience:
- 5+ years of experience in management or technology consulting or other relevant project management experience
- Bachelor's degree
- Insurance and/o