Program Manager – Mergers and Acquisitions

Sand Cherry

M&A Program Manager leading enterprise transformation and strategic integration initiatives at Sand Cherry Associates. Working with cross-functional teams and executive leadership to drive complex M&A efforts.

Posted 7/28/2026contractRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorLead💰 $100,000 - $150,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in leading complex mergers and acquisitions, program management, and strategic transformation initiatives within large, matrixed organizations. Proficient in developing integration strategies, executive dashboards, and governance frameworks while managing organizational change and stakeholder engagement.

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Mergers And Acquisitions LeadershipProgram ManagementIntegration Strategy DevelopmentChange ManagementExecutive Dashboard Development

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Hard Skills

Program ManagementIntegration Strategy DevelopmentGovernance FrameworksProject PlanningRisk ManagementStakeholder EngagementChange ManagementBusiness Intelligence ReportingExecutive ReportingIntegration Planning

Soft Skills

LeadershipCommunicationProblem-SolvingCollaborationOrganizational Alignment

Tools & Technologies

Microsoft PowerPointMicrosoft ExcelMicrosoft ProjectJiraAzure DevOpsSmartsheetMonday.comPlanviewSharePointPower BI

Industry Keywords

Oil & GasEnergy ServicesOilfield Equipment ManufacturingIndustrial ManufacturingUtilitiesMidstreamDownstreamSOX CompliancePublicly Traded EnvironmentsRegulated Business Environments

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Azure

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Support the maturation of the Enterprise Transformation Office with governance, executive reporting, portfolio visibility, delivery methodologies, standards, and operating rhythms.
Lead enterprise mergers, acquisition, and strategic integration initiatives from due diligence through post-close stabilization and operational transition when applicable.
Serve as the primary program management lead for all Integration Management Office (IMO) activities while partnering with the Enterprise Transformation PMO Lead on enterprise priorities and executive governance.
Develop comprehensive integration strategies, execution roadmaps, governance models, workstream structures, and detailed integration plans supporting strategic transactions.
Coordinate cross-functional integration activities. Partner with executive leadership and functional workstream leaders to define integration objectives, establish priorities, coordinate deliverables, resolve issues, manage dependencies, and ensure organizational alignment throughout the transaction lifecycle.
Develop and maintain integrated project plans, milestone schedules, RAID logs, dependency trackers, decision registers, and executive dashboards.
Create executive-quality PowerPoint presentations, Steering Committee materials, Board updates, executive readouts, integration scorecards, business cases, governance documentation, and executive communications.
Monitor integration budgets, schedules, scope, risks, issues, resource utilization, and cross-functional dependencies while identifying mitigation strategies.
Coordinate enterprise change management activities supporting organizational transitions, executive communications, stakeholder engagement, employee readiness, and training.
Develop repeatable integration playbooks, governance templates, standard operating procedures, lessons learned, documentation, and knowledge transfer materials.
Balance strategic leadership with detailed execution while personally owning high-quality deliverables without dedicated project coordination or administrative support.

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years leading complex mergers and acquisitions, enterprise integration, program management, strategic transformation, or management consulting for large, matrixed organizations.
Experience in Oil & Gas, Energy Services, Oilfield Equipment Manufacturing, Industrial Manufacturing, Utilities, Midstream, Downstream is strongly preferred.
Ability to understand complex business operations, identify integration risks and dependencies, set executive priorities, bring structure to ambiguous environments, meet aggressive timelines, and translate strategic acquisition objectives into actionable plans.
Develop and maintain integrated project plans, executive dashboards, governance frameworks, RAID logs, milestone trackers, dependency registers, executive scorecards, and portfolio reporting for complex enterprise programs.
Lead organizational change initiatives including executive communications, stakeholder engagement, organizational readiness, employee transition planning, training coordination, business adoption, and change reinforcement.
Advanced proficiency with Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Teams, Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, Jira, Azure DevOps, Monday.com, Planview, SharePoint, and other enterprise project management platforms.
Experience developing executive dashboards and reporting analytics using Power BI or comparable business intelligence platforms is preferred.
Experience operating within SOX-compliant, publicly traded, or regulated business environments is preferred.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Our team is unique — we are passionate about what we do.
We recognize our employees for their contributions.
Our culture is one of the most friendly and communicative in the consulting industry.
Sand Cherry is not a top-heavy organization.
We offer the opportunity to be part of a digital workforce.
Professional career growth is one of our main priorities.