General Manager – Mergers & Acquisitions
Stord
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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About the role
- Hold operational accountability for acquired businesses by:
- Holding full operational and P&L accountability immediately post-close through transition.
- Stabilizing performance and maintaining continuity across service delivery, financial outcomes, and team execution.
- Acting as the senior operating leader for acquired leadership teams until responsibilities transition.
- Maintaining end-to-end accountability across all acquired businesses, ensuring no asset operates without clear ownership.
- Set and run execution discipline by:
- Setting and running operating rhythms, including weekly operating reviews, monthly performance reviews, and escalation forums.
- Enforcing prioritization across initiatives to balance near-term performance, transition readiness, and longer-term value creation.
- Maintaining consistent visibility into performance drivers, risks, and execution constraints across the portfolio.
- Implementing organizational, leadership, or operating changes as required to ensure disciplined execution.
- Champion cross-functional execution by:
- Applying an operating lens to the Corporate Development team during diligence and pipeline evaluation, offering perspective on leadership capability, operating maturity, and near-term business stability.
- Coordinating execution across operations, customer experience, technology, finance, and people functions within the acquired perimeter.
- Aligning operating priorities with functional partners to prevent execution gaps during periods of change.
- Serving as the primary escalation point for operational, customer, and execution issues across acquired businesses.
- Support integration readiness in close partnership with M&A Integration by:
- Working in close partnership with the M&A Integration team as integration activities are sequenced and executed.
- Maintaining accountability for acquired leaders, processes, and operating models until handoff conditions are met.
- Supporting integration readiness across operating models, leadership structures, and organizational transitions.
- Delivering clear, fact-based updates to senior leadership on performance trends, risks, and transition readiness.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in operations leadership within logistics, supply chain, fulfillment, transportation, or a similarly complex operating environment.
- Demonstrated P&L ownership or direct financial accountability, including responsibility for operating performance, cost structure, margin management, and tradeoff decisions.
- P&L ownership of a division or company generating more than $100M a year.
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional execution, with accountability for outcomes across operations, account management, technology, and people functions.
- Strong operating judgment and interpersonal instincts, with a proven ability to drive alignment, execution, and accountability.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Flexible work arrangements
- Professional development opportunities
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
P&L accountabilityoperational performance managementcost structure managementmargin managementtradeoff decision makingcross-functional executionoperating rhythmsperformance reviewsrisk managementorganizational transitions
Soft skills
leadershipinterpersonal skillsalignmentexecutionaccountabilityoperating judgmentcommunicationteam executionproblem-solvingstakeholder management