The Associate Director - Integrations & Acquisitions - CDO is accountable for leading and overseeing all integration activities related to new companies or acquired assets within CDO, ensuring the seamless assimilation of people, processes, and systems. This role is responsible for planning, coordinating, and executing comprehensive integration strategies that align with CDO's standards, policies, and business objectives. This role minimizes disruption and risk during transition phases, proactively manages change, and ensures business continuity and quality throughout the integration lifecycle. By maintaining consistent practices and partnering with cross-functional teams, this role directly supports the successful realization of value from business development deals and strengthens CDO’s capacity for scalable growth.Responsibilities:Establishes and implements comprehensive plans to address unique needs of each transactionDevelop and assess integrated project plans, risk plans, and effectiveness metrics for each integration initiativeResponsible for guiding the integration team through all aspects of the change management process to ensure smooth and efficient transitionsThis position is responsible for problem solving, risk mitigation and contingency plans at a global levelThis role is integral in setting and ensuring alignment across a set of integrated initiatives/activitiesActively shares learnings and collaborates with other Integration Leads to apply best practices to support teamsSupports high performing project teams through monitoring and assessing the team’s performance and adherence to project timelines and qualityThis is the first level position (of 2 levels) within a job family which is responsible for overseeing the management of projects that are cross-functional, highly complex, have high impact and are top priority for the organizationThis position will report into a director level and will manage matrix teams