Project Manager - Acquisition Integrations

Description

Our Story

Litera, headquartered in Chicago, IL, is a fast-growing software company and one of the leading legal technology suppliers in the world. Serving more than 90% of the world's largest law firms, our software is used by hundreds of thousands of lawyers every day. As a company recognized as one of the best places to work, we believe professional development, rewards programs, open communication, and transparent leadership all contribute to a unique and open work environment. Our employees are driven, energetic, passionate, and have the ability to make a direct impact on the future of the company.

The Opportunity: The Acquisition Integration Project Manager is part of Litera’s M&A team within the Integration Management Office (IMO). The IMO team provides full lifecycle integration services and works across the entire company to successfully bring together companies in an accretive manner. This role is responsible for project managing post-deal integration work for acquisitions.

A Day in the Life:

• Owns program management activities for active integrations, including master planning, status tracking, reporting, and meeting facilitation
• Works closely with the M&A and IMO leaders to improve and enhance integration assets
• Serves as lead project manager for key workstreams, which may vary based on specifics of each acquisition
• Provides regular updates and reports to integration teams and executive sponsors
• Manages risks and issues, escalating to leadership where necessary
• Analyzes requirements and documents core business processes
• Supports M&A team on various acquisition and integration projects
• Meets regularly with integration teams to maintain continuity across integration projects
• Helps integration teams translate deal objectives into specific execution plans

Role progression:

Within 1 month, you will:

• At the rate we make acquisitions, you’ll also start to participate in a secondary role on an in-flight acquisition
• Learn the integration approach and process, including the integration playbook, best practices, and key activities
• Familiarize yourself with the business, organization, and core systems
• Develop initial understanding of our M&A strategy and key value drivers
• Complete onboarding process

Within 3 months, you will:

• Manage master integration plan and oversee status tracking
• Start owning program management role for an active integration in a leading role
• Complete training on integration approach and process
• Report out on integration status to integration teams and M&A leaders
• Meet regularly with integration teams to understand progress and connect dots across the integration program

Within 6 months, you will:

• Identify potential integration pitfalls and implement mitigation plans
• Be ready to fully own the end-to-end integration process for small and/or medium-sized acquisitions
• Deeply understand the integration playbook, objectives, and artifacts
• Project manage multiple M&A initiatives simultaneously at various stages in the integration process
• Support M&A team efforts to improve and enhance integration process and playbook
• Build relationships with functional leads and serve as trusted project manager on key integration projects

About You:

• Ability to work independently on day-to-day initiatives with appropriate support from manager and M&A teams
• Apply practical experience with communications, culture, and change management
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic, and ambiguous environment
• You get things done
• Experienced in collaborating with cross-functional and international teams
• Strong desire to keep learning new things
• 3-7 years experience in M&A or similarly demanding environments
• High attention to detail with strong facilitation and organization skills
• Experienced in supporting system transition and data migration projects, preferably with hands-on experience in Salesforce

Why Litera?

We strive to stay current with all employment trends and prioritize flexibility, employee well-being, and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Most of our employees are fully remote, and we do not have a return-to-office plan as we are more successful working remotely. Our generous PTO and ten flexible holidays promote work-life balance. And all our employees are encouraged to access personal development courses and tools in our internal learning management system.

Litera is an equal opportunity employer, and proud to be committed to diversity and inclusiveness. We will consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, nationality, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, disability, or age.

Note: As we continually reevaluate pay transparency rules and requirements, in order to ensure we are compliant, we believe a direct approach to be most accurate. If you are a California, Colorado, Connecticut, Maryland, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Ohio or Washington resident and this role is physically available in your state or classified as remote, you may be eligible to receive additional information about the compensation and benefits for this role, which we will provide upon request. Please send an email identifying the title of the role you are interested in and the state you reside in to [email protected] .