Head of M&a Integration

Partnering with our business verticals and functions, the Strategy and Ventures team is assisting with their near- and longer-term growth strategies, as well as shaping our 2025 corporate strategy. We are also progressing ResMed’s corporate development agenda, focusing on growth through mergers and acquisitions (M&A), partnerships and new business creation.

Job Overview

As the Head of M&A Integration at ResMed, you will spearhead the ongoing development, implementation, and improvement of our merger and acquisition integration capability tailored to our culture, strategy, business needs, and operating model. You will be responsible establishing and leading ResMed’s M&A Integration center or excellence.  In this role you will develop, codify and evolve our best practices, and partner closely with and guide integration leaders and teams to implement these best practices for specific transactions—from integration planning through post-close execution and ongoing value-realization. With a cutting-edge, AI-first approach, you will harness advanced technologies to enhance our productivity and effectiveness in M&A integration, accelerate value realization, and establish ResMed as a best-in-class leader in M&A integration.

Job Responsibilities

• Establish and Lead M&A Integration Center of Excellence:  Define and communicate the vision and strategy for ResMed’s M&A Integration center of excellence and capability, ensuring alignment with overall corporate objectives, unique culture, operating model, and key stakeholders.  Establish and continuously improve ResMed's M&A Integration practice across all phases, including due diligence, planning, execution, and post-merger execution. Standardize and refine our integration approach, leveraging learnings from your experience and industry best practices, and codify them in user-friendly material and resources that integration leaders can easily adopt and reference.  Establish clear and consistent governance structures, reporting cadences, and KPI frameworks to track progress of integration efforts.  Recruit integration manager(s) and manage them to be valued team partners to integration leader and teams for specific acquisitions.
• AI-First Approach:  Establish an AI-augmented approach to M&A integration that improves ResMed’s overall effectiveness and productivity in M&A integration, while also improving the experience for integration teams and leaders.  Leverage AI tools and resources to develop, and continuously improve, integration frameworks and tools to streamline processes, automate manual activities as appropriate, enable data-informed decision-making, and manage integration activities across multiple deals. 
• Integration Strategy and Planning:  Partner with business sponsors, integration leads and cross-functional integration teams to develop integration strategies and execution plans for each acquisition that align with the transaction’s strategic intent and value realization goals, while strengthening cultural alignment between the acquired company’s team and ResMed.
• Execution and Synergy Realization:  Manage the Program Management on execution of multiple integrations projects.  Partner with and guide integration leaders and cross-functional teams through the integration process, ensuring seamless communication and collaboration to meet strategic objectives, synergy realization and risk management within targeted timelines and budgets. Monitor and report on progress, adjusting the integration approach as necessary.
• Risk Management:  Partner with integration teams to identify and assess potential risks associated with the integration of a specific acquisition. Jointly develop and implement risk mitigation strategies, as part of the overall integration approach and plan for the transaction, to ensure overall transaction success.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Foster collaboration across various departments, including the sponsoring unit, Deal Team, and shared service functions including Finance, Operations, HR, IT, and Legal, to ensure a coordinated and cohesive integration process.
• Performance Metrics: Establish and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure the success of integration efforts. Regularly report on integration progress and outcomes to executive leadership and key stakeholders. Capture key learnings for continual improvement.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Experience: 10+ years of demonstrated experience in leading M&A integration centers of excellence or M&A integrations, preferably within highly-acquisitive companies or professional services firms advising those companies. Proven track record of successfully developing and leading integration functions in a global corporate environment. Extensive experience in M&A integration project and program management.
• Leadership, Capability Development & Change Management: Demonstrated leadership capabilities with the ability to influence and drive change, as well as coach and guide teams, at all organizational levels.  Strong understanding of organizational dynamics and how to navigate them to inspire and motivate change, build capabilities and enable successful integrations. 
• Interpersonal and Team Effectiveness:  Expert at assessing a target’s cultural alignment and advising colleagues on key talent management opportunities and challenges related to a particular acquisition.  Adept at building strong professional relationships and collaborating with cross-functional teams across ResMed and target companies. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Strategic & Analytical Mindset: Results-oriented, with a strategic mindset and data-driven approach to problem-solving. Skilled at identifying key operational synergies, creating value-focused strategies, and executing effectively against strategic objectives.
• Adaptability: Comfortable working in a fast-paced and dynamic environment. Ability to adapt quickly to changing priorities and business needs.
• Technical & AI Expertise: Experience in applying AI/ML technologies, data analytics, and automation tools to real-world M&A integration or business transformation initiatives.

Education: Bachelor’s degree in General Business, Finance, Organizational Dynamics or a related fields; MBA preferred.  Certification in M&A Integration preferred.

Joining us is more than saying “yes” to making the world a healthier place. It’s discovering a career that’s challenging, supportive and inspiring. Where a culture driven by excellence helps you not only meet your goals, but also create new ones. We focus on creating a diverse and inclusive culture, encouraging individual expression in the workplace and thrive on the innovative ideas this generates. If this sounds like the workplace for you, apply now! We commit to respond to every applicant.