Senior Director, Acquisition Integration

Sr. Director, Acquisition Integration

This role will be responsible for the successful integration of Acquisitions into the Quick Quack portfolio. They will be responsible for the customized integration strategy unique to each unit, market, and brand; supporting the forecasting, budgeting, and strategy process; and most importantly executing the finalized strategy for the acquisition to drive the forecasted results. They will be responsible for the results and performance of each acquisition within the portfolio, and its successful integration into the brand and operations portfolio.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Quickly earn the confidence and trust of key stakeholders, across a variety of functional areas.
• Influence teams not within the direct reporting structure to complete their necessary commitments to ensure on time and expected results.
• Communicates effectively with all levels of the organization, with clarity and precision while appropriately tailoring messages.
• Build, maintain, and execute a financial forecasting model for any acquisitions including accurate and achievable targets in volume, revenue, and EBITDA with clarity on input targets to achieve those goals.
• Build the integration strategy, to ensure financial and forecasting model is achieved.
• Execute the integration strategy and achieve forecasted results.
• In the event, the strategy requires maintaining operations of acquisitions before integration, oversee unintegrated brands temporarily to ensure budgeted and current performance maintains to budget.
• Ensure integration process yield in a successful handoff to Operations under the QQ Brand, Standards, and with the necessary resources to achieve or exceed forecasted results
• Run and coordinate a team, or teams, focused on the projects but not necessarily within the direct reporting structure.
• Provides overall coordination and expert guidance to the segment and each functional work stream necessary involved in the process (IT, Install, Operations, HR, etc.)
• Effectively evaluate each acquisition for organizational efficiencies that might be translated into the QQ ecosystem at scale to drive additional results portfolio wide; additionally able to communicate those to the larger organization to make systemwide changes. Ensuring all potential synergies are captured, identified, and implemented within the first 6 months of the acquisition.
•  Report regularly to Executive Leadership Team and Board Members, strategies and plans for integration by site/brand, as well as learning efficiencies recommended to be adopted by the larger QQ Portfolio.
• Ensure standard integration process, playbooks, and other work plans are well documented, utilized and kept current by leveraging past experience, internal learnings and external best practices.

Qualifications:

• Ability to think outside the box in designing new strategies and approached, able to translate market leading integration approached not already used into adoption.
• Ability to understand operational performance potentials, and lag inputs needed in order to drive specific operational results.
• Oversee and run operations of an non-integrated brand.
• Ability to influence independent of structure.
• Comfortable and skilled in building Cohesive Teams in Trust, Conflict, Commitment, Accountability, with Results being the focus.
• Operates effectively with limited information and a high degree of ambiguity.
• Financial planning, budget modeling, and P&L management.

Requirements:

• Proficient in Microsoft Suite of products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Office, etc.)
• Willing and able to travel. Ephemeral/inconsistent travel expectations; should expect 50-75% with phases of consistent travel, and occasional phases of minimal travel.
• Bachelor’s Degree in relevant area (e.g. Business Management/Finance/IT), or 5 years in Acquisitions Integrations, or Operational Leadership (Director Level) with proven track record for results.
• 5 years in project management roles, with experience planning, managing and delivering complex projects at a cross-functional level; including change management initiatives.
• 5 years in Car Washing Operations and/or Multi-Unit Brand Integration Leadership.
• Resides in Western or Mid-Western United States (i.e California, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, Texas) - Preferred