Contractors’ Warehouse —
Manager, Acquisition Integration & Value Creation

Position Purpose:

Home Depot continues to invest across the enterprise to support this next chapter our growth story, including acquisitions. For our acquired businesses we are deeply focused on ensuring the continued success at part of THD enterprise by fostering coordination, learning and drive shareholder value. As a result, we have recently established a new group focused on Acquisition Integration and Value Creation (AIVC). The role of this newly created team will be to ensure appropriate commercial integration between THD acquired businesses while at same time developing scalable / repeatable processes acquisition integration processes to aid in potential future M&A integration activity.

The AIVC will be responsible for helping identify the most critical focus areas of integration and value creation and based on those focus areas, work with business leaders to advance the value creation initiatives.  

The Manager role will help provide support to the AIVC leadership to execute commercial integration opportunities including development of strategy, financial analysis to support strategy, partnering with project teams to implement strategies and tracking results. The AIVC team will have broad organizational exposure, develop deep relationships with THD leadership, and will play a key role in driving value for acquired businesses.

Major Tasks, Responsibilities & Key Accountabilities:

• Drive financial analysis and process management to drive value creation of acquired businesses via commercial integration.

• Drive analytical insights in support of integration efforts and value creation  

• Lead cross-functional project teams to manage and execute high-value initiatives identified as potential opportunities for value creation of acquired businesses.

• Develop strategies to streamline integration efforts with acquired businesses.

Direct Manager/Direct Reports:

• Reports to the Director, Acquisition Integration and Value Creation.

Travel Requirements:

• Typically requires overnight travel 5% to 20% of the time.

Physical Requirements:

• Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.

Working Conditions:              

• Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Must be eighteen years of age or older.

• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5-6 years of prior experience in retail, distribution, strategy consulting, investment banking, private equity, or corporate strategy

• History of promotion / advancement ahead of status quo

Minimum Education:

• The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelors degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.

Minimum Years of Work Experience:

• 5

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Competencies:

• Comfort with tackling highly ambiguous and cross-functional problems

• Strong communication skills (both written and verbal) and significant experience influencing stakeholders above candidate s tenure/level

• Proven ability to see the bigger picture by assimilating extensive amounts of data/research

• Exceptional analytical ability and significant exposure to financial analysis

• Advanced experience with PowerPoint presentations

• Experience managing teams of highly performing employees, especially without direct-line authority over those employees