Head of Operational Integration (m/f/d)

The role

You will own the post-acquisition process for an Ecosystem Company to ensure the acquired business performs better. You will establish management control, diagnose business conditions, create value through management levers, and build an integration playbook and team.

What you will do

• Establish management control and set up a fixed monthly close
• Introduce one reporting framework across all acquired entities
• Establish a baseline for revenue, margin, working capital, cash, and concentration
• Turn due diligence commitments into a 100-day operating rhythm
• Spend time inside each business to verify its real condition
• Map connections across procurement, pricing, inventory, sales, logistics, financing, ERP, and reporting
• Test integration theses and report findings to the CEO
• Roll out levers such as central procurement, credit, pricing, and automation
• Decide with the CEO what to centralize or keep local
• Build and lead a team that runs several integrations in parallel

Required qualifications

• Around 8-12 years of experience in private equity value creation, portfolio operations, or strategy and transformation
• At least one integration or post-close situation personally led
• Hands-on operating experience in procurement, pricing, supply chain, finance, or sales
• Comfortable working with informal owner-entrepreneurs
• Strong at influencing without formal authority
• Fast, accurate at reading businesses and people
• Fluent in modern AI tools
• Fluent German and English

Benefits

• Entrepreneurial freedom
• Help scale a high-impact business model
• Join an experienced founding team of serial and 2nd-time founders
• Attractive base and bonus compensation program
• Collaboration with top-tier investors and angels

About the company

A11 partners with Europe’s startups, scaleups, corporates and SMBs to connect them with talent. The Ecosystem Company is a supply chain platform using agentic AI and workflow automation for global trade.