Linde Gas & Equipment Inc.
Region Integration Manager
Hillside, IL, United States | req34387
What you will enjoy doing*
- You will shape and lead due diligence and integration strategies for acquisition opportunities across the Central Region, ensuring alignment with regional growth priorities, enterprise M&A objectives, operational requirements, and Linde standards.
- Oversee a portfolio of acquisition and integration initiatives, establishing priorities and coordinating timelines, milestones, risks, interdependencies, deliverables, and cross-functional project teams.
- Collaborate with the National M&A team throughout the deal lifecycle to assess the acquisition pipeline, challenge key assumptions, identify enterprise and regional risks and opportunities, and align diligence priorities, integration strategy, governance, and post-close value-creation plans.
- You will develop and continuously improve scalable due diligence and integration models, playbooks, governance processes, and reporting tools to strengthen execution discipline and accelerate value realization.
- Partner with regional leadership and functional teams to assess the strategic, operational, commercial, financial, safety, HR, IT, compliance, and customer implications of each acquisition; translate due diligence findings, deal assumptions, and business requirements into executable integration strategies with clear ownership, decision points, timelines, milestones, success metrics, and value-capture priorities.
- You will coordinate due diligence and integration activities across National M&A, Operations, Finance, Accounting, HR, IT, Tax, Insurance, Safety, Sales, Marketing, and other support functions.
- Prepare executive-level due diligence assessments, integration updates, risk scenarios, and decision-support materials that enable timely, fact-based decisions by senior leadership; support post-closing activities, including purchase agreement commitments, accounting requirements, financial true-ups, and other contractual obligations.
- You will establish and track integration performance measures related to execution, synergy and value realization, financial performance, policy compliance, customer continuity, talent retention, and operational readiness; serve as a strategic liaison among acquired businesses, the National M&A team, regional leadership, functional teams, and corporate stakeholders; and lead the change and stakeholder management approach for each integration to support a disciplined ownership transition.
What makes you great
- You need 7+ years of professional experience in the packaged gas industry or a related industrial, distribution, or operational business.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in Finance, Operations, Sales, Business Development, or a related functional leadership role.
- You have prior experience supporting acquisitions, due diligence, business integrations, or large cross-functional projects preferred.
- Demonstrated ability to influence senior leaders, lead cross-functional teams without direct authority, and drive alignment and accountability across regional, national, and functional stakeholders.
- Strong understanding of business operations, financial processes, employee relations, IT systems, safety requirements, and customer-facing integration considerations.
- You have proven project management skills, including the ability to organize work, manage competing priorities, meet deadlines, and follow through on commitments.
- Strong strategic judgment, business acumen, diplomacy, flexibility, creativity, and problem-solving skills in complex or ambiguous deal and integration environments; working knowledge of change management principles and how they apply to acquisition integration.
- Ability to travel approximately 50% or more, based on business needs.
Why you will love working with us
Linde is a leading global industrial gases and engineering company with 2025 sales of $34 billion. We live our mission of making our world more productive every day by providing high-quality solutions, technologies and services which are making our customers more successful and helping to sustain, decarbonize and protect our planet.
Linde serves a variety of end markets such as chemicals & energy, food & beverage, electronics, healthcare, manufacturing, metals and mining. Linde's industrial gases and technologies are used in countless applications, enabling space exploration and launch technologies, delivering ultra-high-purity and specialty gases for semiconductor manufacturing, providing life-saving medical oxygen and enabling clean hydrogen production and carbon capture to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Linde also delivers state-of-the-art gas processing solutions to support customer growth, efficiency improvements and emissions reductions.
What we offer you!
At Linde, the sky is not the limit. If you're looking to build a career where your work reaches beyond your job description and betters the people with whom you work, the communities we serve, and the world in which we all live, at Linde, your opportunities are limitless. Be Linde. Be Limitless.
Linde offers competitive compensation and an outstanding benefits package. Enjoy access to health, dental, disability, and life insurance, paid holidays and vacation, an employee discount program, and opportunities for educational and professional growth. Additional compensation may vary depending on the position and organizational level. Build your future with us while making an impact every day!
Pay range: $125,475 - $167,300 yearly, based on experience
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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other reason prohibited by applicable law.
Linde Gas & Equipment Inc. acts responsibly towards its shareholders, business partners, employees, society and the environment in every one of its business areas, regions and locations across the globe. The company is committed to technologies and products that unite the goals of customer value and sustainable development.
- The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of employees assigned to this position. Therefore employees assigned may be required to perform additional job tasks required by the manager.
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