M&A PMO & Integration Lead

Jobsoid Inc.; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working (flexible)

Enhanced annual leave

Professional body membership support

Enhanced company pension

Career progression framework

E-learning portal access

Job summary

Lanpro Group is seeking a PMO Integration Manager to lead the programme management discipline for mergers, acquisitions and post-deal integration. The role delivers structured governance, a master integration plan, and clear ownership across functions to realise deal value and maintain business continuity.

You will coordinate cross-functional workstreams with People, Finance, IT, legal and operations, driving Day 1 through Day 100 planning and ongoing integration activities.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in programme management, PMO leadership, transformation or complex change delivery.
• Experience supporting mergers, acquisitions, post-merger integration or major organisational change.
• Strong governance, dependency management, risk and issue management, benefits tracking and executive reporting.
• Ability to work across multiple functions and senior stakeholders in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment.
• Excellent planning, prioritisation, facilitation and problem-solving skills.
• Strong commercial awareness, with the ability to connect integration activity to deal value, synergy delivery and customer impact.
• Confident communicator with the ability to translate strategy into clear actions for functional teams.
• Proficiency with project and portfolio management tools.
• Relevant project or programme management qualification, such as PRINCE2, MSP, Agile, PMI or equivalent experience, would be advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Establish and run the Integration Management for Group Mergers and Acquisition transactions, including governance, cadence, reporting and decision-making forums.
• Build and maintain the master integration plan in coordination with the Group CFO, CEO, CFO, ensuring clear ownership, milestones, dependencies, risks, issues and benefits.
• Coordinate cross-functional workstreams across areas such as People, Finance, IT, legal, operations, Business Development/Sales, marketing and Health and Safety.
• Drive Day 1, Day 30, Day 100 and longer-term integration planning, ensuring readiness across people, process, systems and communications.
• Track integration delivery against strategic objectives, synergy targets, budgets and agreed success measures.
• Identify, manage and elevate risks, issues and interdependencies, ensuring timely resolution by senior stakeholders.
• Support due diligence and pre-close planning by identifying integration requirements, assumptions, constraints and resource needs.
• Prepare executive-level reporting, including dashboards, steering papers, decision logs and progress updates.
• Partner with leaders to support change management, colleague communications, stakeholder engagement and adoption of new ways of working.
• Capture lessons learned and continuously improve the M&A integration playbook, templates and PMO standards.
• Support relationship nurturing for longer-term prospects where transaction readiness may develop over time.
• Ensure all outreach activity is conducted in line with confidentiality (under NDA), data protection, compliance, and reputational standards.
• Clear, credible and controlled integration planning across all active transactions.
• Effective governance that enables fast, informed decision-making.
• Transparent reporting on progress, risks, issues, dependencies, costs and benefits.
• Strong alignment between deal rationale, integration priorities and operational execution.Smooth handover from integration activity into business-as-usual ownership.

Skills

Programme management

PMO leadership

Change delivery

Stakeholder management

Communication

Risk & issues management

Planning & prioritisation

Problem solving

Education

PRINCE2 MSP PMI Agile

Tools

Project management tools

Job description

Lanpro Group is seeking a PMO Integration Manager to lead the programme management discipline for mergers, acquisitions and post-deal integration. The role delivers structured governance, a master integration plan, and clear ownership across functions to realise deal value and maintain business continuity.

You will coordinate cross-functional workstreams with People, Finance, IT, legal and operations, driving Day 1 through Day 100 planning and ongoing integration activities.