PMO - Integration Transformation Manager

Lanpro; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working environment (flexible)

Job summary

Lanpro is seeking an experienced PMO Integration & Transformation Manager to lead the programme management discipline for mergers, acquisitions and post‑deal integration across the group. You will govern multi‑functional workstreams, build the master integration plan with clear ownership, milestones and dependencies, and report progress to senior leaders.

Based in the UK with hybrid working, you will drive Day 1 to Day 100 integration activities, manage risks and ensure value capture while

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading PMO, transformation and complex change delivery.
• Experience supporting M&A integrations and post‑deal integration.
• Strong governance, dependency, risk/issue management and executive reporting capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Establish and run integration management for Group Mergers and Acquisitions with governance, cadence and forums.
• Build master integration plan with clear ownership, milestones, risks and benefits.
• Coordinate cross-functional workstreams across People, Finance, IT, Legal, Operations, Sales and Health & Safety.
• Drive Day 1–Day 100 integration planning and longer-term readiness across people, processes, systems and communications.
• Track delivery against objectives, synergy targets and budgets.
• Identify risks, issues and interdependencies and escalate to senior stakeholders.
• Support due diligence and pre-close planning for integration requirements.

Skills

Programme management

PMO leadership

Transformation & change delivery

M&A integration

Governance & risk management

Executive reporting

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional coordination

Communication

Planning & scheduling

Education

PRINCE2/MSP/PMI or Agile qualification

Job description

About Lanpro

LanproGroupis fast growing and expansive, made up of multifunctional businesses which require Transformation PMO resource to support delivery and effective integration.

The Lanpro Group platform was established in November 2025 following acquisition by a Private Equity Investor. Lanpro and CarneySweeney joined as a Group structure on a vision to become the largest independent planning led multidisciplinary environmental consultant in the UK. Create Consulting was then acquired by Lanpro in February 2026.

The Group is now looking to optimise its full potential by delivering a clear and comprehensive integration plan via a PMO Integration &TransformationManager fully supported by the Group Leadership team

The Group has offices in Norwich, London, Cambridge, Manchester, Edinburgh, York, Bath, Glasgow, Milton Keynes, Birmingham, Cardiff, Exeter and Chelmsford.

It's multidisciplinaryservicespans across multiple disciplines. Planning, Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), Ecology, Geographical Information Systems (GIS), Landscape Architecture, Architecture & Design, Arboriculture, Visualisation, Historic Environment, Acoustics, Air Quality, Civil Engineering, Geo-environmental, MEP Building Services, Structures, Sustainability, Transport & Highways, Utilities, Water & Flood Risk.

The Lanpro Group offers an environment that is diverse, entrepreneurial and encourages innovation and professional development.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

The PMO Integration and Transformation Manager will lead the programme (project/integration) management discipline for mergers, acquisitions and post-deal integration. The role ensures that integration activity is structured, governed and delivered effectively across functions, enabling the organisation to realise deal value, protect business continuity and support colleagues through change (both new and existing to the group).

Key role responsibilities will be to:

• 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.
• Support with wider business processes and continuous improvement projects around business efficiency
• 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.

Essential Requirements

• Significant experience in programme management, PMO leadership, transformation, integration or complex change delivery.
• Experience supporting mergers, acquisitions, post-merger integration, carve-outs or major organisational change is highly desirable.
• Strong understanding of programme 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, reporting packs and collaboration platforms.
• Relevant project or programme management qualification, such as PRINCE2, MSP, Agile, PMI or equivalent experience, would be advantageous.

Behavioral competencies:

• Operates with structure, pace and attention to detail while remaining pragmatic and outcome focused.
• Builds trust quickly with senior leaders, functional teams and acquired businesses.
• Communicates clearly and calmly, particularly when navigating uncertainty or competing priorities.
• Anticipates issues, removes blockers and maintains momentum across complex workstreams
• Demonstrates sound judgement, discretion and resilience in commercially sensitive situations.

Measures of success:

• Integration milestones delivered on time, within agreed scope and with clear business ownership.
• Risks, issues and dependencies actively managed with appropriate escalation.
• Senior stakeholders have timely, accurate and actionable visibility of integration progress.
• Day 1 and early-life integration activities are delivered with minimal disruption to customers, colleagues and operations.Deal value, synergy assumptions (in line with group reporting and forecasted savings) and integration benefits are tracked and supported through delivery.

As a valued employee of Lanpro, you can expect to feel looked after. We offer the following great benefits as standard:

Day One

• Enhanced Annual Leave entitlement
• Death in service cover
• Centrally based City offices
• Hybrid working environment (flexible work)
• Protected CPD (Department, individual andcompanywide)
• Professional Body membership contribution
• Enhanced Company pension
• Career progression framework and development, including two defined promotion windows annually.
• E Learning portal access
• Non contractual growth bonus scheme

After Probation and Beyond

• Loyalty Leave (Continuous Service Accrued Annual Leave up to 5 days)
• Vitality Health Care - Private Medical Insurance
  • Discounted Gym membership
  • Discounts andperks- Amazon prime, Free Odeon Cinema tickets, Applebenefitsand Café Nero
  • Employee Assistance Program - including Financial and Mental Health support from externalexpertise.
• BUPA Cash Plan
  • Employee Assistance Program - including Financial and Mental Health support from externalexpertise.
• Cycle to work scheme