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Salary: £65,000 - 105,000 per year
Requirements: Significant experience leading M&A, acquisition integration, merger, divestiture or carve-out programmes.Strong hands-on programme management experience across governance, planning, risk, budget and dependencies.Proven experience delivering Day 1 readiness, cutover and stabilisation.Experience coordinating business, technology, application and data workstreams.Strong senior stakeholder and executive management experience.Experience managing suppliers, implementation partners and acquired organisations.Practical understanding of AI, automation and digital tools within programme delivery.Strong communication, analytical, negotiation and problem-solving skills.Relevant programme management certification or equivalent experience.UK or EU candidate location.Desirable: Experience within technology, telecommunications or other complex international environments.Desirable: ERP, HCM, enterprise data or service-management integration experience.Desirable: TSA and seller-separation experience.Desirable: Experience across both acquisition integration and carve-out programmes.Desirable: Familiarity with Microsoft Copilot, Power Platform or Microsoft Fabric. Responsibilities: Lead end-to-end M&A integration planning, mobilisation and delivery.Develop and manage the integrated programme plan, milestones, dependencies, risks, issues and actions.Translate due diligence findings and deal commitments into practical delivery plans.Lead Day 1 readiness, cutover, hypercare and stabilisation.Coordinate application, infrastructure, cybersecurity, data, ERP and business workstreams.Define technology integration strategies, including decisions to retain, integrate, migrate, replace or retire systems.Manage Transitional Service Agreements (TSAs), suppliers and third-party dependencies.Establish data migration, cleansing, reconciliation and business sign-off processes.Provide executive governance, reporting and escalation.Ensure business continuity throughout integration.Apply and continuously improve the M&A Integration Playbook.Identify opportunities to use automation and AI to improve delivery, reduce risk and accelerate integration. Technologies: AICopilotERPFabricSecurity More:
We are seeking an experienced IS Lead / Senior Programme Manager to lead complex M&A acquisition integration programmes. The role translates acquisition objectives and due diligence findings into a controlled integration roadmap covering Day 1, transition, stabilisation and target-state integration, working across Technology, Finance, HR, Procurement, Legal, Security, Data and Operations. This is a remote contract role with an immediate start, outside IR35. European travel is required as needed.
last updated 40 week of 2026