Technology M&A Delivery Lead

About

Based at the global headquarters, the Technology M&A Delivery Lead operates as a key execution driver within the Global Technology Strategy function. Operating under a hybrid working model requiring three days of in-office presence per week, the Lead is responsible for translating agreed integration, separation, and divestment objectives into executable technical delivery plans and successful business outcomes.

The successful candidate will operate with a high degree of autonomy in complex, fast-paced, and often ambiguous post-deal environments where operational ownership, dependencies, and stakeholder responsibilities span multiple global business units. Rather than directly configuring systems, the Lead operates as a matrix-orchestrator, coordinating closely with enterprise architects, product owners, and engineering teams to drive technical execution while ensuring zero disruption to business-as-usual operations.

Functional Responsibilities

Mobilisation & Transition to Delivery

• Lead technical mobilisation activities following deal close, translating high-level integration/separation strategies into practical delivery roadmaps.
• Establish deal-level technical governance structures, working groups, delivery milestones, and reporting rhythms.
• Coordinate business stakeholders, subject matter experts (SMEs), enterprise architects, and third-party delivery partners to validate baseline assumptions.
• Identify immediate delivery risks, map technical dependencies, and manage the structured transition of transactions from pre-deal planning to active implementation.

Delivery Leadership & Execution

• Drive day-to-day execution across technical migrations, network separations, and M&A divestment initiatives.
• Coordinate delivery towers across core enterprise applications, infrastructure, cloud hosting, security, and workplace technology.
• Maintain delivery momentum across multiple concurrent projects, ensuring actions, decisions, risks, and dependencies are actively closed out.
• Collaborate with delivery leads across Global Shared Services (including Finance, HR, Real Estate, Legal, Data Privacy, and Procurement) to align technical solutions with broader corporate streams.

Stakeholder Management & Influence

• Build trusted relationships across diverse corporate divisions, shared services, and newly acquired business teams.
• Facilitate technical workshops, workstream reviews, and decision-making discussions across teams with competing operational priorities.
• Tailor project communications to various audience levels, ensuring technical delivery progress, system risks, and commercial considerations are easily understood.
• Develop practical delivery approaches where target-state ownership or priorities are unclear, establishing structure and direction for the team.

Delivery Governance & Reporting

• Establish and maintain effective governance, project reporting, and operational rhythms across active technology workstreams.
• Maintain absolute visibility over project milestones, delivery status, risks, issues, and critical dependencies.
• Provide timely, concise, and outcome-focused status reporting to the central Technology M&A Steering Board.
• Document key architectural decisions, transition plans, and lessons learned to support the continuous improvement of global M&A playbooks.

Risk, Issue & Dependency Management

• Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate technical delivery risks, driving issues through to resolution to remove delivery blockers.
• Support executive decision-making through the clear assessment of operational impacts, technology trade-offs, and transition states.
• Navigate changing business requirements and technical challenges while maintaining execution momentum.

Commercial & Financial Management

• Track and manage technology delivery costs, maintaining the program’s Financial Workbook and updating forecast spend on a monthly basis.
• Partner with Global Shared Services Finance teams to reconcile actual spend against budgeted integration allocations.
• Support cost forecasting and financial assessments when delivery assumptions, timeline parameters, or transaction scopes change.
• Work with Procurement and Technology leaders to analyse run-cost impacts, license transfers, and Transition Service Agreement (TSA) cost implications.

Requirements and Qualifications

Professional Experience

• Minimum of 6 years of experience in program/project management, with a strong, proven track record of delivering complex technology integrations, separations, carve-outs, or divestments.
• Demonstrated experience operating successfully within complex, federated, or global matrix organisations.
• Proven experience supporting Day 1, Day 2, and post-close transition activities.
• Desirable: Direct experience working within TSA-supported post-deal environments.

Systems & IT Knowledge

• Solid conceptual understanding of enterprise applications, cloud technologies (AWS, Azure), infrastructure migrations, and corporate security environments.
• Familiarity with technology due diligence frameworks, data migration strategies, and target-state landing architectures.

PMO & Execution Methodologies

• Expertise in establishing project governance, setting up operational rhythms, and managing complex risk and dependency registers.
• Professional certification in program management (e.g., PMP, Prince2, or Agile Scrum) is highly valued.

Financial & Commercial Literacy

• Strong commercial awareness with an understanding of technology cost drivers, capital expenditure (CapEx), and operational expenditure (OpEx).
• Highly numerate with hands-on experience managing and forecasting project budgets and estimating run-rate costs.

Soft Skills

• Excellent communication, facilitation, and relationship-building skills, with high emotional intelligence.
• Strong problem-solving capability with a bias toward action, execution, and structure in ambiguous environments.