At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead post-M&A integration projects, ensuring smooth onboarding and operational alignment.
- Company: Fast-growing, tech-enabled platform backed by private equity.
- Benefits: Opportunity for career progression, extensive travel, and hands-on experience.
- Other info: Dynamic role with significant scope for leadership growth.
- Why this job: Shape the future of a scaling platform and make a real impact.
- Qualifications: Experience in M&A integration or top-tier consulting with strong stakeholder management skills.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
Location: UK (extensive travel required)
Company: High-growth, PE-backed
The Opportunity
Our client is a fast-scaling, PE-backed, tech enabled platform. With strong investor backing and an experienced leadership team spanning technology and operations, this is a genuinely high growth environment with significant opportunity to shape the future operating model. Following a series of acquisitions across the UK, the business is seeking a high-calibre Integrations Manager to take ownership of post M&A integration activity ensuring seamless onboarding, operational alignment, and long term value realisation across newly acquired businesses. This is a role at the heart of a scaling platform, offering significant scope for progression into leadership as the integration function grows.
The Role
As Integrations Manager, you will lead the end-to-end integration lifecycle, working closely with stakeholders across operations, technology, and leadership to embed newly acquired businesses into a centralised platform. You will be responsible for balancing data, operations, and people integration, ensuring minimal disruption while maximising efficiency and performance.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead multiple concurrent post M&A integration projects across the UK
- Oversee client onboarding, data migration, and process standardisation
- Ensure smooth transition onto core platforms and operating models
- Identify and resolve integration risks and operational blockers
- Coordinate operational consolidation activities
- Drive standardisation and efficiency across acquired businesses
- Monitor performance metrics and proactively address underperformance
- Ensure all integration activities set the foundation for long-term scalability
- Act as a key liaison for internal and external stakeholders
- Support smooth employee transitions, maintaining engagement and morale
- Navigate cultural differences across regional and legacy businesses
- Travel extensively across the UK to provide hands-on integration support
- Work closely with local teams to embed change and ensure successful delivery
Candidate Profile
- Proven experience in M&A integration, transformation, or operational delivery roles
- Alternatively, top-tier consulting background with 4+ years in operational/implementation work
- Strong experience managing multiple workstreams in fast-paced environments
- Highly structured, analytical, and detail-oriented
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
- Comfortable working in hands-on, execution-focused roles
- Strong understanding of UK business culture and regional dynamics
- Willingness to travel extensively
M&A - Integrations Manager (Post-M&A) in City of London employer: JSS
Join a dynamic and fast-growing PE-backed tech platform in the UK, where you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of post-M&A integrations. With a strong emphasis on employee development, a collaborative work culture, and the opportunity for significant career progression, this company offers a unique environment for those looking to make a meaningful impact while enjoying extensive travel across the UK. Be part of a team that values innovation, operational excellence, and the seamless integration of new businesses into a centralised platform.
