S&D Integration Project Lead in Birmingham

Country: United Kingdom

Req ID: 524949

Job Type: Full Time

Workplace Type: Hybrid

Seniority Level: Associate

About Cubis Systems

Cubis Systems is a global leader in the design, engineering and manufacture of network access products for the infrastructure, utility and construction markets. Headquartered in Northern Ireland, Cubis is part of the €27 billion CRH Group and operates from multiple sites across the UK and Ireland, exporting to over 30 countries worldwide. Our market-leading brands, Cubis Systems, NAL, and FILOform, supply smart, safe, and sustainable product solutions to a range of construction sectors. Through innovation, we enable construction partners to optimise efficiency and safety through pioneering products designed for simplicity, speed, and reliability.

Join Our Team at Infrastructure Products Europe – Exciting Opportunities Await

At Infrastructure Products Europe, we’re innovators, problem-solvers, and collaborators with a shared mission: creating manufacturing solutions that simplify complex infrastructure challenges. We deliver innovative, sustainable products to clients around the world. Our culture puts people at the centre of everything we do. Your ideas will be valued, your development supported, and your contributions will genuinely make a difference. Here, you’ll be part of a diverse and ambitious team that champions creativity, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

What We Offer

• Company pension contribution
• A range of healthcare options
• Competitive holidays, including Christmas shutdown
• Employee Committees for Health & Wellbeing and Inclusion & Diversity
• Employee referral programme
• Enhanced Family friendly policies
• Career development opportunities across IPE and the wider CRH Group

Reports to: Director of Strategy & Development

Role Overview

An opportunity has arisen to join Infrastructure Products Europe (IPE) in a newly created S&D role focused on acquisition execution and integration of newly acquired businesses. The role will support the successful integration of newly acquired businesses, working within an established integration framework under the direction of the Director of Strategy & Development. You will build and maintain integration programmes, coordinate day‑to‑day integration activities, support workstream owners, and ensure progress, risks, and dependencies are tracked and visible. The role will work closely with functional teams including Finance, HR, Operations, IT, Commercial and HSE, while building strong exposure to senior leadership and transaction processes.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain end-to‑end Integration Programme Plans, ensuring all business areas have clearly defined milestones, dependencies, critical paths, risks and success measures.
• Establish PMO governance structures, including steering committees and reporting forums.
• Coordinate integration workstreams through regular workshops and check‑ins, maintaining action and risk trackers, monitoring progress against milestones, and supporting timely issue escalation with workstream leads.
• Provide structured, consistent reporting to the Director of Strategy & Development and IPE Senior Leadership Team including progress summaries, dashboards, exception reports, and business readiness assessments.
• Partner with the Director of Strategy & Development to be recognised as a trusted point of contact between the acquired business’s leadership and CRH, ensuring transparency and quick escalation of issues and risks.
• Support change impact assessments and integration communications across both organisations, in collaboration with HR and functional teams.
• Build and maintain the integration budget, tracking integration costs, synergies, and value creation metrics tied to the acquisition business case, with support from Finance.
• Conduct post‑implementation reviews, capturing lessons learned and supporting continuous improvement of integration playbooks.
• Create and implement final Integration outcome reports.
• Support analysis, tracking, PMO delivery and reporting of selected S&D initiatives and priority deliverables.
• Provide ad hoc analytical and coordination support for M&A activity, including diligence tracking, information request management, and internal coordination.

Experience & Qualifications

• 2–5 years’ experience in a PMO, project management, commercial, corporate development, consulting, or operational role.
• Demonstrated ability to lead multi‑workstream initiatives, track actions, manage dependencies, and support delivery under pressure.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with experience producing structured updates for senior stakeholders.
• High attention to detail, organisation, and follow‑through.
• Experience working across functions (Finance, Legal, Commercial, Operations, HR, IT, HSE).
• Ambitious, proactive, and motivated to develop a career in Strategy & Development / M&A.
• Engagement with and influencing senior level leadership and stakeholders.
• Experience supporting complex projects or programmes with multiple stakeholders (e.g. PMO, integration, transformation, commercial or operational initiatives).
• Experience with programme planning, action tracking, risk and issue management, and structured reporting.
• Experience working with senior stakeholders, preparing clear written updates, dashboards, and meeting materials.
• Exposure to M&A, integration, or corporate development processes advantageous but not essential.
• Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills for tracking, analysis, and executive‑ready reporting.
• Curiosity and ambition to build a career in Strategy, Development, and M&A.
• Prior exposure to M&A, post‑merger integration, or transaction environments is desirable.
• Experience working within integration frameworks is desirable.
• Understanding of basic financial concepts and modelling (P&L, cash flow, budgets, synergies) relevant to integration tracking is desirable.
• Experience in industrial, infrastructure, or multi‑site operating businesses is desirable.
• Professional qualification or training in project management (e.g. PRINCE2, PMQ, Agile) is desirable.

Cubis Systems is an equal opportunity employer, which values differences in our people. We welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds, and we provide equality through our career development opportunities regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, nationality, age, and disability.