Sr. IT Project Manager

Position Summary

Leads the planning and execution of complex Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) integration initiatives, ensuring the seamless alignment of people, processes, technology, and operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of M&A integration programs across business and technology functions, including scope, schedule, budget, resources, and governance.

• Partner with executive leadership and business stakeholders to define integration strategies, priorities, and success metrics.

• Coordinate due diligence activities to identify operational, technology, financial, compliance, and organizational risks.

• Develop and manage integration plans, milestones, dependency maps, Day 1 readiness plans, and post-close execution roadmaps.

• Drive synergy realization initiatives and track achievement of business case objectives, cost savings, revenue opportunities, and operational efficiencies.

• Facilitate decision-making by applying strong critical thinking and evaluating trade-offs among competing integration priorities.

• Lead execution of cross-functional workstream deliverables including Operations, IT, Finance, HR, Marketing, Sales, Customer Experience, Legal, and Compliance.

• Manage third-party vendors, consultants, and integration partners to ensure successful execution.

• Identify, mitigate, and escalate integration risks, issues, and barriers that may impact value realization or timeline commitments.

• Provide executive-level reporting, integration dashboards, status updates, and Steering Committee presentations.

• Ensure adherence to PMO, integration governance, and change management methodologies.

• Drive stakeholder alignment, communication planning, and organizational readiness activities to support successful adoption.

• Support acquisition pipeline planning and integration capacity forecasting for multiple concurrent transactions.

• Mentor project managers and workstream leads while promoting best practices across the PMO.

Additional

• Up to 20% travel as required for acquisition diligence, integration planning, and post-close support.

Qualifications

• External Education: Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience

• Preferred Certifications: PMP, PMI-PBA, CSM, PMI-ACP, SAFe, Prosci Change Management

• Experience: 8–10+ years of project, program, or integration management experience, including significant involvement in mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, or large-scale business transformations.

• Leadership: Successful leadership of acquisition integrations, business transformations, or enterprise-wide change initiatives.

• Experience: Integrating business operations, technology platforms, organizational structures, and customer-facing processes.

• Experience: Managing multiple concurrent integration workstreams and priorities.

• Experience: Working within large corporate environments and highly matrixed organizations.

• Track Record: Strong track record of delivering measurable business outcomes and realizing acquisition synergies.

Core Skills

• M&A Integration Management

• Integration Management Office (IMO) Leadership

• Due Diligence Coordination

• Day 1 & Day 100 Planning

• Synergy Identification & Realization Tracking

• Business Case Development and ROI Analysis

• Executive Stakeholder Management

• Enterprise Change Management

• Cross-Functional Leadership

• Risk Assessment and Mitigation

• Strategic Planning with Hands-on Execution

• Advanced Project Delivery Methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, Hybrid)

• Executive Communication and Board-Level Reporting

• Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making

• Leveraging AI and automation tools to accelerate integration execution and reporting

Preferred

• Integration of technology platforms, data migrations, and application rationalization initiatives

• Experience in private equity-backed, high-growth, or acquisitive organizations

• Experience with carve-outs, divestitures, and organizational restructuring efforts

• Security, technology services, or recurring revenue business experience

Competencies

• Strategic Leadership

• M&A Integration Leadership

• Value Realization

• Results Orientation

• Executive Presence

• Collaboration

• Stakeholder Management

• Change Leadership

• Risk Management

• Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making

Ideal Candidate Profile

A highly organized and strategic integration leader who thrives in fast-paced acquisition environments, can balance executive-level priorities with detailed execution, and has a proven ability to accelerate value realization while minimizing operational disruption during M&A transactions.