Program Manager

We are seeking an experienced Program Manager to join our dynamic team.

As a key member, you will define and refine integration strategies, operating models, and Day-1 to Day-100 plans. Your role will involve leading complex multi-stream programs with tight timelines and cross-functional stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

1. Define and refine integration strategies, operating models, and Day-1 to Day-100 plans.
2. Develop and evolve detailed program structures including workplans, milestones, KPIs, and interdependencies, aligned with the overall deal and integration strategy.
3. Lead M&A integration programs spanning corporate and business functional streams.
4. Establish and operate integration governance .
5. Ensure reporting accuracy, KPI tracking, and decision-ready information flow to senior management, Steering Committee, and stakeholders.
6. Drive execution of integration streams, ensuring timely delivery and quality from delivering streams.
7. Monitor, review, and report integration budget actual vs budgeted spend across all work streams.
8. Prepare documentation for Steering Committee / ExCom / leadership meetings.
9. Ensure that the integration process complies with our client's policies and project governance obligations.
10. Share experience and learning across the organization, bringing in internal teams where appropriate.

Requirements:

1. Proven experience delivering post-merger integration across multiple business functions and geographies.
2. Experience working with different integration models (Preservation, Symbiosis, Absorption, full transformation).
3. Demonstrated success leading complex multi-stream programs with tight timelines and cross-functional stakeholders.
4. Ability to interpret and challenge acquisition rationales, synergy cases, and integration imperatives, ensuring execution aligns with business goals.
5. Experience in cultural integration, communication plans, stakeholder alignment, and change management.
6. Strong track record working in multinational and multi-cultural environments and matrixed organizations.
7. Understanding of core corporate processes and how and when to integrate or verticalize Finance, HR, Legal, Workplace, Security.
8. Understanding of commercial models and processes.
9. Familiarity with transition processes such as TSA management, compliance, and corporate policy adoption.
10. Ability to engage and understand R&D, architecture, security, and product teams on system migrations, tool replacements, API integration, or platform alignment (as applicable to the acquisition).