Our client is a fast-growing, UK-wide services group headquartered in West Sussex. Backed by long-term private equity investors, the business has scaled rapidly through organic growth and a proven M&A strategy, with multiple acquisitions completed in 2025 and an ongoing pipeline for the next 12-18 months.

We’re looking for an experienced Project Manager to lead end-to-end M&A integration activity across a growing, ambitious organisation. If you thrive in fast-paced environments, enjoy bringing structure to complexity, and have a passion for delivering value through well-executed integrations, we’d love to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities:

M&A Integration Project Leadership

• Lead full end-to-end project management of M&A integrations.
• Support pre-acquisition due diligence activity, including data analysis and identification of potential synergies and/or issues.
• Develop high-level integration plans by understanding existing systems & processes and how they can be adopted and adapted into the wider group.
• Build and manage post-transaction activity trackers, in order to provide monthly updates to the business leadership team & Board.
• Act as overall project lead for post-transaction integration, working closely with support services, operational stakeholders, and commercial leadership teams.
• Ensure the business is fully prepared for integration and oversee execution across all functions.
• Provide regular reporting to the commercial leadership team and board on progress, risks and opportunities.
• Manage the full post-integration review and execution process, ensuring training is delivered, actions completed, and remaining issues resolved.

Acquisition Project Management

• Maintain due-diligence trackers and provide weekly updates on all live M&A activity.
• Support outbound M&A projects and related workstreams.

About You

We’re looking for someone who combines proven technical project management expertise with strong M&A integration, commercial and organisational awareness. You’ll be able to demonstrate:

• Prince2 (or equivalent) Project Management qualification.
• Proven experience delivering multiple M&A integrations end-to-end.
• Experience of ERP implementation and data modelling would be a real advantage.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, particularly across finance, operations and executive teams.
• Ability to bring order, structure and clarity to complex, fast-moving programmes.