Integration Project Manager

Job Title: Integration Project Manager

Reports to: Integration Program Manager

Location: Remote with regular travel across the UK

Established in 2003, we’re proud to be one of the UK’s leading independent providers of essential business technology.

We are a highly acquisitive MSP. In recent years we have acquired 15+ companies across the UK and successfully integrated them into our core organisation. As our appetite for growth accelerates, we are looking for an experienced project manager to play a lead role in managing the integration of current and future acquisitions.

This role sits within the Integration team and is to enable the organisation to continue to grow and develop in line with our ambitions by integrating acquired organisations at speed and in a controlled fashion.

The Project Manager is responsible for planning and delivering specific integration projects in line with the overall programme approach.

An integration project is a specialised kind of project. The scope of the projects will vary from acquisition to acquisition and can encompass all aspects ranging from HR, Sales, Operations through to system migration/integration. This role is to help ensure that the integrations are delivered efficiently, on-time and to scope. This will mean managing multiple simultaneous projects (across an average 6-8 companies at any one time) and taking responsibility for specific integration projects and workstreams, operating to tight schedules in a demanding environment.

You will work with the ‘virtual’ cross-functional/regional project teams to ensure they deliver consistently against the plan.

Essential Skills & Experience:

• Prior experience as a project manager notably IT project management and business change project management.
• Good working knowledge of project estimation techniques.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Multi-tasking skills.
• Proven ability to bring structure to a piece of work.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Recognised project management qualification, such as PRINCE2 Foundation/Practitioner, APM PMQ, Agile.
• Flexibility to travel frequently to acquisition locations.

Principal Responsibilities/Duties:

Project Planning

• Create implementation plans, resource plans, communication plans and budgets and gain approval from stakeholders. This will entail working closely with the BAU team leads on the plan detail and resource allocation.
• Review and input into potential projects and scope with business stakeholders, BAs and Development teams.
• Ensure project scope is defined and approved prior to implementation.
• Ensure regular communication of progress to all relevant stakeholders.

Delivery Management

• Lead projects and workstreams from requirements definition through to deployment.
• Coordinate internal and external resources, ensuring projects remain within scope, schedule and defined budgets.
• Analyse project progress and, when necessary, adapt scope, timelines and costs to ensure that project team adheres to project requirements.
• Establish and maintain relationships with appropriate client stakeholders, providing regular contact on project status and changes.
• Deliver plans on schedule and to expectations, managing exceptions proactively to minimise slippage or overruns.
• Work with business stakeholders to ensure business outcomes are effectively met by delivering the projects in a predictable manner taking account of commercial impact.
• Track change requests and manage agreed scope and schedule changes, communicating these accordingly.
• Report project outcomes and/or risks to the appropriate management channels as needed—escalating issues as necessary based on project work plans.
• Provide weekly project reporting and insight.

Process Improvement

• Continuously identify how processes can be enhanced and improved.
• Identify and track common issues impacting delivery, highlighting these for discussion with appropriate teams with a goal of removing or reducing the impact of any such issues.
• Ensure the reasons and impact of any changes in scope or schedule are clearly tracked.

Benefits

At Focus Group you can be proud of what you do, how you do it and feel a true part of the team. We work hard to create an inclusive, collaborative and rewarding environment where you are inspired to achieve brilliant things and really make a difference to the future of our business.

We’re proud to have built an outstanding place to work where people thrive and are recognised for their achievements. We’re delighted to have been named one of the UK’s best 100 Companies to Work for 2021 and a British Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (BVCA) 2023 Vision Award Winner for London & South East for our commitment to culture and ESG.

We welcome all applications and if you struggle to apply online, please contact us for a chat, or email us directly. We can make any reasonable adjustments to the working environment to ensure all employees are included and can work safely in our offices.