AVP-Delivery Manager

The AVP-Delivery Manager leads end-to-end technology integration programmes associated with mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and strategic corporate initiatives, ensuring operational readiness, risk management, and delivery excellence across global, multi-stakeholder environments.

• Lead end-to-end delivery of technology integration programmes associated with mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and strategic corporate initiatives; develop and maintain integration roadmaps, detailed delivery plans, dependencies, milestones, decision points, and governance forums to ensure coherent programme execution
• Lead Day 1 technology readiness, ensuring acquired employees and critical business operations can function effectively with agreed services, access, connectivity, support, and controls; drive post-close and target-state integration planning, including Day 100 priorities where applicable, transition activities, remediation, and integration completion criteria
• Participate in technology due diligence and discovery activities for proposed acquisitions and divestitures; coordinate assessment of infrastructure, cloud platforms, cybersecurity controls, applications, collaboration tools, networks, end-user services, data, vendors, contracts, and technology operations; consolidate findings into clear recommendations, assumptions, dependencies, and cost considerations for decision-makers
• Partner with technical workstream leads to define target-state solutions and executable integration strategies; coordinate migrations involving collaboration platforms, identity services, endpoints, applications, data, cloud services, networks, and workplace technologies; oversee cutovers, migration events, operational readiness reviews, hypercare, handover to service teams, and legacy-service decommissioning
• Manage dependencies between technology and business workstreams, including human resources onboarding, finance, legal, compliance, sourcing, communications, and corporate real estate; manage technology obligations and exit milestones associated with Transition Service Agreements, where applicable
• Establish and maintain programme governance, delivery controls, risk, assumption, issue, and dependency logs, integrated plans, dashboards, scorecards, and executive reporting; monitor programme health, decisions, constraints, dependencies, financial position, and resource requirements; escalate promptly when intervention is required
• Serve as a primary coordination point between technology teams, business sponsors, the Integration Management Office, acquired-company stakeholders, and third-party suppliers; facilitate discovery workshops, planning sessions, steering committees, design reviews, readiness assessments, and executive governance meetings; manage supplier deliverables, commercial dependencies, statements of work, performance, and escalation paths in partnership with sourcing and vendor management teams
• Provide leadership across multiple concurrent integration initiatives; support budget development, forecasting, cost tracking, investment decisions, and financial reporting; track technology synergies, cost optimisation opportunities, and benefits-realisation measures; mentor project managers and delivery resources, promoting accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement

• Minimum of five years of experience leading complex technology projects, with significant experience supporting mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, or enterprise transformation initiatives
• Strong understanding of the mergers and acquisitions technology lifecycle, including due diligence, pre-close planning, Day 1 readiness, integration execution, transition management, and integration completion
• Experience assessing technology environments across infrastructure, applications, cloud platforms, cybersecurity controls, collaboration services, data, and operational processes
• Experience leading technology integration workstreams involving Microsoft 365, identity and access management, network integration, end-user computing, cloud migration, application rationalisation, and data migration
• Strong understanding of project and programme delivery methodologies, including Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid approaches
• Familiarity with Transition Service Agreements, separation planning, service continuity, and post-close integration activities
• Experience with infrastructure deployments, office relocations, network services, audiovisual systems, and enterprise workplace technology solutions
• Proficiency in delivery and reporting tools such as Jira, Microsoft Project, Power BI, Excel, Confluence, and related platforms
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capability, with the ability to evaluate business impact, identify integration risks, and develop practical mitigation strategies
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including executive-level reporting, presentation development, facilitation, and decision support
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills across business, technology, legal, finance, human resources, security, compliance, sourcing, and corporate real estate functions
• Understanding of information security, technology risk, compliance, data privacy, and governance requirements, with the ability to operate effectively in highly confidential environments involving sensitive transaction and strategic business information
• Basic understanding of artificial intelligence concepts, with curiosity and enthusiasm for learning how AI tools can be used to improve processes and drive efficiency. Interest in exploring AI systems and a willingness to develop awareness of responsible AI practices, including risk management and ethical use
• Bachelor's degree in information technology, computer science, engineering, business administration, or a related discipline

Nice to have

• PMP, PgMP, PRINCE2, Agile, Scrum, or equivalent project management certification preferred
• Change management certification, such as Prosci, is desirable

• Medical, Personal Accident, Life Insurance and Time Off