PMO - Integration Manager
- london, england, United Kingdom
- Permanent·Hybrid
- Full time
- £70 - £100 Per Hour
Job Description
About Lanpro
LanproGroupis fast growing and expansive, made up of multifunctional businesses which require PMO resource to support delivery and effective integration.
The Lanpro Group platform was established in November 2025 following acquisition by a Private Equity Investor. Lanpro and CarneySweeney joined as a Group structure on a vision to become the largest independent planning led multidisciplinary environmental consultant in the UK. Create Consulting was then acquired by Lanpro in February 2026.
The Group isnow looking to optimise its full potential by delivering a clear and comprehensive integration plan via a PMO Integration Manager fully supported by the Group Leadership team
The Group has offices in Norwich, London, Cambridge, Manchester, Edinburgh, York, Bath, Glasgow, Milton Keynes, Birmingham, Cardiff, Exeter and Chelmsford.
It's multidisciplinaryservicespans across multiple disciplines. Planning, Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), Ecology, Geographical Information Systems (GIS), Landscape Architecture, Architecture & Design, Arboriculture, Visualisation, Historic Environment, Acoustics, Air Quality, Civil Engineering, Geo-environmental, MEP Building Services, Structures, Sustainability, Transport & Highways, Utilities, Water & Flood Risk.
The Lanpro Group offers an environment that is diverse, entrepreneurial and encourages innovation and professional development.
As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.
PMO Integration Manager
The PMO Integration Manager will lead the programme (project/integration) management discipline for mergers, acquisitions and post-deal integration. The role ensures that integration activity is structured, governed and delivered effectively across functions, enabling the organisation to realise deal value, protect business continuity and support colleagues through change (both new and existing to the group).
Key role responsibilities will be to:
- Establish and run the Integration Management for Group Mergers and Acquisition transactions, including governance, cadence, reporting and decision-making forums.
- Build and maintain the master integration plan in coordination with the Group CFO, CEO, CFO, ensuring clear ownership, milestones, dependencies, risks, issues and benefits.
- Coordinate cross-functional workstreams across areas such as People, Finance, IT, legal, operations, Business Development/Sales, marketing and Health and Safety.
- Drive Day 1, Day 30, Day 100 and longer-term integration planning, ensuring readiness across people, process, systems and communications.
- Track integration delivery against strategic objectives, synergy targets, budgets and agreed success measures.
- Identify, manage and elevate risks, issues and interdependencies, ensuring timely resolution by senior stakeholders.
- Support due diligence and pre-close planning by identifying integration requirements, assumptions, constraints and resource needs.
- Prepare executive-level reporting, including dashboards, steering papers, decision logs and progress updates.
- Partner with leaders to support change management, colleague communications, stakeholder engagement and adoption of new ways of working.
- Capture lessons learned and continuously improve the M&A integration playbook, templates and PMO standards.
- Support relationship nurturing for longer-term prospects where transaction readiness may develop over time.
- Ensure all outreach activity is conducted in line with confidentiality (under NDA), data protection, compliance, and reputational standards.
- Clear, credible and controlled integration planning across all active transactions.
- Effective governance that enables fast, informed decision-making.
- Transparent reporting on progress, risks, issues, dependencies, costs and benefits.
- Strong alignment between deal rationale, integration priorities and operational execution.Smooth handover from integration activity into business-as-usual ownership.
Essential Requirements
- Significant experience in programme management, PMO leadership, transformation, integration or complex change delivery.
- Experience supporting mergers, acquisitions, post-merger integration, carve-outs or major organisational change is highly desirable.
- Strong understanding of programme governance, dependency management, risk and issue management, benefits tracking and executive reporting.
- Ability to work across multiple functions and senior stakeholders in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment.
- Excellent planning, prioritisation, facilitation and problem-solving skills.
- Strong commercial awareness, with the ability to connect integration activity to deal value, synergy delivery and customer impact.
- Confident communicator with the ability to translate strategy into clear actions for functional teams.
- Proficiency with project and portfolio management tools, reporting packs and collaboration platforms.
- Relevant project or programme management qualification, such as PRINCE2, MSP, Agile, PMI or equivalent experience, would be advantageous.
Behavioral competencies:
- Operates with structure, pace and attention to detail while remaining pragmatic and outcome focused.
- Builds trust quickly with senior leaders, functional teams and acquired businesses.
- Communicates clearly and calmly, particularly when navigating uncertainty or competing priorities.
- Anticipates issues, removes blockers and maintains momentum across complex workstreams
- Demonstrates sound judgement, discretion and resilience in commercially sensitive situations.
Measures of success:
- Integration milestones delivered on time, within agreed scope and with clear business ownership.
- Risks, issues and dependencies actively managed with appropriate escalation.
- Senior stakeholders have timely, accurate and actionable visibility of integration progress.
- Day 1 and early-life integration activities are delivered with minimal disruption to customers, colleagues and operations.Deal value, synergy assumptions (in line with group reporting and forecasted savings) and integration benefits are tracked and supported through delivery.
As a valued employee of Lanpro, you can expect to feel looked after. We offer the following great benefits as standard:
Day One
- Enhanced Annual Leave entitlement
- Death in service cover
- Centrally based City offices
- Hybrid working environment (flexible work)
- Protected CPD (Department, individual andcompanywide)
- Professional Body membership contribution
- Enhanced Company pension
- Career progression framework and development, including two defined promotion windows annually.
- E Learning portal access
- Non contractual growth bonus scheme
After Probation and Beyond
- Loyalty Leave (Continuous Service Accrued Annual Leave up to 5 days)
- Vitality Health Care - Private Medical Insurance
- Discounted Gym membership
- Discounts andperks- Amazon prime, Free Odeon Cinema tickets, Applebenefitsand Café Nero
- Employee Assistance Program - including Financial and Mental Health support from externalexpertise.