M&A Integration Lead (Post-Merger Integration & Carve-Outs)

Intelance is an enterprise architecture, AI governance and cyber resilience consultancy. We support large, complex organisations through transformation, integration and change. We are building our associate bench of senior M&A integration specialists to support clients with high-volume, high-variety deal pipelines. This is an associate / contract engagement with the potential to be long-term and ongoing, with work rotated to keep delivery fresh.

You will lead and support integration activity across the full deal lifecycle, often across several concurrent deals. Typical work includes:

• Leading or supporting M&A integration across multiple concurrent workstreams
• Owning integration plans, and managing risks, issues, dependencies, actions and decisions (RAID)
• Supporting technology and operational due diligence, and flagging process, system and operating-model risks early
• Working across business, technology, finance, HR, legal, operations and change teams
• Coordinating Day 1 readiness and post-deal implementation
• Helping acquired businesses align to shared platforms, processes and governance
• Bringing structure and momentum where ownership is unclear or progress has stalled
• Translating integration strategy into practical, day-to-day delivery
• Capturing lessons learned and strengthening repeatable integration capability

• Proven M&A integration / post-merger integration experience across multiple deals, not a single transaction
• Hands-on experience of Day-1 readiness and post-deal implementation
• Experience spanning both technology and operational integration
• Exposure to varied deal types: acquisitions, partnerships and joint ventures
• Strong programme and workstream management, including RAID and dependency control
• Confident working with senior stakeholders across business, finance, HR, legal and technology
• Genuine change sensitivity when moving acquired businesses onto shared platforms and ways of working
• Carve-out, separation or large transformation experience an advantage
• Programme qualification (MSP, PMP or similar) welcome but not essential
• London based or able to work in London regularly

• Long-term, ongoing engagement potential with varied, high-profile deal work
• Roll-on / roll-off model that keeps work fresh and avoids stagnation
• Work alongside senior Intelance architects and leadership
• Exposure to complex, global integration programmes across sectors

If you have genuine, hands-on M&A integration experience and want varied, long-term deal work, we would like to hear from you. Apply with your CV and a short note on the integration programmes you have led. We review applications on a rolling basis and will be in touch quickly with strong fits.