Company Description WILB Effect is a management consulting firm headquartered in Dallas, Texas, specializing in project and program management, PMO design, change management, and business transformation. WILB Effect integrates organizational structure with human alignment, ensuring accountability, clear milestones, and lasting results. The company serves clients nationally and internationally and emphasizes authenticity, excellence, and practical transformation.
About the Opportunity
Can you confidently lead complex integration programs, influence C-suite executives, and deliver results when the stakes are high?
WILB Effect is seeking accomplished, execution-driven Integration Program Managers for potential referral to specialized consulting engagements supporting complex mergers, acquisitions, carve-outs, and business transformations.
We are looking for professionals who bring more than project management experience. Our ideal candidates combine executive-level communication, advanced Smartsheet expertise, disciplined PM execution, financial awareness, and the judgment to navigate high-pressure corporate environments.
These opportunities require leaders who can establish trust quickly, influence without formal authority, manage competing executive priorities, and consistently turn commitments into measurable outcomes.
This is not a traditional project coordinator or administrative PM role. Success requires independent ownership, strategic thinking, exceptional follow-through, and the confidence to work directly with executive leadership.
Key Responsibilities
Integration and Program Execution
Develop and maintain comprehensive integration plans, milestones, dependencies, and critical paths.
Coordinate pre-close readiness, Day 1 execution, post-close integration, and transition activities.
Establish structured project governance, decision-making processes, and delivery accountability.
Maintain accurate RAID logs, action registers, executive dashboards, and decision documentation.
Deliver high-quality project artifacts and assigned commitments consistently, accurately, and on time.
C-Suite and Executive Stakeholder Leadership
Partner confidently with C-suite executives, senior leadership, private equity stakeholders, and functional workstream owners.
Establish credibility and trusted working relationships through preparation, integrity, responsiveness, and consistent delivery.
Facilitate executive meetings, steering committees, and decision-oriented working sessions.
Communicate complex issues through concise, clear, actionable executive reporting.
Exercise sound judgment regarding escalation, confidentiality, organizational dynamics, and competing priorities.
Influence cross-functional teams without relying on formal reporting authority.
Smartsheet and PM Process Excellence
Demonstrate hands-on Smartsheet proficiency, including project plans, dependencies, formulas, cross-sheet references, dashboards, reports, and automation. (one of the interviews requires showcasing the sample plan you built)
Maintain Smartsheet as a reliable source of truth for program execution and leadership reporting.
Apply project management methodologies, schedule discipline, milestone accountability, change control, and documentation standards.
Proactively identify delivery gaps, eliminate ambiguity, and resolve execution obstacles.
Maintain exceptionally high standards of accuracy, timeliness, consistency, and follow-through.
Financial and Business Acumen
Understand project budgets, financial forecasts, actual expenditures, and resource considerations.
Track integration costs, synergy objectives, financial dependencies, and budget-related risks.
Understand the operational and financial implications of Transition Services Agreements (TSAs).
Translate financial and operational information into clear executive-level insights.
Balance business priorities, delivery requirements, resource capacity, and financial constraints.
Required Qualifications
3+ years of program management experience, preferably in complex corporate environments.
Smartsheet proficiency is mandatory. Candidates must demonstrate practical experience designing, maintaining, and managing project plans and executive reporting solutions.
Proven ability to work directly with C-suite executives and senior stakeholders.
Strong command of project management fundamentals, governance, integrated planning, critical path management, RAID, and change control.
Exceptional organizational skills, prioritization, time management, and commitment to deadlines.
Experience coordinating multiple workstreams and managing complex dependencies.
Strong financial literacy, business acumen, and budget awareness.
Excellent written and verbal communication with an emphasis on concise, executive-ready messaging.
Demonstrated success delivering independently in remote, fast-paced, high-pressure environments.
Essential Leadership Competencies
We place significant value on how our project managers lead, communicate, and deliver.
Executive Presence and Corporate Situational Awareness: Ability to read the room, recognize executive expectations, navigate organizational sensitivities, and adjust communication appropriately without compromising transparency.
Cultural Awareness and Emotional Intelligence: Ability to work effectively across diverse organizational cultures, leadership styles, professional backgrounds, and global teams. Demonstrates respect, diplomacy, adaptability, and awareness of interpersonal dynamics.
Trust and Professional Credibility: Builds confidence through reliability, discretion, honesty, accountability, and consistent execution.
Ownership and Follow-Through: Takes responsibility for commitments, proactively communicates obstacles, and consistently completes required deliverables within agreed deadlines.
Prioritization and Sound Judgment: Distinguishes critical business issues from routine activity, anticipates competing demands, and understands when to escalate, influence, or independently resolve challenges.
Composure Under Pressure: Maintains professionalism, accuracy, and decisive leadership during sensitive transactions, compressed timelines, and executive-level challenges.
Influence Without Authority: Drives accountability across teams and stakeholders through relationships, clarity, consistency, and demonstrated expertise.
Preferred Qualifications
PMP certification preferred but not required. Demonstrated delivery experience and project management rigor are more important than credentials alone.
Demonstrated leadership of M&A integrations, carve-outs, divestitures, or complex business transitions, ideally including three or more transactions.
Experience supporting private equity-backed transactions or corporate development teams.
Familiarity with Transition Services Agreements, Day 1 readiness, integration management offices, and synergy realization.
Background in enterprise transformation, finance, IT, operations, organizational change management, or business process integration.
Experience facilitating executive steering committees and creating decision-oriented reporting.
What Sets Successful Candidates Apart The strongest candidates are professionals who:
Know how to engage senior executives with confidence, credibility, and discretion.
Can build a comprehensive Smartsheet integration plan, not simply update one.
Understand that a project plan is a management tool, not an administrative requirement.
Deliver on commitments consistently, without repeated reminders or follow-up.
Anticipate risks and communicate solutions before issues become executive escalations.
Navigate organizational politics and cultural differences with maturity and professionalism.
Understand when to be concise, when to challenge assumptions, and when to seek executive decisions.
Balance the human side of integration with the rigor required for business-critical delivery.
Work Arrangement: Remote, with potential client travel depending on engagement requirements.
Qualified professionals may be contacted for an initial discussion and considered for referral to consulting partners based on experience, demonstrated capabilities, and engagement alignment.
Lead with Confidence. Execute with Discipline. Deliver with Integrity.