Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Alliant Insurance Services is an insurance brokerage and consulting firm providing risk management and benefits solutions. The M&A Integration Project Manager Lead is responsible for leading complex merger and acquisition integration efforts from planning through stabilization, coordinating cross-functional workstreams, operational readiness, stakeholder alignment, and post-close transition activities.
Responsibilities
- Leads complex and concurrent M&A integration projects from planning through stabilization, ensuring integration activities are organized, visible, and aligned with business objectives
- Develops and maintains integration plans, milestones, dependencies, workstream deliverables, risks, issues, decisions, and readiness tracking
- Coordinates cross-functional integration workstreams, including business operations, finance, HR, legal, compliance, IT, facilities, communications, vendors, and acquired agency stakeholders
- Partners with corporate development, business leaders, and functional teams to translate acquisition objectives into actionable integration plans
- Facilitates integration meetings, governance reviews, status discussions, stakeholder updates, and decision-making forums
- Prepares executive-ready updates, dashboards, summaries, and escalation materials that communicate integration progress, risks, issues, and recommended actions
- Identifies, tracks, and escalates risks, issues, dependencies, and decision points that may affect integration timelines, business readiness, service delivery, or stakeholder experience
- Supports due diligence transition planning by helping identify operational impacts, functional requirements, integration assumptions, and post-close priorities
- Coordinates operational readiness activities to support Day 1 preparedness, employee and stakeholder communications, process alignment, system transition planning, and business continuity
- Works with functional leaders and subject matter experts to support integration of policies, processes, tools, reporting, service models, and business practices
- Supports vendor coordination, third-party dependencies, documentation requests, and integration-related deliverables as needed
- Drives consistent communication across project teams, acquired business stakeholders, leadership, and corporate partners to support transparency and alignment
- Contributes to integration playbooks, templates, checklists, lessons learned, reporting practices, and continuous improvement of the M&A integration process
- Provides guidance, coaching, and informal mentorship to project managers, coordinators, and workstream participants supporting integration activities
- Supports post-close stabilization by monitoring open items, confirming operational handoffs, tracking transition activities, and ensuring unresolved issues are routed appropriately
Skills
- Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Information Technology, Computer Science, Project Management, or a related field; or an equivalent combination of education and experience
- Seven (7) or more years of project, program, business integration, corporate integration, M&A integration, operations, or related experience
- Experience leading cross-functional initiatives involving business operations, systems, processes, vendors, stakeholders, and executive reporting
- Experience developing and managing project plans, workstream trackers, status reports, risk and issue logs, and integration communications
- Experience working in a corporate, shared services, insurance, brokerage, financial services, professional services, or acquisition-oriented environment
- Experience supporting mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, business integrations, system migrations, office transitions, or enterprise operational change
- Experience improving integration playbooks, templates, governance routines, reporting standards, or project delivery practices
- Experience supporting due diligence transition planning, Day 1 readiness, post-close stabilization, or acquired business onboarding
- Experience working with senior leaders, business owners, functional department leads, vendors, and cross-functional project teams
- PMP, Agile, Scrum, ITIL, Prosci, or equivalent certification
- Strong knowledge of project management, collaboration, reporting, and documentation tools such as Microsoft Office, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, Smartsheet, or similar platforms
- Knowledge of M&A integration planning, business transition activities, operational readiness, stakeholder coordination, and post-close stabilization
- Practical understanding of change management, business process alignment, communications planning, and operational handoff
- Strong judgment in identifying integration risks, framing escalations, and presenting decision-ready information to leaders
- Strong project and program leadership skills with experience managing complex, cross-functional initiatives
- Strong executive communication, written communication, facilitation, meeting leadership, and status reporting skills
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage competing priorities, changing timelines, and multiple workstreams
- Ability to develop project plans, timelines, dashboards, issue logs, risk registers, dependency trackers, decision logs, and readiness materials
- Ability to influence without direct authority and build alignment across matrixed teams and stakeholder groups
- Ability to coordinate work across business operations, finance, HR, legal, compliance, IT, facilities, communications, vendors, and acquired business stakeholders
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