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PMO Manager – M&A Integration & Transformation
West Midlands – Birmingham and Black Country area | Hybrid working | Permanent
We are recruiting an experienced PMO Manager for an established, partner-led services organisation delivering multiple concurrent acquisition integrations and business-transformation programmes.
This is a portfolio-level role rather than the management of one individual project. Working closely with the Head of PMO, Head of Integration, and senior leadership team, you will provide the governance, programme control, and management information required to maintain visibility and momentum across several complex workstreams.
You will create a single, reliable view of the project portfolio, connecting individual programmes and identifying critical dependencies, resource constraints, emerging risks, and decisions requiring senior-level intervention.
The position is focused on post-acquisition integration and transformation delivery rather than transactional deal execution.
Key responsibilities
- Create and maintain an integrated portfolio view across multiple projects, acquisition integrations, and transformation programmes.
- Develop clear roadmaps showing milestones, critical paths, dependencies, and competing priorities.
- Establish and maintain effective programme plans, RAID logs, decision logs, governance calendars, and reporting standards.
- Produce concise, decision-focused reporting for senior leaders and the Board.
- Monitor delivery across multiple workstreams and constructively challenge slippage, incomplete information, and unclear accountability.
- Support acquisition integrations from pre-completion readiness and Day One through to longer-term integration.
- Coordinate programme activity across People, Finance, IT, Risk, Operations, Business Development, and other corporate functions.
- Identify resource requirements and assess the impact of concurrent projects on organisational capacity.
- Track programme benefits, synergies, and wider strategic outcomes.
- Improve PMO dashboards, templates, systems, and working practices.
- Use technology, automation, and AI to improve reporting and reduce unnecessary administration.
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Applicants will have:
- Significant experience within a PMO, transformation, programme-management, or integration environment.
- Demonstrable experience managing portfolio-level information across multiple complex and concurrent projects.
- Experience supporting acquisition integration or major organisational-transformation programmes.
- Strong knowledge of programme governance, risk management, critical paths, dependencies, resource planning, and benefits realisation.
- Strong analytical and commercial judgement, with the ability to identify where delivery is at risk.
- The confidence and credibility to work with and constructively challenge senior stakeholders.
- Experience producing clear, high-quality management and Board-level reporting.
- Advanced Excel and PowerPoint capability.
- Experience using project or portfolio-management technology.
- Experience within a commercially focused, partner-led, or regulated services organisation is essential. Relevant backgrounds may include accountancy, consultancy, legal, or financial services.
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This role would suit a commercially minded PMO professional who can bring clarity, structure, and control across multiple programmes while maintaining a pragmatic, delivery-focused approach.
We would also welcome applications from experienced Senior PMO Analysts who are ready to take the next step and assume broader responsibility across portfolio governance, reporting, and integration activity. The scope and level of the appointment can be shaped around the experience of the successful candidate.
The role requires regular attendance at a West Midlands office within the Birmingham and Black Country area.
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