Integration
Project Manager
About
Ecology Group
Ecology Group is building a best-in-class environmental consultancy platform that unites expert, values-driven teams to deliver service excellence and lasting positive impact. Founded with a vision to create a market-leading presence in multi-disciplinary environmental services, we are guided by a clear purpose: supporting sustainable change through high-value projects and client-focused solutions.
Our approach combines deep technical expertise with strategic investment in people and technology. We bring together highly skilled professionals and foster their growth, creating a team driven by expertise and passion. Simultaneously, we are making significant investments in advanced technology – including AI, drones, sensors, and digital project management
systems – to enhance efficiency and deliver superior outcomes for clients and the environment.
By combining talent and innovation, we provide high-value consultancy solutions that tackle complex environmental challenges, foster collaboration across disciplines, and generate measurable, positive impacts on both society and nature.
Ecology Group is backed by Ansor, a fast-growing, entrepreneurial, non-traditional private equity firm that builds market leading growth businesses. Ansor uses a ‘buy and build’ approach focused on creating innovative market leading businesses through the combination of successful smaller businesses and organic growth.
Role
Overview
The Integration Project Manager will be responsible for planning and delivering integration activity following acquisitions to support Ecology Group’s growth strategy. The integration manager will work closely with the Head of Technology and M&A team to enable them to deliver the integration plans.
All flexible working options considered.
Reporting line: CFO
Key
Responsibilities
Integration, Planning and Delivery
- Develop and maintain the end-to-end integration plan (workstreams, milestones, dependencies, resources, and critical path) aligned to the deal rationale and integration objectives.
- Manage transition from legacy systems on to group systems including Finance, HR, Project Management and IT
- Drive Day 1 readiness planning, ensuring clear ownership of critical actions across people, process, systems, customer/supplier continuity, and controls.
Stakeholder Management
- Stakeholder Alignment: Ensure buy-in from new management teams in
understanding the roadmap and alignment on the plan
- Build strong relationships across teams, bringing clarity, structure, and pace in a high-change environment.
Training
- Provide training on Finance, Project Management and HR platforms to new acquisitions
Performance and Reporting
- Post-Integration Review; Conduct three and six month reviews to capture lessons learned
- Use Technology to create dashboards and track and report on progress Continuous Improvement
- Playbook Development: Build and refine an integration playbook to streamline future acquisition onboarding
- Best Practice Sharing: Capture insights and distribute across the group
- Scalability Framework: Ensure integration process and handle growth of c. 10 acquisitions per year
Person Specification
- Significant experience in IT project or programme management roles. Post-acquisition integration experience is beneficial.
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience operating in fast-paced, high-growth environments (private equity, professional services experience desirable).
- Experience coordinating multiple workstreams (e.g., IT, Finance, HR/People, Operations, Commercial)
- Strong governance and reporting capability, including senior stakeholder communication and structured issue escalation.
- Hands on and willing to get stuck in at all levels to ensure delivery.
- Comfortable working with ambiguity, sensitive information, and competing priorities in an M&A environment.
- German or other European language skills is beneficial
- Willing to travel
