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
