Manager - Digital Integration

Overview

• As the Manager - Digital Integration, you will play a crucial role in our Strategy - DCU department, driving digital integration initiatives across our Group portfolio.
• Your primary responsibility is to plan and manage post-merger integration activities from a technological standpoint, ensuring a seamless and strategic transition.
• You will lead the development of integration strategies, playbooks, and roadmaps, working closely with business and technology stakeholders to assess and execute integration plans effectively.
• Responsibilities: Key responsibilities summary:
• Own the end-to-end planning and coordination of digital and technology post-merger integration activities.
• Produce integration assessments and recommendations for acquisitions, JVs and partially integrated entities.
• Define Day 1, Day 100 and target-state technology integration plans.
• Support pre-deal and post-deal technology due diligence activity.
• Coordinate the relevant group and cluster technology teams to mobilize and oversee integration delivery.
• Develop group-level PMI playbooks, tools and standards for digital and technology integration.
• Monitor portfolio integration progress and maintain a view of integration status across entities.
• Provide structured reporting and decision support to senior leadership.
• Lead the development of digital and technology integration strategies for acquisitions, mergers, joint ventures and other strategic portfolio transactions.
• Define the integration approach for each transaction, including the level and pace of integration across applications, infrastructure, data, cybersecurity, identity, support and governance.
• Develop structured integration plans covering Day 1, Day 100 and longer-term transition milestones.
• Ensure integration plans are aligned to deal rationale, business priorities, synergy objectives and operational realities.
• Support technology due diligence activities during transaction evaluation stages, with a focus on integration implications, technology risks, separation constraints, cost drivers and synergy opportunities.
• Assess the target entity’s current technology landscape, including core business applications, infrastructure, networks, hosting, data, cybersecurity, vendors and support arrangements.
• Identify key integration considerations, dependencies, red flags, major cost items and likely transition complexity.
• Translate due diligence findings into practical integration hypotheses and post-close planning inputs.
• Assess existing portfolio companies and entities that are not yet fully integrated, and define practical roadmaps for further digital and technology integration where appropriate.
• Recommend target-state integration outcomes, sequencing and decision points for each entity.
• Work with relevant clusters and group stakeholders to align on roadmap priorities, delivery approach and ownership.
• Maintain visibility of integration maturity and progress across the portfolio.
• Develop and continuously improve digital and technology integration playbooks, templates, checklists and governance standards.
• Establish pragmatic prototypes and repeatable models for common integration scenarios, such as full acquisition integration, partial integration, JV connectivity, shared services adoption and transitional operating models.
• Capture lessons learned from completed integrations and use them to refine tools, methods and decision frameworks.
• Promote a more repeatable, scalable and lower-risk integration capability across the Group.
• Coordinate with group digital and technology teams, including enterprise architecture, infrastructure, enterprise applications, cybersecurity, digital value management and service teams, to define and oversee integration activity.
• Ensure technology workstreams are properly structured, dependencies are clear, risks are surfaced early and execution is governed effectively.
• Track progress, escalate key issues and support decision-making across leadership stakeholders.
• Act as the central coordinator for digital and technology integration planning, while working through the relevant delivery teams for execution.
• Support governance of technology integration initiatives through clear plans, milestone tracking, status reporting, issue management and decision logs.
• Ensure integration planning reflects both value capture and risk management, balancing speed, cost, security, service continuity and long-term maintainability.
• Help shape business cases, integration assumptions and resource requirements where needed.
• Track whether planned integration outcomes are being delivered in line with intended benefits.
• 1.
• Post-merger integration strategy and planning
• Lead the development of digital and technology integration strategies for acquisitions, mergers, joint ventures and other strategic portfolio transactions.
• Define the integration approach for each transaction, including the level and pace of integration across applications, infrastructure, data, cybersecurity, identity, support and governance.
• Develop structured integration plans covering Day 1, Day 100 and longer-term transition milestones.
• Ensure integration plans are aligned to deal rationale
• 2.
• Technology due diligence support
• Support technology due diligence activities during transaction evaluation stages, with a focus on integration implications, technology risks, separation constraints, cost drivers and synergy opportunities.
• Assess the target entity’s current technology landscape, including core business applications, infrastructure, networks, hosting, data, cybersecurity, vendors and support arrangements.
• Identify key integration considerations, dependencies, red flags, major cost items and likely transition complexity.
• Translate due diligence findings into practical integration hypotheses and post-close planning inputs.
• 3.
• Integration roadmap design for portfolio entities
• Assess existing portfolio companies and entities that are not yet fully integrated, and define practical roadmaps for further digital and technology integration where appropriate.
• Recommend target-state integration outcomes, sequencing and decision points for each entity.
• Work with relevant clusters and group stakeholders to align on roadmap priorities, delivery approach and ownership.
• Maintain visibility of integration maturity and progress across the portfolio.
• 4.
• Playbooks, standards and prototypes
• Develop and continuously improve digital and technology integration playbooks, templates, checklists and governance standards.
• Establish pragmatic prototypes and repeatable models for common integration scenarios, such as full acquisition integration, partial integration, JV connectivity, shared services adoption and transitional operating models.
• Capture lessons learned from completed integrations and use them to refine tools, methods and decision frameworks.
• Promote a more repeatable, scalable and lower-risk integration capability across the Group.
• 5.
• Cross-functional coordination and oversight
• Coordinate with group digital and technology teams, including enterprise architecture, infrastructure, enterprise applications, cybersecurity, digital value management and service teams, to define and oversee integration activity.
• Ensure technology workstreams are properly structured, dependencies are clear, risks are surfaced early and execution is governed effectively.
• Track progress, escalate key issues and support decision-making across leadership stakeholders.
• Act as the central coordinator for digital and technology integration planning, while working through the relevant delivery teams for execution.
• 6.
• Integration governance and value focus
• Support governance of technology integration initiatives through clear plans, milestone tracking, status reporting, issue management and decision logs.
• Ensure integration planning reflects both value capture and risk management, balancing speed, cost, security, service continuity and long-term maintainability.
• Help shape business cases, integration assumptions and resource requirements where needed.
• Track whether planned integration outcomes are being delivered in line with intended benefits.
• Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field. Degrees in Maths, Physics and Liberal Arts are also accepted when relevant experiences are demonstrated.
• Master’s degree or MBA is advantageous.
• Relevant certifications such as PMP, PRINCE2, TOGAF, ITIL, or M&A / integration-related training would be beneficial