The business

team.blue was created in June 2019 by the merger of regional leading hosting providers Combell Group, Register Group and TransIP Group and offers digital presence and enablement tools such as domains, hosting, email, VPS and applications to over 2.5 million SME, SoHo and developer customers across Europe. The group consists of several well-known and respected brands, spanning across 17 European countries and operating under several brand names for each jurisdiction – with a bloodline that represents total commitment to customers.

Your opportunity

The Post-Merger Integration Project Manager is responsible for overseeing and coordinating the end-to-end acquisition and integration process of target companies from a value creation and functional integration point of view, starting from the initial assessment of the post-merger integration plan down to the execution of all operational action plans. In addition, contributes to maintaining process’ assets and standards in tight collaboration with related group functions.

Responsibilities

• Integration team coordination
  Once due diligence process starts for an assigned target company, ensures all integration team members (typically 1 representative per group function) perform their functional assessment using pre-defined checklists, questions and team.blue standards.
• Integration & value creation plans consolidation and elicitation
  Creates and maintains the overall integration & value creation plan. Ensure all actions are sufficiently detailed and that realistic timing and staffing assumptions (who does it by when) are taken. On specific deals, may take the value creation plan definition overall responsibility (VCP lead role).
• Input into investment decision
  Provide critical inputs to top management decisions to proceed or not with the acquisition.
• Post-acquisition monitoring and reporting
  Monitor the execution of value creation and integration plans, including synergies realisation.
• Process tooling and continuous improvement
  Implement improvement actions to ensure efficiency of the process on the long run, including automation tools. Update, maintain and communicate the process’ assets (templates, checklists….) accordingly.
• Standards definition, publication and maintenance
  Support the definition, documentation, publication and later update of a set of group standards to be applied by default to each coming acquisition as a base of discussion for their to-be situation post integration. Note: standards can be systems, processes, organizational setups, document templates, project templates, etc. approved internally as group policies or best practices.

What the ideal candidate has      

• University / Post Graduate (Master Degree), Project management certification (e.g. PMP).
• Experience of project management in diverse functional environments (the more diverse, the better) with track record of on-time, on-quality, on-budget delivery.
• Experience of leading change in complex environments while maintaining healthy and productive relationships with all stakeholders.
• Relevant exposure to the context and drivers of several diverse corporate functions (Product, Marketing & Sales, Technology, Finance, HR, Legal, Data…) and demonstrated ability to collaborate with them is a plus.

Behavioural Competencies:

• Global perspective.
• Plans and aligns.
• Collaborates.
• Balances stakeholders.
• Optimised work processes.
• Interpersonal savvy.
• Action oriented.
• Ensures accountability.