ECS IT M&A Delivery Manager

ECS IT M&A Delivery Manager

The successful candidate will drive the successful delivery of complex merger and acquisition integration programmes by providing strategic oversight, disciplined programme governance, and decisive leadership across critical business and technology workstreams. This role sits at the centre of a high‑stakes transformation agenda, shaping the future operating model and steering the redesign of the technology landscape to ensure full adoption, alignment, and long‑term value realisation across the combined enterprise. The role demands exceptional executive presence, strong organisational and stakeholder‑management capability, and the ability to influence and mobilise international, cross‑functional teams in both on‑site and remote environments.

📊 Your day-to-day activities:

• Provide executive oversight of end‑to‑end M&A integration programmes, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives, value‑capture targets, and the overall transformation roadmap.

• Establish and enforce robust programme governance, decision‑making frameworks, and reporting standards across all integration workstreams.

• Act as a senior advisor to leadership on integration risks, dependencies, and mitigation strategies, ensuring informed and timely decisions.

• Collaborate with 3rd Party development agencies and internal scrum teams, providing expertise to unlock potential delivery risks and issues.

• Oversee the redesign and implementation of the future technology landscape, ensuring systems, data, and digital capabilities are integrated and scalable

• Drive adoption and change‑readiness across the combined organisation, ensuring new ways of working are embedded and sustained.

• Build strong relationships with senior business leaders, functional heads, and external partners to ensure alignment and commitment to integration priorities.
• Communicate progress, challenges, and strategic implications to executive stakeholders with clarity, precision, and influence.

💡 Who we’re looking for

• Extensive experience leading large‑scale M&A integration, divestiture, or transformation programmes within complex multinational environments.
• Ability to translate strategic deal objectives into actionable integration plans, with strong expertise in operating model design, organisational restructuring, and technology integration.
• Proven track record managing multi‑workstream portfolios with robust governance, risk management, and delivery discipline.
• Strong understanding of enterprise technology landscapes, digital platforms, and data integration challenges in post‑deal contexts.
• Exceptional communication and leadership skills, adept at navigating ambiguity and driving clarity for executive stakeholders;
• Relevant certifications and a business/technology degree are advantageous (e.g., PMP, MSP, Agile/Scrum) 
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in business, technology, or a related field preferred.

Please note that this role requires approximately 40% travel and is based in Turin

Fluent English Required

✨ In return we offer:Long Description

• Comprehensive welfare package including short working week during summer months
• Hybrid working policy (10 days a month remote working)
• Company restaurant service
• Access to our corporate gym
• A fast paced and dynamic international context

💬 What next? 

• Our Talent Acquisition Team will assess your application and if you have what we’re looking for, you'll be contacted for an initial interview
• If you make it to the short list, you’ll be interviewed by the Hiring Manager and if necessary, other members of the hiring panel
• In some cases, you may be required to show us your skills via technical challenge.

☕ Who we are:

Our Group was founded in Turin in 1895, has been owned by the Lavazza family for four generations. As one of the world’s most important coffee roasters, we operate in more than 140 countries through our brands, subsidiaries and distributors, with a total of over 5,500 employees.

Every day we operate in all sectors of the coffee industry, offering our products through every channel and positioning our brands as a high-quality blend.

We are a community of single origins united into a perfect blend, humans enriching one another through our mutual diversity.

Awakening a better world every morning: the commitment we make every single day.

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