Freelance remote job M&A Project Manager - Pre-Merger Activity

Are you an experienced Project Manager with M&A or pre-merger experience? Do you have experience of planning, monitoring, and controlling end-to-end projects across business change, communications, financial and legal operations? Let Informed Recruitment help you to achieve your potential with an exciting opportunity for a Project Manager to work as part of a team focused on business merger activity. As a specialist provider of resource to the Property, Public Sector, and Technology markets, we are delighted to be partnering with a social enterprise offering you the opportunity to make a difference in the merger planning of two organisations and potentially beyond. This contract is offered outside of IR35, initially on a 2/3 day per week basis, with scope to extend.

The purpose of the role is to scope, lead and deliver multiple business change projects covering Financials, Legal, Data, People and Communications arising as part of a merger. Your day-to-day responsibilities will include creating and eliciting approval for business cases; managing end-to-end project delivery; PID & project plan creation; business benefit definition; forecasting, estimating, and managing uncertainty, whilst being able to stick to deadlines, work with contractors and third parties to deliver services agreed within KPI budgets and timescales, liaise with heads of departments to drive improvements and new technologies and tools create an efficient working practice amongst other responsibilities.

Must Have

• Demonstrable commercial experience of full life cycle Project Management.
• Experience developing and eliciting approval for business cases.
• Pre-Merger & Acquisitions experience covering Legal & Financials.
• Proven experience of managing business change
• Professional qualifications in Project Management, such as PMP, Prince2, APM or similar

Nice to Have

• Public Sector, Housing, or Education sector industry experience.

As an individual you will have experience in both matrix management and line management of cross functional teams with effective and strong leaderships and interpersonal skills. Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills both verbally and written. A proven track record of managing both large and complex budgets alongside in-depth knowledge of Microsoft office. The role is offered on an initial 3-month contract basis working 2/3 days per week, outside of IR35, with scope to extend. An immediate start is required and, as such, interview appointments for suitable experienced consultants are available immediately.

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