Role Overview

The Integration Project Manager will facilitate the end-to-end integration of SiXworks into IBM. You will design and execute the integration roadmap, ensuring systems, processes, people, and culture align seamlessly. Your leadership will keep stakeholders informed, risks mitigated, and timelines on track throughout the integration phase.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the overall integration project plan, including milestones, deliverables, dependencies, and resource allocations.
• Lead cross-functional integration work streams (IT systems, operations, finance, HR, legal, and commercial) to align processes and tools.
• Coordinate due diligence findings into actionable tasks; track progress and resolve blockers.
• Facilitate change management activities: stakeholder communications, training plans, and culture-alignment workshops.
• Identify, monitor, and mitigate integration risks and issues; escalate critical concerns to senior leadership.
• Liaise with internal and external stakeholders (executive sponsors, department heads, vendor partners) to secure buy-in and drive accountability.
• Manage integration budgets, track spend, and report on financial impacts and synergies.
• Generate and distribute regular status reports, dashboards, and presentations for the Integration Steering Committee.
• Ensure all integration activities comply with corporate policies, regulatory requirements, and data-privacy standards.

Qualifications

Education & Certifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field would be advantageous.
• Project Management Professional (PMP), PRINCE2 Practitioner, or equivalent is highly preferred.
• Change management certification.

Experience

• 5–8 years of project management experience, with at least 2 years focused on mergers, acquisitions, or systems integrations.
• Demonstrated track record managing work stream, cross-company integration projects.
• Hands-on experience with integration tools and platforms (e.g., ERP migrations, CRM consolidations).
• Proven ability to work within fast-paced, matrixes environments and manage third-party vendors.

Skills & Competencies

• Exceptional stakeholder management and communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities, with keen attention to detail.
• Proficient in project planning tools (MS Project, Smartsheet) and collaboration platforms (JIRA, Confluence).
• Financial acumen: budget creation, cost-benefit analysis, synergy tracking.
• Risk management expertise: identification, assessment, mitigation, and reporting.
• Change leadership: driving adoption, managing resistance, and fostering cultural alignment.

Personal Attributes

• Resilient under pressure and adaptable to shifting priorities.
• Collaborative mindset with a bias for action.
• Highly organised, methodical, and outcome-driven.
• Empathetic leader who builds trust and motivates diverse teams.

Location & Contract

• Based in Cody Technology Park (hybrid working model available), with potential to travel to various external sites.
• Fixed-term contract (9 months) with possibility of extension or permanent placement.

Environment and Benefits

We have modern offices in Cody Technology Park and have well established remote working arrangements.

For potential employees we offer an attractive range of benefits, including:

• Exciting and interesting work

• Bonus scheme

• Casual dress

• Free hot and cold drinks in our own, modern kitchen/break-out

• Secure, on-site parking, cafe, restaurant and gym facilities

• Company events & social hours

• Professional Development Opportunities

• Perkbox Employee Benefits system

• Bike to Work scheme

• Competitive Salary & Benefits Package

• Contributory Pension Scheme

• Maternity / Paternity Pay

• Friendly & Supportive Team

Our SiXworks team is a fusion of brilliance, featuring senior operational, technical, and business leaders from various industries and the armed forces.

We're also powered by a league of extraordinary IT engineers, architects, developers, and project managers. Together, we're an unstoppable force of innovation!

SiXworks’ expertise includes secure-by-design, cloud computing and services, advanced network, platform and infrastructure design, rapid application development, cross-security domain systems, multi-source data platforms, cyber vulnerability mitigation and intelligence systems.

SiXworks provides supplier-agnostic, technical and business consultancy to customers, and champions opensource and best of breed technologies.

To date we have worked exclusively in the Defence and Security Sector, providing IT innovation projects and programmes, analysis and output-based consultancy.

SiXworks is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organisation. SiXworks will be the hiring entity. By proceeding with this application, you understand that SiXworks will share your personal information with other IBM subsidiaries involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located. More Information on how IBM protects your personal information, including the safeguards in case of cross-border data transfer, are available here:https://www.ibm.com/privacy

To be eligible for the role, you must hold UK nationality (British Citizenship).

It would be advantageous if you have sole UK nationality, but if you hold dual nationality with one being British, you will still be considered. Please could other nationalities held be disclosed.