Integration Programme Manager – 12-month FTC

Role Overview

• Integration planning and execution
• Partner with key stakeholders to shape and drive key activities for Day 1 readiness (deal close expected Q3 2026)
• Take ownership of integration outcomes
• ensuring decisions are made, trade-offs are clear, and quick progress is made
• Amplify Depop’s growth trajectory through progressing high impact value creation opportunities, alongside Depop’s inhouse Strategy team
• Programme management: Identify and prioritise key internal user/business needs and constraints, ensure these are clearly understood across companies and delivered effectively through sequencing, clear milestones, and success measures
• Provide day to day leadership of the overarching, cross-company integration programme, collaborating seamlessly with other integration leads, programme managers and functional leaders to sequence work effectively and build clear lines of communication across teams and companies
• Anticipate and surface risks and dependencies early, driving their mitigation to minimise disruption and rework
• Take a user centric approach, ensuring the wider programme is set-up for success with the most appropriate reporting cadences, touchpoints, tools and approaches
• Craft and share high quality communications that succinctly deliver key messages to broad audiences including senior executives
• Support leadership in aligning priorities and making trade-offs across organisations to maintain clarity and focus
• Advancement of Depop’s outcome orientated operating model
• Apply your in-depth knowledge of large, complex integrations to facilitate, coach and share learnings which empower teams to iteratively improve their ways of working and deliver more effectively
• Contribute to the Internal Ops Community of Practice where we share insights, reflections, approaches, and learnings

Requirements

• You have significant experience leading M&A integrations with a proven track record in leading complex programmes or multi-workstream initiatives, ensuring alignment and resolving dependencies and conflicts swiftly and amicably
• You have excellent stakeholder management, influencing and relationship building skills, which you use to ensure visibility and collaboration across businesses as well as technical and functional boundaries
• You have exceptional communication skills, and can tailor your message to suit your audience’s needs, using empathy and active listening to read situations quickly
• You’re adept at driving accountability, and have strong command skills, you’re not afraid to take challenging stances with internal & external stakeholders
• You’re user and business value driven, with hands on experience collaboratively scoping, kicking off and delivering integration programmes, articulating what success looks like, why it looks like that and how to measure it
• You are adept at working in ambiguity and can identify, surface and resolve risks and uncertainty, and are comfortable operating in situations where there is no playbook, defining the right approach as you go
• You’re highly organised and proactive and able to problem-solve and optimise programme systems and processes
• Approachable with advanced skills in facilitation, coaching and mediation, you’ll have a natural talent for working with others and creating the space for strategic and timely decision-making
• You have a growth mindset and actively seek and give feedback as well as ways to share learnings with your peers
• You’re an innovative thinker, with an instinct for spotting opportunities and synergies

Benefits

• Health + Mental Wellbeing
• PMI and cash plan healthcare access with Bupa
• Subsidised counselling and coaching with Self Space
• Cycle to Work scheme with options from Evans or the Green Commute Initiative
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for 24/7 confidential support
• Mental Health First Aiders across the business for support and signposting
• Work/Life Balance: 25 days annual leave with option to carry over up to 5 days
• Flexible Working: MyMode hybrid-working model with Flex, Office Based, and Remote options *role dependant
• All offices are dog-friendly
• Ability to work abroad for 4 weeks per year in UK tax treaty countries
• Family Life: 18 weeks of paid parental leave for full-time regular employees
• IVF leave, shared parental leave, and paid emergency parent/carer leave
• Learn + Grow: Development discussions to support continuous learning and professional growth.
• Upskilling our employees with company wide training workshops, materials and resources.
• Your Future: Life Insurance (financial compensation of 3x your salary)
• Pension matching up to 6% of full base salary with Aviva