Job Description
As the Manager - Digital Integration, you will play a crucial role in our Strategy - DCU department, driving digital integration initiatives across our Group portfolio. Your primary responsibility is to plan and manage post-merger integration activities from a technological standpoint, ensuring a seamless and strategic transition. You will lead the development of integration strategies, playbooks, and roadmaps, working closely with business and technology stakeholders to assess and execute integration plans effectively.
Responsibilities
- Key responsibilities summary:
- Own the end-to-end planning and coordination of digital and technology post-merger integration activities.
- Produce integration assessments and recommendations for acquisitions, JVs and partially integrated entities.
- Define Day 1, Day 100 and target-state technology integration plans.
- Support pre-deal and post-deal technology due diligence activity.
- Coordinate the relevant group and cluster technology teams to mobilize and oversee integration delivery.
- Develop group-level PMI playbooks, tools and standards for digital and technology integration.
- Monitor portfolio integration progress and maintain a view of integration status across entities.
- Provide structured reporting and decision support to senior leadership.
- Lead the development of digital and technology integration strategies for acquisitions, mergers, joint ventures and other strategic portfolio transactions.
- Define the integration approach for each transaction, including the level and pace of integration across applications, infrastructure, data, cybersecurity, identity, support and governance.
- Develop structured integration plans covering Day 1, Day 100 and longer-term transition milestones.
- Ensure integration plans are aligned to deal rationale, business priorities, synergy objectives and operational realities.
- Support technology due diligence activities during transaction evaluation stages, with a focus on integration implications, technology risks, separation constraints, cost drivers and synergy opportunities.
- Assess the target entity's current technology landscape, including core business applications, infrastructure, networks, hosting, data, cybersecurity, vendors and support arrangements.
- Identify key integration considerations, dependencies, red flags, major cost items and likely transition complexity.
- Translate due diligence findings into practical integration hypotheses and post-close planning inputs.
- Assess existing portfolio companies and entities that are not yet fully integrated, and define practical roadmaps for further digital and technology integration where appropriate.
- Recommend target-state integration outcomes, sequencing and decision points for each entity.
- Work with relevant clusters and group stakeholders to align on roadmap priorities, delivery approach and ownership.
- Maintain visibility of integration maturity and progress across the portfolio.
- Develop and continuously improve digital and technology integration playbooks, templates, checklists and governance standards.
- Establish pragmatic prototypes and repeatable models for common integration scenarios, such as full acquisition integration, partial integration, JV connectivity, shared services adoption and transitional operating models.
- Capture lessons learned from completed integrations and use them to refine tools, methods and decision frameworks.
- Promote a more repeatable, scalable and lower-risk integration capability across the Group.
- Coordinate with group digital and technology teams, including enterprise architecture, infrastructure, enterprise applications, cybersecurity, digital value management and service teams, to define and oversee integration activity.
- Ensure technology workstreams are properly structured, dependencies are clear, risks are surfaced early and execution is governed effectively.
- Track progress, escalate key issues and support decision-making across leadership stakeholders.
- Act as the central coordinator for digital and technology integration planning, while working through the relevant delivery teams for execution.
- Support governance of technology integration initiatives through clear plans, milestone tracking, status reporting, issue management and decision logs.
- Ensure integration planning reflects both value capture and risk management, balancing speed, cost, security, service continuity and long-term maintainability.
- Help shape business cases, integration assumptions and resource requirements where needed.
- Track whether planned integration outcomes are being delivered in line with intended benefits.
- 1. Post-merger integration strategy and planning
- Lead the development of digital and technology integration strategies for acquisitions, mergers, joint ventures and other strategic portfolio transactions.
- Define the integration approach for each transaction, including the level and pace of integration across applications, infrastructure, data, cybersecurity, identity, support and governance.
- Develop structured integration plans covering Day 1, Day 100 and longer-term transition milestones.
- Ensure integration plans are aligned to deal rationale
- 2. Technology due diligence support
- Support technology due diligence activities during transaction evaluation stages, with a focus on integration implications, technology risks, separation constraints, cost drivers and synergy opportunities.
- Assess the target entity's current technology landscape, including core business applications, infrastructure, networks, hosting, data, cybersecurity, vendors and support arrangements.
- Identify key integration considerations, dependencies, red flags, major cost items and likely transition complexity.
- Translate due diligence findings into practical integration hypotheses and post-close planning inputs.
- 3. Integration roadmap design for portfolio entities
- Assess existing portfolio companies and entities that are not yet fully integrated, and define practical roadmaps for further digital and technology integration where appropriate.
- Recommend target-state integration outcomes, sequencing and decision points for each entity.
- Work with relevant clusters and group stakeholders to align on roadmap priorities, delivery approach and ownership.
- Maintain visibility of integration maturity and progress across the portfolio.
- 4. Playbooks, standards and prototypes
- Develop and continuously improve digital and technology integration playbooks, templates, checklists and governance standards.
- Establish pragmatic prototypes and repeatable models for common integration scenarios, such as full acquisition integration, partial integration, JV connectivity, shared services adoption and transitional operating models.
- Capture lessons learned from completed integrations and use them to refine tools, methods and decision frameworks.
- Promote a more repeatable, scalable and lower-risk integration capability across the Group.
- 5. Cross-functional coordination and oversight
- Coordinate with group digital and technology teams, including enterprise architecture, infrastructure, enterprise applications, cybersecurity, digital value management and service teams, to define and oversee integration activity.
- Ensure technology workstreams are properly structured, dependencies are clear, risks are surfaced early and execution is governed effectively.
- Track progress, escalate key issues and support decision-making across leadership stakeholders.
- Act as the central coordinator for digital and technology integration planning, while working through the relevant delivery teams for execution.
- 6. Integration governance and value focus
- Support governance of technology integration initiatives through clear plans, milestone tracking, status reporting, issue management and decision logs.
- Ensure integration planning reflects both value capture and risk management, balancing speed, cost, security, service continuity and long-term maintainability.
- Help shape business cases, integration assumptions and resource requirements where needed.
- Track whether planned integration outcomes are being delivered in line with intended benefits.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field. Degrees in Maths, Physics and Liberal Arts are also accepted when relevant experiences are demonstrated.
- Master's degree or MBA is advantageous.
- Relevant certifications such as PMP, PRINCE2, TOGAF, ITIL, or M&A / integration-related training would be beneficial
About Us
AD Ports Group
A Global Player
Through organic growth and partnerships, AD Ports Group has developed over the years into an integrated premier enabler of trade, industrialisation, and economic diversification. Established by Emiri Decree and owned by ADQ, one of the region's largest holding companies with a broad portfolio of major enterprises spanning key sectors of Abu Dhabi's diversified economy.
AD Ports Group is committed to building elite trade and logistics propositions. As trade has grown, so have we. Today, we are an integrated business across 5 clusters – Digital, Economic Cities & Free Zones, Logistics, Maritime, and Ports connecting global maritime routes and international trading partners.
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