Chief Integration & Transformation Officer

Chief Integration & Transformation Officer

• Location: UK-based with international remit
• Contract type: Permanent
• Reports to: CEO

When you’re scaling at pace, buying brilliantly, and integrating relentlessly, there’s one thing that determines whether the value creation plan becomes reality: your ability to bring people with you. This newly created Chief Integration & Transformation Officer (CITO) role sits right at that fulcrum.

It’s a rare opportunity to shape the future of a fast-growing, PE-backed TIC group operating across the UK, US, Ireland, and Italy – and to do so with the full backing of the CEO, the Board, and a sponsor who understands the power of disciplined integration.

This is not a back-office programme role. It’s a people-first, enterprise-wide leadership mandate with real influence, real complexity, and real impact.

The group is in a classic buy-and-build phase – but with the added nuance of regulated, people-intensive services where accreditation, culture, and client trust are non-negotiable.

Your job is to make the whole greater than the sum of its parts.

To turn acquisitions into a unified, high-performing group.

To deliver synergies without losing the soul of the businesses joining us.

To ensure growth never outruns our ability to integrate well.

• Integration, end-to-end: You’ll own the full integration lifecycle across all markets – from diligence to full operational merger. You’ll refine and embed a group playbook that respects the realities of TIC: accreditation continuity, workforce transition, client retention, and cultural alignment. And you’ll report progress and value delivery with clarity and confidence to the Board and sponsor.
• People leadership & change adoption: You’ll be the visible, credible, energising leader who helps thousands of people navigate change with confidence. You’ll build a high-performing transformation office, design organisational structures that work, manage TUPE with empathy and rigour, and create a culture that feels cohesive without erasing local identity.
• Operational transformation: You’ll drive multi-year programmes that standardise operating models, rationalise duplicated functions, and create clarity of accountability across the group – always balancing efficiency with the realities of regulated service delivery.
• Technology & AI partnership: You’ll partner closely with the CTPO to ensure integration and technology roadmaps reinforce each other. You’ll bring a commercially grounded view of where AI and automation can genuinely enhance auditor productivity and client value – and champion adoption across a people-heavy workforce.
• Regulatory & accreditation oversight: You’ll provide executive sponsorship to ensure nothing in the integration journey compromises accreditation integrity. You won’t own the technical agenda – but you’ll know enough to ask the right questions, set the right guardrails, and represent the group credibly with external bodies.
• Stakeholder leadership: You’ll be a trusted voice with the PE sponsor, a steady hand at the Board table, and a collaborative partner across the ExCo – particularly with the CFO, CTPO, and People leadership.

• A proven track record of leading complex buy-and-build integration in PE-backed or listed environments
• Deep experience in people- and client-centric services businesses
• A history of leading large-scale change that actually sticks
• Comfort operating in regulated environments
• Strong commercial judgement and investor fluency
• Real-world experience of TUPE, organisational redesign, and workforce transition
• Emotional intelligence that’s as strong as your operational discipline

Bonus points for: TIC or professional services experience, multi-jurisdiction…