Project Manager - M&A

RESA Power•St. Louis, MO

18h•$77,000 - $105,000•Onsite

About The Position

Reporting directly to the Director of Special Projects, we are looking for a Project Manager to execute day-to-day management of assigned acquisition integration projects. The Project Manager, working in predictive and hybrid environments, will develop and execute detailed project management plans together with their assigned project team. Projects will focus on strategic growth initiatives and related activities as identified by executive leadership. Common project scopes may include mergers & acquisitions, system migrations, process improvements, market penetration, and software/hardware implementations. The primary focus of this role is leading the post-close integration of newly acquired businesses—coordinating cross-functional workstreams from Day 1 through completion of each integration, often across multiple concurrent acquisitions.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in business or a related field required, and three (3) years project management experience in or a combination of education and experience.
Project and/or program management experience preferred.
PMP, CAPM, or equivalent project management certification preferred.
Experience leading M&A integrations or post-merger integration (PMI) workstreams strongly preferred.
Strong ability to independently manage medium to high risk, high complexity, and high stakeholder visibility projects
Knowledgeable of project management standards, processes, procedures, and guidelines
Knowledgeable of industry project management best practices
Excellent analysis, problem-solving, team, conflict management, and time management skills
Strong verbal and written communication skills
Possess advanced skills in the use of project management software
Demonstrate ability to manage project budgets and timelines
Must be adept with the use of negotiation techniques to reach agreement when there are widely differing viewpoints
Effectively facilitate interaction with executive level
Able to consistently set clear expectations, manage team performance, and build high morale among team members
Critical thinking skills
Collaboration
Excellent organization skills
Emotional Intelligence
Experience with problem solving and facilitation
Proficiency with Smartsheet (required) plus other PM and reporting tools such as Microsoft Project and Jira; comfortable working alongside AI agents and AI-assisted workflows as part of day-to-day delivery
Continuous learner with a proactive mindset toward AI upskilling and cultural change
Active listening skills

Responsibilities

Manage day to day operations alongside the project team and ensure project targets (scope, schedule, cost, EHS, quality) are constantly monitored to ensure project delivery & success
Develop detailed project management & execution plans and implement them
Tracking, reviewing and maintaining a detailed project plan
Managing project deliverables in line with the project plan
Implement the project management plan according to the required project charter
Manage assigned resources to ensure project meets deliverables & expected benefits and at the interest of the organization
As needed, manage contractors and vendors to support projects.
Coordinate cross-functional integration workstreams (Finance, IT/systems, HR/People, Operations, and Commercial) against the integration charter and Day-1/Day-100 milestones
Maintain the RAID log (risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies) and drive timely resolution and escalation across workstream leads
Build and maintain the integration plan in Smartsheet, cascading dependencies and predecessors as close dates and milestones shift
Capture Lessons Learned across concurrent integrations and feed them back into the integration playbook
Working closely with other stakeholders and sub project teams to ensure proper interfacing and alignment in the overall project plan
Resolving cross-functional issues at project level
Providing status update to the key stakeholders via regular meetings and reports
Prepares & delivers change requests and follows standard change control process with the support of the project team and cost controller
Initiating, recording, managing and resolving project issues and escalating when needed to the program owner and project sponsor as described in the project charter
Responsible for all project documentation control and formal communication
Responsible for final documentation gathering and storage/archiving in document system
Ensures adherence to Environmental, Health and Safety guidelines, directives and standards