Program Delivery Lead, Merger Integration (Atlanta, GA)

Program Delivery Lead, Merger Integration

Lewis James Professional is seeking a Program Delivery Lead, Merger Integration for a leading financial services client. This consulting role sits within the Integration Management Office (IMO) and will drive hands-on delivery across marketing and communications workstreams during a bank merger. The ideal candidate is an experienced Program Manager or Delivery Lead with direct merger or acquisition integration experience, strong cross-functional coordination skills, and the ability to execute in complex, fast-paced environments.

Key Responsibilities –

• Lead day-to-day delivery within the IMO for a bank merger, managing plans, milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, decisions, governance, status reporting, and delivery cadence.
• Drive marketing and communications integration workstreams, including brand and identity changes, signage, website and intranet updates, email consolidation, sales tools, collateral, business cards, and customer communications.
• Partner with Marketing, Communications, Creative, Product, Data, Technology, and Operations teams to move initiatives from planning through implementation.
• Work with Data and Technology teams on communication requirements, distribution lists, and customer outreach.
• Identify and escalate blockers, delivery concerns, risks, issues, and decisions; prepare concise executive-ready updates.
• Partner with project, program, analyst, and governance leaders to maintain alignment across the broader integration program.

Required Qualifications –

• Proven experience as a Program Manager, Program Delivery Lead, Delivery Lead, or similar hands-on delivery role.
• Direct experience with mergers, post-merger integrations, acquisition integrations, divestitures, or large-scale enterprise integrations.
• Banking or financial services experience.
• Strong program execution skills across plans, milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, governance, reporting, and decision management.
• Experience coordinating complex cross-functional workstreams and stakeholders.
• Ability to operate strategically and tactically while personally driving work forward.
• Strong communication skills, including influencing without direct authority and communicating with senior leadership.
• Comfortable working in ambiguous, fast-moving integration environments.

Preferred Qualifications –

• Experience with customer-facing bank integration impacts, including brand identity, signage, digital channels, customer communications, product changes, card reissues, and collateral.

For immediate consideration, please click “Apply” and use Job Code BHJOB11837_4429. You may also send a copy of your resume to: resumes@lewisjamesprofessional.com and enter only the following job code in the subject line: BHJOB11837_4429. Lewis James Professional is an Equal Opportunity Employer. M/F/D/V