Integration and Transformation Executive Leader

As Everway continues its ambitious growth journey, we are seeking a seasoned and strategic leader to head our integration and operational excellence efforts. This role will  oversee the seamless integration of newly acquired businesses into the Everway ecosystem.

In addition to post-deal integration, this role will lead the Project Management Office (PMO), ensuring that 2026 strategic initiatives are translated into actionable, measurable plans that deliver real business impact. The ideal candidate will combine commercial acumen with operational rigour and a deep understanding of how to align people, processes, and technology to achieve sustainable growth and operational excellence.

The role requires candidates to be based in the Eastern US.

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate and manage all post-deal integration activity, ensuring the smooth operational, cultural, and strategic alignment of acquired entities.
• Oversee the development and execution of organisational and functional integration playbooks that drive synergies, enable scalability, and accelerate value creation.
• Partner with senior functional leaders (Finance, People, Product, Technology, and Commercial) to ensure consistent delivery of integration outcomes, operational readiness, scalability, and sustainable value creation post-integration.

• Lead the Project Management Office (PMO), ensuring that company-wide initiatives are effectively scoped, prioritised, and delivered against 2026 strategic goals.
• Ensure that strategic initiatives are data-driven, customer-focused, and aligned with long-term value creation.
• Translate strategic objectives into detailed execution plans, ensuring alignment and clear ownership across all departments and functions.
• Establish and monitor KPIs to track progress, measure ROI, and evaluate the success of integration and strategic projects.
• Provide regular updates and insights to the Executive Leadership Team and Board, highlighting performance, risks, and opportunities.

• Foster a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and collaboration across all workstreams. Promote a culture that values experimentation, agility, and the pursuit of operational excellence at every level.
• Translate strategic initiatives into actionable operational plans with clear accountability, defined milestones, and measurable outcomes.. Ensure that execution frameworks such as scorecards and quarterly business reviews, are consistently applied across all functions.
• Design and implement the supporting roles, and workflows required to bring newly defined or reimagined processes to life. Ensure clarity around ownership, decision rights, and handoffs to enable smooth, end-to-end execution.
• Identify inefficiencies and pain points across workflows, introducing automation, standardisation, and technology enablement to reduce friction, accelerate delivery, and strengthen data visibility.
• Foster cross-functional collaboration by creating structures and forums that bring together leaders from different functions to drive coordinated execution and decision-making.,
• Develop systems, governance frameworks, and capacity plans that allow the organisation to grow efficiently and sustainably while maintaining operational control and quality.

• Build and lead a high-performing team within the transformation function, developing capability and promoting cross-functional collaboration.
• Act as a trusted advisor to the executive team on matters of integration readiness, and transformation delivery.
• Champion change management best practice to ensure successful adoption of new systems, processes, and structures across acquired and existing teams.

• Extensive experience (10+ years) in transformation and/or integration management within a SaaS, technology, or EdTech environment.
• Proven track record of leading post-deal integration across multiple functions and geographies.
• Strong experience overseeing complex transformation or PMO functions, ideally within a scaling or multi-entity business.
• Exceptional stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate at executive and board level.
• Deep commercial acumen and financial literacy, with the ability to evaluate and communicate business cases and ROI.
• Demonstrated ability to drive operational efficiency and standardisation through process, systems, and cultural alignment.
• Strong leadership presence with a track record of building and motivating high-performing, cross-functional teams.

• Experience in a high-growth SaaS or subscription-based business model, ideally within the education or learning technology sector.
• Professional qualifications in finance, strategy, or project management (e.g. MBA, CFA, PMP, Prince2) desirable but not essential.
• Experience working within private equity environments.
  

Please submit your application on our website by Wednesday, December 24, 2025.