Post-Acquisition Integration & Change HR Partner

Our client has an opportunity for a Post-Acquisition Integration & Change HR Partner to join them on a contract basis for 12 months.
This role will play a pivotal part in understanding, mapping and aligning existing processes, ways of working and organisational practices across both the acquiring company and the acquired business.
This is a specialist integration role requiring a structured, analytical and delivery-focused individual who can navigate complexity, influence stakeholders and translate integration objectives into practical actions and measurable outcomes.
Role: Post-Acquisition Integration & Change HR Partner
Location: Newport - fully onsite
Hourly Rate: 37.46 per hour via an Umbrella company, inside IR35
Clearance: Eligible to obtain SC
Hours: 37 hours per week, Monday - Friday
What you'll be doing:
Post-Acquisition Integration

• Coordinate integration activities following the acquisition, ensuring alignment with agreed business objectives, milestones and timelines.
• Work with stakeholders across both organisations to understand existing operating models, processes, policies, systems and ways of working.
• Map and document current-state processes across the acquiring and acquired businesses, highlighting differences, duplication, gaps, dependencies and areas of risk.
• Conduct comparative analysis to identify opportunities for process standardisation, harmonisation, simplification and operational improvement.

Change Management

• Develop and deliver structured change management plans to support the successful implementation of integration activities.
• Assess the impact of proposed changes on employees, teams, processes and the wider organisation.
• Identify potential resistance to change and develop appropriate engagement and mitigation strategies.
• Work with leaders, managers and key stakeholders to build understanding, commitment and adoption of new processes and ways of working.

Stakeholder Management and Collaboration

• Build effective working relationships with stakeholders at all levels across both organisations.
• Facilitate workshops and structured discussions to map processes, challenge existing practices and agree future-state approaches

Governance, Risk and Reporting

• Establish and maintain clear integration plans, milestones, dependencies and reporting mechanisms.
• Identify and escalate integration risks, issues and barriers to delivery.
• Maintain accurate process documentation, decision records and implementation plans.

Requirements:
Essential:

• Demonstrable experience delivering post-acquisition integration, post-merger integration (PMI) or business integration programmes.
• Strong practical experience of process mapping, process analysis and current-state versus future-state design.
• Proven ability to compare processes across two organisations and identify opportunities for harmonisation, improvement and standardisation.
• Substantial experience in change management, including change impact assessments, stakeholder engagement, communications and implementation planning.
• Experience developing and delivering structured integration and change plans within complex organisational environments.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the confidence to challenge existing practices constructively.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving and organisational skills, with the ability to translate complex information into clear recommendations and actions.
• Experience managing multiple workstreams, competing priorities, risks and dependencies.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to facilitate workshops and present recommendations to senior stakeholders.
• A proactive, pragmatic and delivery-focused approach, with the ability to work independently and collaboratively.

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