Senior Project Manager M&A

WELCOME TO SITA

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ABOUT THE ROLE

We are looking for an experienced Senior Project Manager to support SITA for Aircraft's inorganic growth agenda, working closely with the central Merger and Acquisition (M&A) team, which leads due diligence and deal execution. This role brings structure, pace, and clarity to our M&A workstreams. You will act as the operational backbone of our M&A projects: coordinating business-unit contributors, tracking actions and risks, preparing leadership materials, and ensuring the central M&A team gets what they need from the business, on time and in the right format. The role requires strong project management, sound business judgment, excellent stakeholder management, and the ability to turn complex commercial, product, and operational inputs into clear updates for senior leadership.


WHAT YOU WILL DO

Support the M&A pipeline:

• Help maintain and enrich the pipeline of acquisition and partnership opportunities aligned with the SITA for Aircraft (SFA) strategy.
• Contribute to market scans and initial screening of potential targets.
• Keep a structured view of priorities, status, and next steps for SFA leadership.

Run M&A project management of Business Unit-side workstreams:

• Build and maintain workplans, timelines, actions, risks, and dependencies.
• Coordinate SFA contributors across Product, Finance, Commercial, Technology, and Operations.
• Ensure clear ownership, follow-up, and decision tracking throughout the deal lifecycle.

Support the central M&A team on due diligence:

• Act as SFA point of coordination for due diligence requests from the central M&A team and external advisors.
• Organize product, commercial, technical, and operational input; prepare agendas, information packs, and target-facing sessions. 
• Track relevant findings, open points, and action items.

Contribute to business case and synergy work:

• Work with Finance and Product leaders to gather input on revenue opportunities, cost implications, investment needs, and synergies. 
• Help pressure-test assumptions to keep the business case fact-based

Prepare executive communication:

• Create clear, concise materials for SFA leadership, M&A reviews, and board-level discussions. 

Support integration planning:

• Help frame early integration hypotheses during due diligence.
• Coordinate the handover from due diligence to integration planning, ensuring continuity for customers, employees, products, and operations.

ABOUT YOUR SKILLS

• 7+ years of experience in project management, corporate development, M&A support, strategy, consulting, or complex cross-functional programs.
• Aviation industry knowledge, preferably in airline operations, SaaS, B2B software
• Strong project management skills in senior-stakeholder, multi-workstream environments, with a track record of running complex programs end-to-end; project management certification (PMP, Prince2, or equivalent) is valued.
• Excellent understanding of the M&A lifecycle: pipeline, screening, due diligence, transaction, and integration - enough to be a strong partner to the central M&A team, without owning due diligence. Prior exposure to due diligence support, PMO, or post-merger integration coordination is a plus.
• Ability to structure ambiguous problems into clear workplans, actions, and decisions.
• Comfort working with financial and business case inputs; able to challenge assumptions constructively, with an MBA or equivalent business background welcome.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; able to produce concise, board-ready materials and operate effectively with investment banks, consultants, and legal advisors.
• Strong collaboration and ability to influence without direct authority.
• Ability to operate with confidence and credibility with C-suite leaders and influence decisions across a broad range of cross-functional stakeholders (e.g. Product, PMO, Legal, Finance).
• High discretion and sound judgment when handling confidential information.
• Fluent English required.

WHAT WE OFFER

We're all about diversity. We operate in 200 countries and speak 60 different languages and cultures. We're really proud of our inclusive environment. Our offices are comfortable and fun places to work, and we make sure you get to work from home too. Find out what it's like to join our team and take a step closer to your best life ever.

🏡 Flex Week: Work from home up to 2 days/week (depending on your team's needs)

⏰ Flex Day: Make your workday suit your life and plans.

🌎 Flex-Location: Take up to 30 days a year to work from any location in the world.

🌿 Employee Wellbeing: We have got you covered with our Employee Assistance Program (EAP), for you and your dependents 24/7, 365 days/year. We also offer Champion Health - a personalized platform that supports a range of wellbeing needs.

🚀 Professional Development: At SITA, we believe growth fuels innovation. Our learning ecosystem offers access to world-class platforms and programs designed to help you thrive. From LinkedIn Learning, Microsoft's Enterprise Skills Initiative, and Airport Council International -available to all employees-to specialized solutions like Pluralsight for technology upskilling, Harvard Business Publishing for people leadership, Stanford for strategic development and many others, we align learning opportunities with your Development Plan and our business priorities. Your development journey is supported every step of the way.

🙌 Competitive Benefits: Competitive benefits that make sense with both your local market and employment status.

SITA is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value a diverse workforce. In support of our Employment Equity Program, we encourage women, aboriginal people, members of visible minorities, and/or persons with disabilities to apply and self-identify in the application process.