M&A Group Performance Director

About the job

Permanent, Full-time

This role exists to protect and enhance value during a period of accelerated acquisitions, ensuring integrations are right first time, vendor relationships remain aligned, and performance outcomes match what was underwritten.

The role draws on deep, repeat acquisition experience to reduce risk, improve judgement, and ensure the Group is fully prepared for lender scrutiny and a near-term equity event.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Accountable for ensuring post-acquisition integrations deliver expected value

• Focus on outcomes, not mechanics

• Identify integration risk early and intervene via the Executive Team

• Ensure integrations protect customers, people, EBITDA, and cashflow

Performance & Value Protection

• Track performance vs acquisition models

• Identify margin leakage or underperformance early

• Improve predictability and quality of earnings

• Reduce surprises to lenders and equity investors

Vendor & Founder Relationship Management

• Act as senior, credible point of contact post-completion

• Manage founder dynamics and earn-out tension

• Maintain alignment and reduce disruption

• Support smooth transitions where founders remain

Selective M&A Judgement Support

• Participate in selected vendor meetings pre-completion

• Draw on experience from 20+ prior acquisitions to identify repeat risk patterns

• Assess founder behaviour, cultural risk, and integration complexity

• Provide judgement and challenge, not deal execution

Scale & Stability During Rapid Growth

• Ensure stability as significant revenue and headcount are added

• Support leadership teams through integration change

• Prevent fragmentation across regions and cultures

Executive Challenge & Scar-Tissue Input

• Act as constructive counterweight to optimism

• Bring lived experience of integration failure and covenant pressure

• Improve overall Executive decision-making

Success Measures

• Clean, timely integrations

• EBITDA delivery aligned to models

• Stable vendor relationships

• Reduced integration surprises

• Strong lender and equity readiness narrative

Ideal Background

• Former CFO and/or Managing Director

• Experience across high-volume acquisitions

• Operated in PE-backed or lender-heavy environments

• Calm, decisive, commercially astute

• Strong vendor-facing credibility

Why join us?

Be a Changemaker:  Play a vital role in shaping Redsquid’s future through innovative UC solutions.

Collaborative Environment:  Work alongside a dynamic, forward-thinking team that values your ideas and expertise.

Professional Growth:  Access opportunities to expand your skillset and thrive in a role with real impact.

Exciting Challenges:  Lead UC initiatives through a transformative acquisition journey that positions Redsquid as an industry leader.

Benefits

We value our employees and are committed to providing them with a workplace which is both safe and secure.

Likewise we create an environment where every employee is treated fairly, with respect and importantly equal opportunities for all.

Read more about our employee commitment on our careers page, and find some of our benefits here: 

• 24 days annual leave entitlement (Increase on years’ service up to 30)

• Additional day off for your Birthday

• Buy/sell back holiday scheme

• Private Health Insurance with discounted perks; (such as gym membership, cinema tickets, flight and hotels)

• Bupa Dental Plan

• Eye care contribution