Integration Management Office (IMO) Project Manager Job

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Primary location: Lancaster, Pennsylvania 
Relocation offered: No 
Employment status: Full-Time 
Travel: 11%-25% 
Non-compete: No 
Location: Lancaster, Pennsylvania 

The estimated base salary range for this role is $125,000 to $165,000 per year.  
Individual pay is based upon location, skills and expertise, experience and other relevant factors (salary may be adjusted based on geographic location)

​What does it mean to work at Armstrong?

It means being immersed in a supportive culture that recognizes you as a key player in Armstrong's future. We are a large company with a local feel, where you will get to know and collaborate with leadership and your colleagues across the company.

By joining us, you'll have the opportunity to make the most of your potential. Alongside a competitive remuneration package, you will receive:

• A benefits package including: medical, dental, prescription drug, life insurance, 401k match, long-term disability coverage, vacation and sick time, product discount programs and many more.
• Personal development to grow your career with us based on your strengths and interests.
• A working culture that balances individual achievement with teamwork and collaboration. We draw on each other's strengths and allow for different work styles to build engagement and satisfaction to deliver results. 
   

Reporting to the VP, IMO; the Project Manager, IMO will be part of the team that helps drive the Company’s growth and integration strategy across the enterprise. In this role, you will lead critical initiatives that drive value creation — from the earliest stages of M&A diligence through successful integration of acquired companies, as well as IMO-sponsored projects that simplify how we operate and unlock scalable growth.

This role is ideal for a strong project leader who takes a high level of ownership and accountability, enjoys orchestrating cross-functional efforts, and is motivated by visible business outcomes (not just process or compliance). You will regularly interact with senior leadership, new company leadership teams, and internal stakeholders across multiple businesses.

 What’s in it for you!

• Lead high‑impact projects tied directly to company growth

• Gain visibility with senior leadership and executives
• Build expertise in M&A and integration strategy
• Collaborative, fast‑paced environment with real business outcomes

What You’ll Do

Project Management

• Lead and drive complex, cross-functional projects that align directly to AWI’s growth strategy. These projects will span the lifecycle of the diligence and integration process.
• Develop, use and implement ‘best practice’ project management practices. Facilitate work and collaboration across business units, functional teams, and new acquisitions to deliver financial and strategic outcomes.
• Excellent communication and change management skills are necessary in all aspects of project management. Anticipating risks, challenges to change and proactively preparing teams / individuals for
• Anticipate risks, remove roadblocks, and proactively recommend solutions to initiative sponsors.
• Provide clear, concise project updates, insights and decision-ready reporting
• Continuously improve our integration approach and internal processes
• Partner with P&L leaders across the company to achieve business cases for recently acquired companies
• Develop toward PMO leadership responsibilities

Drive Diligence + Early Integration Success

• Partner closely with the Business Development team during M&A diligence
• Lead key early-integration workstreams and help shape the integration experience from day one
• Balance multiple priorities and adapt quickly as information evolves
• Serve as one of AWI’s first faces to new employees — building trust, creating alignment, and modeling our values and operating principles

Process Improvement and M&A Integration Playbook

• Develop and operationalize standard tools, templates, and processes for diligence and integration
• Contribute to the development of AWI’s M&A integration playbook and ways of working

What will make you successful

• Experience working across functions and levels — ideally within a commercial, manufacturing, or building products environment
• Exceptional interpersonal and change leadership skills in a matrixed environment
• Strong communication skills and the ability to adapt communications to audience.
• Strategic thinker with strong business acumen — able to connect dots, simplify complexity, and structure insight
• Measured, resourceful, and solutions-oriented under pressure — thrives in fast-paced diligence/integration environments
• Open to new ideas, ways of thinking and working
• Excellent listener with an instinct for uncovering opportunity
• Hands-on, collaborative team player with a bias for action

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant experience. 
• High school diploma required.
• 7+ years M&A or experience managing large scale projects or integrations is preferred

Why should you join Armstrong World Industries?

Armstrong World Industries (AWI) is an Americas leader in the design and manufacture of innovative interior and exterior architectural applications including ceilings, specialty walls and exterior metal solutions. With approximately $1.4 billion in revenue, AWI has about 3,700 employees and a manufacturing network of 21 facilities in North America.

At home, at work, in healthcare facilities, classrooms, stores, or restaurants, we offer interior solutions that help to enhance comfort, save time, improve building efficiency and overall performance, and create beautiful spaces.

For more than 160 years, we have built our business on trust and integrity. It set us apart then, and it sets us apart now, along with our ability to collaborate with and innovate for the people we're here to serve - our customers, our shareholders, our communities and our employees.

We are committed to developing new and sustainable architectural solutions, with design and performance possibilities that make a positive difference in spaces where we live, work, learn, heal and play. It's an exciting, rewarding business to be in, and we're committed to continue to grow and prosper for the benefit of all of our stakeholders. We hope you join us.

Our Sustainability Ambition

"Bringing our Purpose to Life" - lead a transformation in the design and building of spaces fit for today and tomorrow.
We are committed to:

• Engaging a diverse, purpose-driven workforce;
• Transforming buildings from structures that shelter into structures that serve and preserve the health and well-being of people and planet;
• Pursuing sustainable, innovative solutions for spaces where we live, work, learn heal and play;
• Being a catalyst for change with all of our stakeholders; and
• Making a positive difference in the environments and communities we impact.

About the location (Lancaster PA)

Lancaster, PA. A great central location in South Central Pennsylvania, Lancaster is ideally situated for easy access to major metropolitan cities such as Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington DC, and New York City. Lancaster offers a vibrant arts and entertainment community with wonderful historic sites, B&Bs, museums, great shopping, entertainment venues and restaurants.

Armstrong is committed to engaging a diverse, purpose-driven workforce.  As part of our dedication to diversity, AWI is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and all qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard for race, sex, color, national origin, ethnicity, gender, protected veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or religion. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at by email at AWI talent acquisition and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Requests for accommodation will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. Please note that only inquiries concerning a request for reasonable accommodation will be responded to from this email address.

Come and build your future with us and apply today!

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