Our purpose is to give everyone real confidence to put their money to work. With a heritage dating back more than 175 years, we have a long history of innovation in savings and investments, combining asset management and insurance expertise to offer a wide range of solutions.

Our two distinct operating segments, Asset Management and Life, work together to provide access to balanced, long-term investment and savings solutions.

Through telling it like it is, owning it now, and moving it forward together with care and integrity; we are creating an exceptional place to work for exceptional talent.

We will consider flexible working arrangements for any of our roles and also offer work place accommodations to ensure you have what you need to effectively deliver in your role.

This role sits within the Financial Crime function and supports the Programme Manager in delivering a regulatory change project.

Main Responsibilities

• Deliver clearly defined PMO outputs, applying discretion on how best to achieve them within established programme governance frameworks.
• Provide specialist PMO expertise to ensure efficient and effective delivery across the regulatory workstream, using prior experience of similar situations to guide decisions.
• Support the Programme Manager with planning, RAID documentation, budget management, governance and coordination across project stakeholders.
• Monitor adherence to governance processes, escalating issues where required and applying judgement to resolve a range of non‑routine delivery challenges.
• Suggest improvements to processes and team ways of working based on experience and precedent.
• Build strong working relationships across programme, and stakeholder teams, maintaining an effective network across the programme.

Key Knowledge, Skills, and Experience

• Minimum 3 years experience in Financial Services focused project management roles (Essential)
• Significant practical experience applying PMO or project delivery skills within defined governance frameworks.(Essential)
• Ability to interpret governance frameworks and guidelines to deliver outputs effectively and solve familiar problems. (Essential)
• Experience identifying opportunities to improve quality and efficiency of delivery.
• Strong communication and senior stakeholder engagement skills, supported by experience collaborating with peers across business areas. (Essential)
• Experience escalating unfamiliar problems appropriately.
• Educated to degree level or holding relevant professional development aligned to project or PMO work (eg: Prince, Agile, etc).

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Key Skills

• Delivery coordination and planning
• Governance, reporting and RAID management
• Continuous improvement mindset
• Risk and issue identification and escalation

Experience Level: Manager / Expert

Recruiter: Helen Simons

What we offer:

At M&G, we’re committed to helping you thrive and supporting your wellbeing, both at work and beyond. Our benefits are designed to help you balance your professional and personal life, while planning confidently for your future. Our UK benefits include:

• As a savings and Investments firm we are proud to offer a valuable pension scheme of 18%, with 13% made up of Employer Contributions and 5% Employee Contributions. We also offer Share Save and our Share Incentive Plan, together with access to financial wellbeing and support services - to help give you real confidence to put your money to work.

• Enjoy 38 days annual leave including bank holidays, with the opportunity to purchase up to 5 extra days and additional flexibility through our Time Off When You Need It policy – to balance your work and personal commitments.

• Our market leading Inspiring Families policy includes comprehensive support and paid parental leave covering maternity, adoption, surrogacy, and paternity leave - as supporting families is a core aspect of our inclusive culture.

• Health & Protection cover including Private Healthcare, Critical Illness cover and Life Assurance for you, with family options - for peace of mind.

To explore more about life at M&G and our full benefits offering, visit Life at M&G

We have a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture at M&G, underpinned by our policies and our employee-led networks who provide networking opportunities, advice and support for the diverse communities our colleagues represent. Regardless of gender, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, nationality, disability or long term condition, we are looking to attract, promote and retain exceptional people. We also welcome those who take part in military service and those returning from career breaks.

M&G is also proud to be a Disability Confident Leader, and we welcome applications from candidates with long-term health conditions, disabilities, or neuro-divergent conditions.

If you need assistance or an alternative means of applying for a role due to a disability or additional need, please let us know by contacting us at: careers@mandg.com