Senior Project Manager

We’re strengthening how change is delivered across the organisation by building a coherent, well‑governed strategic tooling landscape and best practice framework.

We’re looking for a Senior Project Manager to support the SMEs in Change Excellence with the delivery of our colleague continuous improvement agenda. This role sits within our newly established Change Excellence Team, which exists to raise the bar on how change is planned, governed and delivered across M&G.

Your role will focus on taking a defined strategic direction and turning it into reality, managing scope, dependencies, risks and delivery across multiple work streams. You will ensure that tooling investments are implemented effectively, embedded well, and deliver tangible improvements for teams delivering change.

• Identify and compare the best processes or delivery methods to use, including measuring and evaluating outcomes. Helps the team to decide the best approach
• Leading the delivery of the end‑to‑end delivery of the colleague continuous improvement agenda.
• Translating high‑level strategy into clear plans, milestones, deliverables and governance
• Managing delivery across multiple work streams spanning business and technology teams
• Actively managing dependencies, risks, issues and trade‑offs across the programme
• Ensuring delivery remains on track, within agreed scope, cost and timelines
• Partnering with senior stakeholders to align priorities, elevate issues and support decision‑making
• Establishing and maintaining effective programme governance, reporting and controls
• Tracking benefits and outcomes to ensure tooling delivers measurable value
• Working closely with Change Excellence colleagues to embed consistent standards, ways of working and tooling capabilities via effective change management
• Identifying opportunities to simplify processes and improve how change is planned, governed and reported

• Senior delivery leadership through proven experience managing large, complex initiatives that span business and technology
• Structured delivery approach with a strong grounding in project and programme management disciplines, with experience across Agile, hybrid and waterfall environments
• Hands‑on involvement in delivering enterprise tooling initiatives (e.g. portfolio management, planning or transformation platforms)
• Confident engaging with senior stakeholders, managing expectations and navigating competing priorities
• Risk & dependency management through a strong capability in identifying issues early and driving resolution
• Outcome‑focused mindset and clear on how to define success, measure progress and ensure benefits are realised
• Clear communicator and able to provide concise, meaningful updates and translate complexity into practical actions
• Delivery pragmatism and comfortable with making decisions, managing constraints to keep work moving forward

We’d love to hear from you if you’re someone who’s genuinely curious – the kind of person who asks thoughtful questions and digs a little deeper to understand what’s really going on. You enjoy working with others and naturally bring people together, even when things feel a bit unclear. You think ahead, notice patterns early and stay focused on creating real value for the people around you.

Most of all, you care about making things better – for colleagues, for customers, and for the workplace as a whole.

Location:

Various – London, Sterling, Kildean, Home Based – England & Scotland

Job Level: Manager / Expert

Reports to:

Michelle Brookes

Recruiter:
Shanika-Marie John

• 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.
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