Senior Project Manager

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.

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…