At M&G, 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 offer workplace adjustments to ensure you have the support you need to succeed in your role.
The Role: Integrated Delivery Director - 6 Month Fixed Term Contract
Location: London
Purpose:
Accountable to the Chief Transformation Officer for setting the overall strategy, investment priorities & conversion of major operating-model choices into integrated, executable transition portfolios of change.
Leading a team of Portfolio Delivery Directors, the role oversees mobilisation, commercial and organisational readiness, and cross-enterprise implementation across operations, technology, people, legal, risk and regulatory domains, while retaining accountability for collective outcomes, strategic coherence and executive confidence.
The role owns the transition strategy and the conditions for safe execution across multiple portfolios, ensuring that complex changes are sequenced, governed and implemented with minimum disruption and clear value.
It also sets and embeds the standards for portfolio management, change excellence, governance, assurance, benefits realisation and delivery capability across the team, ensuring commercial ambition is pursued within risk appetite and remains aligned to technology, digital & growth change roadmaps.
Key accountabilities
- Own the enterprise transition strategy and integrated roadmap for major operating-model changes, from mobilisation and design assurance through implementation readiness and stabilisation.
- Translate strategic intent into coherent portfolio’s, outcomes, decision points, investment requirements and critical dependencies.
- Lead business architecture, operations, commercial, procurement, legal, people, technology, risk and compliance disciplines to produce an implementable end-state and transition path.
- Own strategic sourcing, insourcing, outsourcing and integration mobilisation, including commercial structure, contractual readiness, TUPE implications, partner accountability and exit resilience.
- Set enterprise readiness criteria and independently challenge scope, funding, capacity, control maturity and implementation confidence before major releases or cutovers.
- Chair executive transition governance; frame choices, trade-offs and recommendations for the CTO, ExCo and Board, and secure timely decisions across organisational boundaries.
- Integrate operational capability with the target architecture, data and platform roadmaps owned by the Digital & Future State Delivery Director.
- Manage cross-portfolio dependencies and transition risk, escalating conflicts and recommending resequencing, remediation, investment or stop decisions where required.
- Build a repeatable operating-model implementation capability, with reusable standards for due diligence, mobilisation, readiness, cutover, stabilisation and benefits handover.
- Sponsor delivery outcomes through delegated Portfolio Directors, holding them to account for execution while retaining accountability for strategic coherence and enterprise readiness.
Experience and capability sought
- Senior transformation leader with a record of mobilising and implementing complex operating-model and technology-enabled change in regulated financial services.
- Direct experience of acquisition integration, insourcing, outsourcing or strategic partnerships at material scale, ideally across investment, wealth, life, pensions or banking.
- Strong enterprise and business architecture judgement, able to connect organisation design, process, capability, location, technology, data and controls.
- Commercial and legal fluency, including deal structures, contractual obligations, supplier economics, TUPE and regulatory change-of-control considerations.
- Demonstrated stewardship of multi-programme investment, directing funding and capacity to the highest-value and most executable outcomes.
- Board and ExCo-level influence combined with the practical credibility to interrogate plans, dependencies, readiness evidence and delivery detail.
- Deep understanding of transformation risk, operational resilience, regulatory expectations and controlled implementation in a UK-regulated bank.
- Proven leadership of large multidisciplinary teams and strategic partners through ambiguity, conflict and high-pressure transition events.
- Candid, enterprise-minded decision maker who creates accountability, challenges constructively and is prepared to slow or stop unsafe activity.
- Curious and pragmatic systems thinker who creates clarity without becoming a bottleneck and leaves a stronger repeatable capability behind.
What we offer:
We’re dedicated to supporting your wellbeing and helping you thrive, both at work and beyond. Our benefits are designed to help you balance your professional and personal life, and financially plan for the future. Our UK benefits include:
- A valuable pension scheme of up to 18% (13% made up of employer contributions and 5% employee contributions).
- Access to our Share Save and Share Incentive Plan, alongside 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 five extra days. Our Time Off When You Need It policy gives you the flexibility - to balance work and personal commitments.
- Our market-leading Inspiring Families policy includes comprehensive support and paid parental leave covering maternity, adoption, surrogacy, and paternity leave - because supporting families is an important part of our inclusive culture.
- Health & Protection cover includes Private Healthcare, Critical Illness cover and Life Assurance for you, with additional family options - for peace of mind.
To explore more about life at M&G and our full benefits offering, visit Life at M&G
At M&G we strive to have a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture, underpinned by our policies and employee-led networks that offer networking, support and development opportunities for the diverse communities our colleagues represent. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds – across gender, ethnicity, age, disability, sexual orientation and more – including neurodivergent individuals, career returners and those with military service experience.
M&G is proud to be Level 3: Disability Confident Leader under the UK Government Disability Confident employer scheme, and we welcome applications from candidates with disabilities and long-term health conditions. If you would like to participate in the initiative, you will have the opportunity to indicate this on your application.
We are committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process. All candidates have the opportunity to request reasonable adjustments when applying. If you need any additional support at any stage, please contact us at: careers@mandg.com
