Senior Project Manager - 12mth Fixed Term Contract

About the role

M&G Life supports over 5 million customers with more than £300bn invested across its products and wrappers, and has an ambitious growth and transformation agenda for 2026 and beyond. Our International business unit encompasses the oversight and delivery of operations and change across M&G's international markets, including governance of strategic initiatives, partner‑led service delivery, and local business change. It operates across multiple geographies including the UK and regulatory environments, requiring strong coordination between global services, external suppliers, and local leadership teams. We are seeking a high‑performing & experienced Senior Project Manager to provide hands‑on leadership and drive the successful delivery of a regulatory programme within the International portfolio. Reporting to the Portfolio Director, you will translate regulatory rules into tangible outcomes, ensuring that delivery is matched by demonstrable business readiness and adoption. This role can be based from the UK or Ireland. This role is pivotal in ensuring that change is not only delivered, but ready, embedded, and compliance is achieved across the business.

Responsibilities

• Own the end to end delivery of medium to highly complex projects regulatory projects, identifying key business stakeholders; leading on defining business case, project objectives, scope, resources and agreed set of expected benefits and outcomes.
• In conjunction with the Project Sponsor, communicate the outcomes/benefits of the project across the organisation to garner support and buy-in.
• Establishing and maintaining key stakeholder and sponsor relationships which serve to underpin the dynamic, energy and success of the programme.
• Create and maintain high quality project plans (with built in risk mitigation strategies) and work packages that support delivery, ensuring that responsibilities are assigned to project resources.
• Evaluate delivery options and the team's performance, providing feedback where necessary and adjusting plans at regular intervals against the scope, schedule, budget, risks, outcomes and benefits.
• Provide regular forecasts of the future Change and BAU resources required for the project
• Provide the project team with direction and confidence to deliver and ensure that the project delivers the required benefits and outcomes within the specified tolerances of time, cost, quality, scope, benefit and risk.
• Undertake regular lessons learnt sessions during the life of the project, implementing agreed recommendations to ensure the project team learns from experience and proactively shares lessons with the broader Project Management community.
• Adhere to governance standards, including Project Change Standard and guidelines, maintaining accurate RACI and RAID logs and Service Now records.
• Forecast future external costs, understand the drivers of project cost variance and take actions to control costs to budgets or raise change control
• Monitor and report progress to the impacted stakeholders (e.g. sponsor(s), Programme manager, Change Programme Directors, steering committee) including ongoing business case viability.
• Independently identify and take ownership of issues, risks and dependencies, making recommendations to mitigate the risk or to reduce/remove issues. Escalate where appropriate to maintain progress towards project delivery and act as an escalation point on behalf of the Project Sponsor.
• Complete handover to BAU, and business benefits realisation activities to close off projects.
• Manage resource planning and motivate the project team to ensure a high standard of output, focused on customer satisfaction and delivery through developing others through providing ongoing guid

Benefits

Additional Information

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. Senior Project Manager - Change Delivery - 12 month Fixed Term Contract M&G Life | Operations & Transformation

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