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.

The role:

Key Responsibilities

Portfolio Governance & Control Framework

Support the Portfolio Director in maintaining the governance structure for the Portfolio, ensuring alignment with M&G’s Change Management Framework and Standards.
Support the Portfolio Director and Programme Managers in preparing and maintaining governance packs and meeting outputs for SteerCos and assurance forums.
Ensure timely and accurate submissions to governance bodies.
Work closely with the Enterprise Change Excellence team to ensure best practice frameworks are consistently applied across the Portfolio.
Supports audit readiness across PMO-managed domains and collaborates with Risk, Audit, and Change Excellence teams to maintain compliance.

Delivery Oversight & Outcome Tracking

Monitor delivery progress across programmes and projects, ensuring milestones, dependencies, and benefits are clearly defined and tracked.
Provide challenge and support to Programme Managers and Project Managers on delivery plans, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and business outcomes.

Financial Management & Insight

Ensure robust financial governance across the Portfolio, including monthly cost tracking and forecast vs actuals.
Support Statements of Work and third-party cost processes, ensuring compliance and transparency.
Collaborate with Finance to ensure financial reporting supports decision-making.

Resource Management

Monitor and support resource planning across the Portfolio, including demand tracking, capacity analysis, and resource constraints.
Ensure ServiceNow resource plans are maintained and accurate

RAID Management

Ensure risks, issues, actions, and dependencies are logged, maintained, and escalated appropriately using ServiceNow and RAID dashboards.
Support the Portfolio Director, Programme Managers and Project Managers in identifying and managing delivery risks and blockers.

Reporting & Insight

Produce and maintain Portfolio-level reporting packs, dashboards, and insights for governance forums and senior stakeholders.
Ensure reporting templates meet Transformation Office standards and support storytelling around delivery performance.
Work with Portfolio Directors and the Data, Reporting & Insights team to embed OKR’s into reporting, dashboards, and performance reviews.
Track and report on OKRs, delivery metrics, and benefit realisation across the Portfolio.

Skills & Experience

Proven experience in PMO within a change or transformation environment, ideally in financial services.
Strong understanding of governance frameworks, portfolio management, and delivery controls.
Proficiency in JIRA, ServiceNow and MS Office suite.
Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
Ability to work across agile, waterfall, and hybrid delivery models.

Behaviours & Values

Role models M&G behaviours: Tell it like it is, Own it now, Move it forward together.
Proactive, collaborative, and committed to continuous improvement.
Demonstrates integrity, accountability, and a customer-focused mindset.

Recruiter: Sarah Hawkins

Job Level: Manager or Expert

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

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