Change Operations Manager (6 mth FTC)

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.

This role will establish and lead a central control for Advice change, bringing clarity, discipline and pace to a complex portfolio spanning transformation, digital, regulatory and BAU initiatives.

Reporting into the Strategy & Transformation Director, the role will ensure that prioritisation, reporting and governance operate as a coherent system, enabling the organisation to focus on fewer, higher-impact initiatives and deliver them effectively.

M&G Advice is delivering a significant programme of change (e.g. Dynamic Planner, Ignition, Advice Waterfront), alongside ongoing regulatory and BAU demand.

Current challenges include:

• Competing priorities and constrained capacity across teams
• Fragmented reporting and limited portfolio visibility
• Governance complexity slowing decision-making

This role is a critical enabler to:

• Improve delivery pace and decision quality
• Align activity to strategic outcomes
• Reduce inefficiency and cost leakage across change delivery

• Own a single, consolidated view of all change activity across Advice
• Deliver monthly EXCO/SteerCo reporting (status, risks, benefits, milestones)
• Establish consistent MI standards and dashboards to support decision-making

• Design and operate a clear prioritisation framework aligned to strategy
• Implement a single intake (“front door”) for all change demand
• Lead regular reprioritisation cycles based on capacity, value and risk
• Provide visibility of forward change runway and resource allocation

• Define and embed a streamlined governance model
• Standardise committee packs, decision-making, and escalation routes
• Maintain a central decision and action log
• Reduce duplication while maintaining strong control and auditability

• Own and enforce consistent change standards and lifecycle discipline
• Ensure robust scope, cost, risk and benefits tracking
• Maintain audit-ready governance and documentation
• Align delivery practices to Group PMO and Change Handbook standards

• Act as the integration point across Strategy, Change, Proposition and Operations
• Manage dependencies, capacity constraints and delivery risks across programmes
• Establish a clear operating rhythm for planning, reporting and escalation

This role will deliver measurable benefits, including:

• Improved delivery focus through structured prioritisation
• Faster decision-making via simplified governance
• Reduced duplication across reporting and PMO activity
• More efficient use of Group project management resource, lowering medium-term cost through:
  • Reduced rework and failed initiatives
  • Better defined scope and entry into delivery
  • Avoidance of incremental resource demand

• Strong experience in portfolio / programme management or PMO leadership
• Proven ability to design and implement governance and operating models
• Highly analytical with ability to translate complex portfolios into clear insight
• Credible with senior stakeholders; comfortable operating at EXCO level
• Strong commercial awareness; able to balance governance with pace of delivery
• Collaborative and influential; able to work across multiple functions and agendas

We are seeking an individual who is:

• Structured and disciplined, with a strong control mindset
• Pragmatic and delivery-focused, not overly theoretical
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and complexity
• Able to challenge constructively and drive organisational focus
• Motivated by improving outcomes for both advisers and clients

Location: UK Home-Based

Work Level: Manager / Expert

Recruiter: Amy Curtis

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. 

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