Job Description

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.

Role Purpose

This is a 6-month secondment or fixed-term contract opportunity to act as the single business owner for technology and data across Private Markets The role reports to the Head of Operational Strategy, Private Markets

The Technology & Data Platform Lead will be accountable for ensuring that platforms, data, and insight operate as one coherent capability, enabling investment teams to work efficiently, scale safely, and make better decisions. The role owns what is required, why it matters, and how it is prioritised—working with delivery, architecture, and vendors to achieve outcomes.

Core Accountability

End-to-End Ownership of Private Markets Technology & Data

• Own the business use, governance, and evolution of all technology and data platforms used across Private Markets.

• Act as the single point of accountability for how technology and data support investment, operational, and regulatory outcomes.

• Ensure platforms and data are prioritised, governed, and improved as one integrated enablement layer, aligned to business strategy and growth.

• Act as proxy Data Sponsor for Private Markets COO

• Within the first 90 days, deliver an initial assessment of the current technology and data landscape, identifying quick wins, critical gaps, and a prioritised roadmap to demonstrate early value.

Supporting Responsibilities

1. Prioritisation, Governance & Decision Support

• Translate investment team and operational needs into clear, prioritised technology-and-data requirements.

• Provide analysis to support trade-offs between value, cost, risk, and delivery pace.

• Represent Private Markets requirements in working groups, change forums, and delivery stages, ensuring decisions remain business-led. Chair the Private Markets Forum to be implemented Q3 2026.

• Identify opportunities to simplify, standardise, and remove duplication across platforms and data flows.

2. Platform & Vendor Management

• Act as business owner and super-user for core Private Markets platforms (e.g. Dealcloud, Verity, ILevel).

• Centralise ownership of vendor relationships, contracts, licensing, renewals, and associated costs. Undertake Third Party Supplier assessments as required.

• Influence vendor roadmaps to improve data quality, integration, and usability.

• Oversee the transition of platform management activities in-house where appropriate.

3. Embedded Data Governance & Capability

• Ensure data ownership, quality, and standards are clearly defined and pragmatically embedded within day-to-day platform use.

• Establish and support data owners and stewards across Private Markets.

• Represent Private Markets in firm-wide data governance forums as the business authority.

• Promote a data-driven culture by improving adoption, literacy, and effective use of insight.

4. Innovation, AI & Continuous Improvement

• Support and champion digital and AI-enabled change across Private Markets on behalf of the COO function.

• Enable investment teams to articulate opportunities for better insight, automation, and efficiency.

• Sponsor or deliver lightweight solutions (e.g. dashboards, tactical tooling) where speed and simplicity are required.

• Track benefits realisation, focusing on adoption and outcomes rather than delivery alone.

What We're Looking For

The ideal candidate will be a self-starter who thrives in ambiguity, comfortable shaping a role from scratch and building credibility quickly. They will bring:

• A bias for action and a track record of delivering tangible outcomes at pace.

• The ability to operate at both strategic and hands-on levels—comfortable in SLT discussions and equally willing to get into platform detail.

• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to challenge constructively and influence without authority.

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 ContributionsWe 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