M&G plc
Head of Enterprise Data Governance, Risk and Management
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Our purpose
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 workplace accommodations to ensure you have what you need to effectively deliver in your role.
Purpose
Accountable for end-to-end enterprise ownership of data governance, data risk, and data management across M&G Group, including policy, standards, governance oversight, and delivery of measurable outcomes. The role ensures the Group achieves a consistent, evidenced control environment and that effective cross-business decisions are made to maintain data risk within appetite.
Key responsibilities and stakeholders
- Own M&G’s enterprise data governance framework end-to-end, including Data Policy, Standards, and governance processes, ensuring they are clear, pragmatic, and consistently interpretable across AM, Life, and Corporate Functions.
- Monitor and provide enterprise-level transparency of data governance outcomes, including data risk position, control effectiveness, and evidence across the Group, with clear reporting into ERC, BRC, and ExCo.
- Work with business and corporate functions to support remediation where data risk is outside appetite, ensuring issues are clearly understood, prioritized, and addressed.
- Lead enterprise governance and oversight mechanisms, including governance forums, performance tracking, and escalation, ensuring clear visibility of progress, risks, and issues across all business areas and Corporate Functions (e.g., Finance, Technology, Operations).
- Act as the enterprise integrator across divisions, working with AM, Life, and Corporate Functions to align priorities, support implementation, and ensure Group standards are embedded in a way that supports delivery.
- Ensure cross-business trade-offs are identified, agreed, and executed, facilitating alignment where priorities, capacity, or approaches conflict, and escalating where resolution is required to maintain enterprise outcomes.
- Drive continuous improvement of the data control environment, identifying where behaviors, processes, or tooling need to change, and ensuring interventions are sequenced pragmatically to maximize impact.
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Critical skills and experience
- Deep experience leading enterprise data governance, data risk, or control environments in a regulated financial services context.
- Proven track record of improving enterprise outcomes through influencing delivery across federated teams, rather than direct line control.
- Strong commercial judgement, with the ability to balance risk, cost, and value, and to shape practical, scalable solutions in complex environments.
- Highly effective collaborator and influencer, able to build alignment across business and functional leadership and operate as a trusted enterprise partner.
- Strong judgement and credibility to facilitate and, where needed, escalate decisions to ensure progress when delivery is off track.
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:
- A valuable pension scheme of 18%, with 13% made up of Employer Contributions and 5% Employee Contributions.
- Share Save and our Share Incentive Plan, together with access to financial wellbeing and support services.
- 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.
- Comprehensive support and paid parental leave covering maternity, adoption, surrogacy, and paternity leave through our Inspiring Families policy.
- Health & Protection cover including Private Healthcare, Critical Illness cover, and Life Assurance for you, with family options.
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Our culture
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.
About M&G
M&G is a leading international savings and investments business, managing money for around 4.6 million individual clients and more than 900 institutional clients in 38 offices worldwide. As at 31 December 2024, we had £345.9 billion of assets under management and administration.
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