Programme Manager – Data Retention Transformation (FTC Role)

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.

Programme Manager Data Retention Transformation (FTC Role)

M&G Life serves over 5 million customers and manages more than 300bn in assets. As part of our modernisation and controlstrengthening agenda we are delivering two of our most critical change initiatives: the Data Retention Programme and the Data Products Programme. Together these programmes will reduce operational risk improve data hygiene enable future digital capability and ensure we meet evolving regulatory expectations.

Were looking for a Programme Manager to lead this large complex multiyear transformation. Youll oversee delivery across Group Life Technology Data Risk and Legal creating a unified and sustainable approach to data retention and scalable data products. Youll set the standard for programme discipline governance and pace giving the organisation confidence that data is managed controlled and retired safely and transparently.

This role is ideal for a senior delivery leader who can operate as a trusted partner to executives bring clarity to complex technical and regulatory requirements manage thirdparty providers and lead multidisciplinary teams. You will play a pivotal role in strengthening our operational resilience and building the data foundations that underpin customer trust and future digital strategy.

Key Responsibilities

Programme Delivery & Governance

• Lead the endtoend delivery of a large multiyear Data Retention and Data Products programmes ensuring predictable execution strong governance and alignment to enterprise priorities.
• Translate regulatory legal and risk requirements into executable plans across data technology platform and business change.

Executive Stakeholders & Decisioning

• Engage and influence senior leaders across Life Technology Data Risk Legal Finance and Operations; provide concise dataled updates to SteerCo/Board forums.
• Drive timely enterprise tradeoffs; remove ambiguity and cut through blockers.

ThirdParty Partner & Vendor Delivery (Technology/Data)

• Lead highvalue partner ecosystems (SI tooling vendors managed services) across data classification archival/deletion lineage and storage platforms.
• Set clear deliverables SLAs and acceptance criteria; coordinate integration nonfunctional requirements security and compliance; hold suppliers to account on scope quality cost and timelines.
• Ensure commercial discipline (contracts SoWs change control) and seamless collaboration with internal engineering architecture and data governance teams.

Technical & Business Change

• Orchestrate change across legacy estates cloud platforms warehouses document stores and business processes; manage impacts to Operations Distribution CMO Finance and Claims.
• Land scalable retention solutions (classification lifecycle tooling metadata uplift automated deletion) with measurable control improvements.

Risk Controls & Assurance

• Operate within Change Risk Appetite: surface risks early agree mitigations avoid endcycle surprises; provide clean evidence for Risk Audit and Assurance partners.
• Maintain sharp valueadding governance and executiveready reporting.

Ways of Working & Leadership

• Apply the right delivery approach (Agile/Waterfall/hybrid) for regulatory and data complexity; drive continuous improvement and efficient sequencing.
• Lead and develop Project Managers BAs Data SMEs and PMO; set a culture of clarity ownership candour and high performance.
• Champion modern tooling (e.g. Jira/Confluence delivery MI) to enable transparent datadriven decisions.

Key Skills & Experience

• Programme leadership of large complex multiyear transformations in financial services or similarly regulated environments.
• Datacentric change expertise: data retention/lifecycle GDPR/regulatory programmes control uplift legacy data remediation.
• Highaccountability vendor management in the technology/data domain (SIs platform/tooling vendors managed services): contracting SoWs SLAs acceptance integration performance management.
• Strong risk audit legal and data governance literacy; proven ability to turn policy into delivery outcomes.
• Stakeholder influence at Exec/SteerCo level; crisp storytelling and decisionenabling insights.
• Mastery of governance discipline and executive reporting; adept at complex dependency management across portfolios and legacy estates.
• Practical fluency in Agile/Waterfall/hybrid; coach others in best practice.
• Proficiency with delivery tooling (Jira highly desirable).

Key Behaviours

• Relentless Delivery Focus proactive structured and committed to predictable outcomes.
• Constructive Candour challenges positively surfaces risks early and provides clarity under pressure.
• Resilience & Adaptability manages complexity confidently and maintains calm under scrutiny.
• Collaboration & Influence builds strong relationships across functions and partners.

Work Level: Manager / Expert

Close Date: 24th February

Recruiter: Matt Campbell

What we offer:

At M&G were 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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