M&G India | MIST - Delivery Manager

What you’ll do

• Grounded in a vibrant culture with strong foundations, we are central to how M&G is transforming as a business.
• The role requires strong delivery management experience, with the ability to turn agreed scope into clear plans, coordinate stakeholders across teams, and maintain momentum through effective tracking, issue management and communication.
• Coordinate input to assess effort, dependencies and delivery options.
• Support agreement of funding and resource allocation with relevant budget holders.
• Develop and maintain clear delivery plans with named owners, milestones, dependencies and progress tracking.
• Drive disciplined execution through effective resource planning, RAID management and regular check-ins with delivery owners.
• Ensure delivery activity remains aligned across workstreams and that emerging issues are surfaced early.
• Provide regular progress updates, including clear issue flagging, escalation routes and recommended actions.
• Track costs against agreed funding and highlight any emerging risks or pressures.
• Maintain RAID logs, supporting timely resolution.
• Prepare materials for key meetings and governance forums, track actions and ensure appropriate follow-up.
• Support engagement with internal review teams and external audit where required.
• Provide clear communication to stakeholders on progress, risks, dependencies and actions needed to keep delivery on track.
• Coordinate delivery across related model development initiatives to support joined-up implementation and effective handover into valuation and reporting processes.
• Established in 2003, we have offices in Mumbai and Pune.
• Working within the Model Implementation & Support team, part of the Actuarial Modelling & Valuations function in M&G Finance, this role is responsible for coordinating the delivery of model development activity across a complex portfolio of change.

Requirements

• Strong delivery management capability, including planning, prioritisation, dependency management and progress tracking.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to provide clear updates on progress, risks, dependencies and actions required.
• Good understanding of governance, change control, RAID management and issue escalation disciplines.
• Ability to coordinate across multiple workstreams and maintain delivery momentum in a complex change environment.
• Experience of coordinating delivery activity across a portfolio of model development or change initiatives, including scope shaping, effort assessment, milestone planning and dependency management.
• Experience of working with senior stakeholders, delivery owners, budget holders and governance forums to support timely decisions, funding/resource alignment and effective escalation of risks and issues.
• Experience within actuarial, finance, model development, valuation, reporting or a similar controlled delivery environment would be advantageous.
• Graduate degree in Finance, Actuarial Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Business Management, Engineering or a related discipline.
• Project management certification such as PMP, PRINCE2 Practitioner, AgilePM, Scrum Master, SAFe Agilist or equivalent delivery/project management qualification is desirable.
• Postgraduate qualification such as MBA, MSc, MCom, CA, CFA or equivalent professional qualification would be advantageous.

M&G plc

M&G traces its origins to 1931, when it launched one of the first unit trusts in the United Kingdom. It became a separate listed company in October 2019, when Prudential plc completed the demerger of M&G plc and its shares were admitted to the main market of the London Stock Exchange. The group is based in the UK and manages savings and investments for retail and institutional clients. In India it operates through M&G Global Services Private Limited, set up in 2003, with offices in Powai in Mumbai and Viman Nagar in Pune. The India unit works with colleagues worldwide on business transformation, digital capability and operations. M&G plc itself does not offer financial services in India.

Finance hiring is mainly in Mumbai, with one treasury-systems role in Pune. Postings cover fund accounting oversight for private and public assets, balance sheet accounting, bond reporting, finance consolidation, treasury support on Kyriba, investment compliance, leveraged finance research and private markets research. Seniority runs from manager to vice president and head of function. The consolidation roles ask for a qualified CA with investment-industry experience (six years for one role and fourteen for the senior one), while others prefer CFA, CA, MBA Finance or FRM.

• Industry: Savings and investments: asset management, life and pensions, and wealth, with a focus on public and private markets
• Headquarters: London, United Kingdom (listed on the London Stock Exchange)
• In India: M&G Global Services Private Limited, established in 2003, with offices in Mumbai (Powai) and Pune (Viman Nagar) serving as the group's innovation and digital hub