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 India

M&G India is an employer hiring in India (sector: BFSI / Investments / Insurance). In its own words: "Feel confident in your long-term financial future with M&G."

Its finance, accounts, audit and tax openings in India are mostly in Mumbai and Pune.

• Industry: BFSI / Investments / Insurance