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About the Role

The Head of Private Markets Investment Platform will shape and lead the technology platform and data enablement for M&G’s Private Markets growth. This role acts as the principal technology partner to the Chief Investment Officer and Private Markets leadership team, translating business strategy into a platform vision, target architecture, and a multi-year roadmap. The role owns the end-to-end investment technology estate, focusing on transformation, business-as-usual change, and live service to enhance workflows, data integrity, and platform scalability. It also involves building a high-performing, globally distributed organization with strong expertise and mature disciplines.

Responsibilities

Own the Private Markets platform strategy, target architecture, and funded roadmap, aligning investment priorities to measurable business outcomes.
Establish a coherent platform model that reduces fragmentation and technical debt, promotes reusable enterprise capabilities, and preserves differentiated asset-class requirements.
Build trusted partnerships with senior Investment, Operations, and Technology stakeholders to agree priorities, resolve competing demands, and direct funding and resources.
Lead transformation of the end-to-end investment lifecycle, simplifying processes, reducing manual intervention, and delivering scalable digital workflows.
Deliver strategic and business-as-usual change predictably, while integrating acquired businesses without disrupting critical specialist capabilities or services.
Partner with the Asset Management Data Platform to establish trusted, governed, and reusable Private Markets data with clear ownership, quality, and lineage.
Use automation, analytics, and AI to improve investment decisions, accelerate processing, and reduce operational effort within appropriate governance, human oversight, and risk controls.
Own platform health, production service, and operational resilience, ensuring stability, cybersecurity, privacy, and continuity remain within risk appetite.
Maintain clear service, risk, delivery, adoption, and benefits measures to demonstrate accountability, service quality, and return on investment.
Own portfolio financial management, including budgets, forecasts, investment cases, and cost optimisation.
Govern strategic vendors and platforms—including DealCloud, Verity, and Wall Street Office—to ensure architectural alignment, contractual control, strong service performance, adoption, and value for money.
Build the workforce and capabilities required to deliver the platform strategy, strengthening domain expertise, engineering, data, delivery, and service disciplines.
Establish integrated, outcome-led teams with clear ownership and decision rights, while promoting common platforms and enterprise standards across Asset Management Technology.

Requirements

Senior technology leadership experience within asset management, alternative investments, banking, or another regulated financial-services environment.
Ownership of a complex investment platform spanning strategy, transformation, business-as-usual change, and live service.
Strong understanding of the Private Markets investment lifecycle, with depth in at least one relevant asset class.
Experience defining platform, architecture, and data strategy and translating it into a funded roadmap.
Delivery of major platform, data, and process transformation with sustained business adoption.
Leadership of globally distributed, multidisciplinary teams and matrix partners.
Responsibility for operational resilience, technology risk, budgets, suppliers, and regulatory or audit engagement.
Executive influence, commercial judgement, and the ability to resolve competing priorities.
Experience integrating acquired businesses or simplifying fragmented technology estates.
Practical understanding of data, cloud, integration, workflow, analytics, automation, and AI in a regulated environment.

Skills

Private Markets investment lifecycle
Platform strategy
Architecture strategy
Data strategy
Technology leadership
Investment platform management
Transformation delivery
Global team leadership
Operational resilience
Technology risk management
Budget management
Supplier governance
Regulatory engagement
Executive influence
Commercial judgement
Data management
Cloud computing
Integration
Workflow automation
Analytics
Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Location

London

Work Type

Flexible working arrangements

Experience Level

Manager/Expert

Benefits

Pension scheme of up to 18% (13% employer, 5% employee)
Share Save and Share Incentive Plan
Financial wellbeing and support services
38 days annual leave (including bank holidays)
Opportunity to purchase up to five extra days of leave
Time Off When You Need It policy
Inspiring Families policy (comprehensive support and paid parental leave for maternity, adoption, surrogacy, and paternity)
Private Healthcare
Critical Illness cover
Life Assurance
Additional family options for Health & Protection cover

About the Company

M&G's purpose is to give everyone real confidence to put their money to work.
Heritage dating back more than 175 years with a long history of innovation in savings and investments.
Combines asset management and insurance expertise to offer a wide range of solutions.
Two distinct operating segments: Asset Management and Life.
Values: telling it like it is, owning it now, and moving it forward together with care and integrity.
Creating an exceptional place to work for exceptional talent.

Equal Opportunity

We will consider flexible working arrangements for any of our roles and offer workplace adjustments to ensure you have the support you need to succeed in your role.
At M&G we strive to have a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture, underpinned by our policies and employee-led networks that offer networking, support and development opportunities for the diverse communities our colleagues represent.
We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds – across gender, ethnicity, age, disability, sexual orientation and more – including neurodivergent individuals, career returners and those with military service experience.
M&G is proud to be Level 3: Disability Confident Leader under the UK Government Disability Confident employer scheme, and we welcome applications from candidates with disabilities and long-term health conditions.
We are committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process.
All candidates have the opportunity to request reasonable adjustments when applying.
If you need any additional support at any stage, please contact us at: careers@mandg.com