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About the Role

The Head of Sustainability Platform is responsible for the strategy, delivery, and operation of technology and data capabilities supporting the organization's sustainability ambitions, investment activities, client commitments, corporate reporting, and regulatory obligations. This role acts as the principal technology partner to Sustainability, leading a global team to ensure a coherent roadmap, effective delivery, and a secure, resilient, scalable, and cost-effective sustainability technology ecosystem.

Responsibilities

Set the Sustainability Technology strategy, target architecture, and multi-year roadmap, aligning stakeholders, priorities, and investment to measurable outcomes.
Ensure Sustainability capabilities are embedded within the enterprise architecture, reusing common data, technology, and operational capabilities.
Own cross-platform delivery planning, identifying and resolving dependencies, and ensuring roadmap achievability.
Own delivery and platform performance, using clear measures to improve quality, predictability, adoption, cost, control effectiveness, security, and operational resilience.
Build a scalable sustainability data and technology capability to support investment decision-making, stewardship, product development, client servicing, and reporting.
Simplify and rationalize the technology estate through consolidation, reuse of enterprise data products, and integration capabilities.
Own solution design quality and governance across the Sustainability platform, partnering with architects for review and approval.
Utilize automation, analytics, and AI to improve research, data operations, reporting, controls, and user experience.
Manage budgets, investment cases, suppliers, and commercial performance to deliver service quality and value.
Lead the multidisciplinary global team, continuously improving ways of working, domain capability, accountability, engagement, and stakeholder confidence.
Use clear measures of team effectiveness and stakeholder sentiment to improve team performance and stakeholder confidence.

Requirements

Essential senior leadership experience in sustainability or ESG technology within asset management or financial services.
End-to-end ownership of a business-critical technology capability spanning strategy, investment, delivery, live service, and benefits realization.
Leadership of globally distributed, multidisciplinary teams, matrix resources, strategic partners, and organizational change.
Commercial and financial leadership covering technology budgets, investment cases, suppliers, and specialist data and technology vendors.
Strategic judgment, communication, and influencing skills, with the ability to align senior stakeholders and translate complexity into clear decisions.
Expert knowledge of how sustainability is embedded across investment, risk, stewardship, product management, client servicing, and corporate reporting.
Deep understanding of sustainability and ESG data, methodologies, models, calculations, vendor content, and associated governance and controls.
Knowledge of climate, nature, and stewardship capabilities and the sustainability disclosure and regulatory landscape relevant to asset managers.
Ability to challenge business requirements, data models, architectures, solution designs, methodologies, controls, and operating-model implications.
Understanding of data governance, cloud, integration, workflow, automation, analytics, AI, cybersecurity, privacy, resilience, and technology risk in regulated financial services.

Skills

Sustainability Technology Strategy
Enterprise Architecture
Cross-platform Delivery Planning
Platform Performance Management
Data and Technology Capability Building
Technology Estate Rationalization
Solution Design Governance
Automation
Analytics
AI
Budget Management
Supplier Management
Team Leadership
Stakeholder Management
ESG Technology
Financial Services Technology
Data Governance
Cloud Computing
Integration
Workflow Automation
Cybersecurity
Privacy Management
Resilience Planning
Technology Risk Management

Location

London

Work Type

Flexible working arrangements considered

Experience Level

Manager/Expert

Benefits

Pension scheme of up to 18%
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
Market-leading Inspiring Families policy
Comprehensive support and paid parental leave (maternity, adoption, surrogacy, 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.
With a heritage dating back more than 175 years, M&G has a long history of innovation in savings and investments, combining asset management and insurance expertise.
M&G offers a wide range of solutions through its Asset Management and Life operating segments.
M&G is creating an exceptional place to work for exceptional talent by focusing on transparency, ownership, and collaboration with care and integrity.

Equal Opportunity

M&G strives to have a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture, underpinned by policies and employee-led networks.
M&G welcomes 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.
M&G welcomes applications from candidates with disabilities and long-term health conditions.
M&G is committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process.
Candidates have the opportunity to request reasonable adjustments when applying.
Candidates needing additional support at any stage can contact careers@mandg.com.