Head of Private Markets Investment Platform

At M&G, 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 offer workplace adjustments to ensure you have the support you need to succeed in your role.

The Role:

The Head of Private Markets Investment Platform will shape and lead the technology platform and data enablement underpinning M&G’s Private Markets growth ambitions across Private Credit and Structured Finance, Private Equity, Infrastructure and Real Estate. As the principal technology partner to the Chief Investment Officer and Private Markets leadership team, the role will translate business strategy into a coherent platform vision, target architecture and funded multi-year roadmap. 

The role owns the end-to-end investment technology estate, balancing transformation, business-as-usual change and live service to create simpler workflows, trusted data and resilient, scalable platforms. It will also build a high-performing, globally distributed organisation with clear accountability, strong Private Markets expertise and mature engineering, delivery and service disciplines. 

Key Accountabilities:

Strategy, Architecture and Investment Governance 

• 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 genuinely 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 towards the highest-value outcomes.  

Platform Transformation and Integration 

• 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. 

Data, Analytics and AI 

• 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. 

Service, Resilience and Control 

• 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. 

Commercial and Supplier Management 

• 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. 

Organisation and Capability 

• 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. 

Key Skills and Experience:

Skills and Experience 

• 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. 

Work Level: Manager/Expert

Location: London

What we offer:

We’re dedicated to supporting your wellbeing and helping you thrive, both at work and beyond. Our benefits are designed to help you balance your professional and personal life, and financially plan for the future. Our UK benefits include:

• A valuable pension scheme of up to 18% (13% made up of employer contributions and 5% employee contributions).
• Access to our Share Save and Share Incentive Plan, alongside 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 five extra days. Our Time Off When You Need It policy gives you the flexibility - to balance work and personal commitments.
• Our market-leading Inspiring Families policy includes comprehensive support and paid parental leave covering maternity, adoption, surrogacy, and paternity leave - because supporting families is an important part of our inclusive culture.
• Health & Protection cover includes Private Healthcare, Critical Illness cover and Life Assurance for you, with additional family options - for peace of mind.

To explore more about life at M&G and our full benefits offering, visit Life at M&G

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. If you would like to participate in the initiative, you will have the opportunity to indicate this on your application.

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: [email protected]