Lead Marketing Communications Compliance Manager - M&G plc.

ZipRecruiter; Stirling; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services provider seeks a Lead Marketing Compliance Manager to oversee compliant marketing communications. The role involves supporting marketing teams with regulatory advice and ensuring industry-leading practices. Candidates should have a solid understanding of UK financial services and strong managerial skills. This position can be homebased or hybrid.

Qualifications

• Experience in delivering regulatory advice on marketing communications.
• Understanding of UK financial services, focusing on life products and investments.
• Strong leadership and management skills.

Responsibilities

• Support Marketing and Customer Teams with regulatory guidance.
• Oversee regulatory input for key initiatives and projects.
• Drive effective issue resolution across stakeholders.

Skills

Regulatory advice

People management

Verbal communication

Written communication

Delivery capabilities

Attention to detail

Job description

Job Description

At M&G, our purpose is to give everyone real confidence to put their money to work. As an international savings and investments business with roots stretching back more than 170 years, we offer a range of financial products and services through Asset Management, Life, and Wealth. All three operating segments work together to deliver attractive financial outcomes for our clients and superior shareholder returns.

Through our behaviors of 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 also offer workplace accommodations to ensure you have what you need to effectively deliver in your role.

The Role: Lead Marketing Compliance Manager

Location: Homebased/Hybrid

M&G Marketing & Insights covers all our growth products within the UK retail market. This includes open life and pension products as well as our investment platform, model portfolio service, and financial advice solutions. We have a broad range of product, investment, and distribution capabilities allowing us to design and deliver products and services that meet customers' needs and objectives.

As a Lead Marketing Compliance Manager, you will play a critical role in delivering compliant marketing material across a range of audiences and mediums, helping us to achieve both good customer and commercial outcomes.

You'll be the first line of defense, working closely with the Marketing and Customer Teams, as well as external business partners, to ensure they receive the advice and support they need to deliver industry-leading marketing and communications.

Key Responsibilities:

• You will support the Marketing and Customer Teams, combining managerial expertise and leadership with an expertise in marketing regulatory technical capability to drive compliant marketing communications.
• You will help support planning and prioritization, directing, facilitating, and overseeing regulatory input to key initiatives and projects including regulatory change, supporting ongoing development and learning within the team and function.
• Role model collaborative business partnering and advice across the business for the UK teams to help reinforce a strong risk culture, driving consistency and efficiency.
• You will demonstrate deep and broad regulatory expertise to deliver the best outcomes for customers, exercising sound judgment at all times.
• Drive quick, effective, and pragmatic issue resolution across multiple senior stakeholders, accommodating differing priorities.

Key Knowledge, Skills & Experience:

• Experience of delivering, overseeing, or supporting regulatory advice and approvals on quality customer-centric marketing communications within financial services in the 1st or 2nd Line of Defense.
• Must have a solid understanding of UK financial services, with a focus on life products and investments.
• Excellent people management skills, inspiring others to perform at their best.
• Strong delivery capabilities, able to deploy resources effectively.
• Adaptable, driving constant improvements to ways of working, standards, processes, and controls, growing skills and capabilities.
• Excellent verbal, written communication, and influencing skills.
• Able to understand the big picture and demonstrate attention to detail, driving out all relevant considerations as the basis for robust and sound decision-making.
• Preferably with relevant experience gained in 1st and 2nd line of defense roles.

Job Level: Manager or Expert

Recruiter: Phoebe Ewers

We have a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture at M&G plc, underpinned by our policies and our employee-led networks which provide networking opportunities, advice, and support for the diverse communities our colleagues represent. Regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, or long-term condition, we are looking to attract, promote, and retain exceptional people. We also welcome those who take part in military service and those returning from career breaks.

M&G is also proud to be a Confident Leader, and we welcome applications from candidates with long-term health conditions, disabilities, or neurodivergent conditions. Being a Confident Leader means that candidates who meet the minimum criteria of a job will be offered an interview if they 'opt in' to the scheme when applying.

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