Head of Diversity, Inclusion & Wellbeing
M&GLondon, England, United Kingdom
Added 24 Jul · still live
Not disclosed
Salary
Not disclosed by employer
£52,900
Going rate
Skilled Worker going rate
This role may qualify for a Skilled Worker visa
SOC 1136 is an eligible occupation, but we classified this role with low confidence (23% match). If the code is right — and M&G is a licensed sponsor — it should qualify, but double-check the occupation eligibility rules against the actual role.
About the role
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.
Role Purpose:
To enhance and execute on our current strategy to foster an inclusive, diverse, and high-performing culture.
Operating within a highly regulated UK financial services environment, this role will ensure M&G plc’s adherence to statutory compliance, including full ownership and responsibility for meeting legal, regulatory and reporting requirements, whilst working within our HR Centre of Expertise for Leadership, Learning and Talent to continue to embed diversity and inclusion (D&I), and wellbeing into everyday practices. This will require close collaboration with HR colleagues, business leaders, and relevant teams across the organisation.
The overall aim of this role will be to help shape a more integrated people agenda that delivers sustainable D&I and wellbeing solutions to achieve better business and performance outcomes.
Key Responsibilities:
Strategy & Execution
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.
Role Purpose:
To enhance and execute on our current strategy to foster an inclusive, diverse, and high-performing culture.
Operating within a highly regulated UK financial services environment, this role will ensure M&G plc’s adherence to statutory compliance, including full ownership and responsibility for meeting legal, regulatory and reporting requirements, whilst working within our HR Centre of Expertise for Leadership, Learning and Talent to continue to embed diversity and inclusion (D&I), and wellbeing into everyday practices. This will require close collaboration with HR colleagues, business leaders, and relevant teams across the organisation.
The overall aim of this role will be to help shape a more integrated people agenda that delivers sustainable D&I and wellbeing solutions to achieve better business and performance outcomes.
Key Responsibilities:
Strategy & Execution
- Lead D&I and wellbeing strategy as an enabler for innovation, growth and resilience aligned to strategic priorities.
- Review infrastructure and operating model to enable effective delivery on agreed strategic priorities, leveraging wider HR centre of expertise / excellence resources and capabilities to help execute on the overall agenda.
- Oversee reporting, governance, and regulatory requirements for D&I and wellbeing e.g. gender pay gap, including targeted action plans to meet requirements with ongoing monitoring and reporting on progress.
- Ensure adherence to evolving legislative and regulatory requirements on D&I.
- Monitor and proactively adapt M&G policies to stay in line with employment law changes.
- Maintain core documentation for regulatory or internal audits and to support GEC and plc Board updates.
- Partner within the leadership, learning and talent centre of expertise to further embed diversity, inclusion and wellbeing in our leadership, learning, performance, and talent management practices.
- Partner with our resourcing team to review external hiring, internal promotion, and career progression practices to offer advice on continuing to eliminate bias and widen talent sourcing pools for diversity.
- Partner effectively across HR to guide continued integration of D&I and wellbeing into people policies, processes, change activity and all internal communications, as applicable.
- Partner with HRDs to provide advice and support to promote diversity, inclusion and wellbeing initiatives in leadership forums and business townhalls, as and when opportunities arise.
- Share external expertise and ongoing insights to strengthen D&I and wellbeing capabilities across HR.
- Work collaboratively with HR colleagues and take personal accountability for maintaining effective controls, improving outcomes for our business, and reducing operational risk.
- Act as a trusted advisor to the HR leadership team and GEC on sensitive cultural and societal topics.
- Represent M&G in industry forums and panels where applicable e.g. Women in Finance Charter and take a lead on managing our external accreditations and initiatives e.g. NES qualification.
- Inspire senior leaders, HR colleagues, and business stakeholders to build commitment, ownership, and momentum behind agreed D&I and wellbeing priorities.
- Provide direction and support to D&I focused business committees, forums and colleague-led networks to help them deliver meaningful activity aligned with overall business goals and D&I priorities.
- Understanding of M&G plc’s business, legislative, regulatory and market environment, and ability to link D&I and wellbeing activities to longer term business performance and organisational outcomes.
- Relevant degree and/or professional qualification (e.g. CIPD).
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).
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: careers@mandg.com
This description is the source posting as it read when we added it. We are not affiliated with M&G, so check their own site for the current details.
Where this offer sits in the market
SOC 1136 · UK · ONS ASHE 2025 · ~170k in sampleP25 £45kP75 £77k
£33kmedian £59kgoing rate £53k£99k
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