Lead Marketing Communications Compliance Manager

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 also offer work place accommodations to ensure you have what you need to effectively deliver in your role.

The Role: Lead Marketing Compliance Manager

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 customer’s 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 defence, 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 prioritisation, 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 judgement 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 Defence.
• 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 resource effectively.
• Adaptable, drive 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 the relevant considerations as the basis for robust and sound decision making.
• Preferably with relevant experience gained in 1st and 2nd line of defence roles.

Job Level: Manager or Expert

Reporting to: Head of Marketing Compliance

Closing Date: 8th June 2026

Location: Edinburgh or Stirling (2 - 3 days per week)

Homebased can also be considered

What we offer:

At M&G, we’re committed to helping you thrive and supporting your wellbeing, both at work and beyond. Our benefits are designed to help you balance your professional and personal life, while planning confidently for your future. Our UK benefits include:

• As a savings and Investments firm we are proud to offer a valuable pension scheme of 18%, with 13% made up of Employer Contributions and 5% Employee Contributions. We also offer Share Save and our Share Incentive Plan, together with access to 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 5 extra days and additional flexibility through our Time Off When You Need It policy – to balance your work and personal commitments.  

• Our market leading Inspiring Families policy includes comprehensive support and paid parental leave covering maternity, adoption, surrogacy, and paternity leave - as supporting families is a core aspect of our inclusive culture.

• Health & Protection cover including Private Healthcare, Critical Illness cover and Life Assurance for you, with family options - for peace of mind.

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

We have a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture at M&G, underpinned by our policies and our employee-led networks who provide networking opportunities, advice and support for the diverse communities our colleagues represent. Regardless of gender, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, nationality, disability 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 Disability Confident Leader, and we welcome applications from candidates with long-term health conditions, disabilities, or neuro-divergent conditions. 

If you need assistance or an alternative means of applying for a role due to a disability or additional need, please let us know by contacting us at: [email protected]