Head of Real Estate Fund Governance

The Role

The Head of Real Estate Fund Governance is a senior management role responsible for leading and overseeing fund governance and company secretarial activities globally. The role provides leadership to global fund company secretarial teams, driving a consistent operating model, governance framework and service delivery approach across Real Estate. As a senior member of local leadership team, the role is accountable for fostering strong governance standards, enhancing collaboration across regions, and leading organisational change initiatives that support effective and sustainable growth. The role champions a culture of excellence, accountability and continuous improvement while developing the capability of teams and future leaders. This is an excellent time to join a highly successful Real Estate team in a newly established leadership role. Providing the opportunity enhance operational excellence and play a key role in the next phase of the teams growth and evolution.

Main Responsibilities

• Lead and oversee global Real Estate fund governance and company secretarial activities of complex Real Estate structures across the UK, Europe and Asia.
• Provide leadership to fund company secretarial teams globally, ensuring effective governance, regulatory compliance and operational excellence.
• Ensure that a comprehensive company secretariat and corporate governance service is provided to the Real Estate related fund/SPV boards and M&G Real Estate board committees, and other boards/committees, as required.
• Develop and implement operating model enhancements that promotes consistency, scalability and collaboration across regions.
• Drive digital enablement.
• Drive organisational change initiatives to simplify processes, improve effectiveness and create greater alignment across teams.
• Hold and discharge responsibilities associated with UK and where required, European directorships, ensuring appropriate governance standards and fiduciary obligations are met.
• Build and maintain strong partnerships with the corporate company secretarial teams globally, ensuring efficient operating practices and a culture of knowledge sharing and collaboration across all jurisdictions.
• Build strong relationships with senior stakeholders, boards, regulators and business leaders to support effective governance outcomes.
• Act as a member of the local senior management team, acting as a senior escalation point and contributing to strategic decision-making and business planning.
• Contribute to commercial growth by leading further commercialisation of fund governance and company secretarial services to funds/mandates.
• Establish and maintain governance frameworks, policies and standards that support consistent execution across jurisdictions.
• Promote effective collaboration between teams, creating a culture of partnership, accountability and knowledge sharing.
• Lead, develop and coach direct reports, building a high-performing and inclusive team environment.
• Support succession planning and talent development to strengthen organisational capability and future leadership pipelines.
• Monitor risks and governance matters, ensuring appropriate escalation and resolution where required.
• Drive continuous improvement and adoption of best practice governance processes globally.

Key Knowledge, Skills and Experience

• Significant experience in corporate secretarial or governance roles within Real Estate/Real Assets/Alternative fund environments.
• Significant experience of Real Estate fund governance, corporate governance and company secretarial practices.
• Experience operating across multiple jurisdictions and managing complex governance frameworks.
• Ability to lead through change and proven experience in successfully implementing global operating models.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence at executive, board and regulatory level.
• Strong commercial awareness and strategic thinking capability.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage and influence diverse audiences.
• Ability to balance strategic priorities with effective execution and operational oversight.
• Experience leading geographically dispersed teams and driving collaboration across functions.
• Strong judgement, decision-making and risk management capability.
• Commitment to developing people and fostering an inclusive, high-performing culture.

Qualifications

Professional governance qualification (CGI or equivalent) required.

Work Level: Manager/Expert Location: London

What we offer

• 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.

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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.

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M&G is a leading international savings and investments business, managing money for around 4.6 million individual clients and more than 900 institutional clients in 38 offices worldwide. As at 31 December 2024, we had £345.9 billion of assets under management and administration. 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.

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