Head of Project Execution (VN2284)

About Marex

Marex Group plc (NASDAQ: MRX) is a diversified global financial services platform providing essential liquidity, market access and infrastructure services to clients across energy, commodities and financial markets. The group offers comprehensive breadth and depth of coverage across four core services: clearing, agency and execution, market making, and hedging and investment solutions. It has a leading franchise in many major metals, energy and agricultural products, with access to 60 exchanges. The group provides access to the world’s major commodity markets, covering a broad range of clients that include some of the largest commodity producers, consumers and traders, banks, hedge funds and asset managers. With more than 40 offices worldwide, the group has over 2,300 employees across Europe, Asia and the Americas.

Role Summary

The Global Head of Project Execution is a senior management role responsible for leading the delivery of complex programmes and projects across Marex, including acquisitions, significant regulatory changes, and cross‑functional initiatives. This role ensures that all projects are delivered within agreed scope, time, cost, and quality parameters, while minimising business disruption and enabling early realisation of benefits. The role also oversees the development and validation of the Target Operating Model (TOM) and ensures readiness and compliance during project execution phases, enforcing change policies and acting as a central point of contact for strategic change projects being delivered by the Project Execution function.

Responsibilities

• Lead and oversee the Project Execution team, ensuring coordination, performance, and continuous development.
• Act as the point of escalation for the Project Execution team, offering guidance and resolution for complex delivery challenges or cross‑functional dependencies.
• Deliver complex programmes and projects (including acquisitions, significant regulatory changes, and cross‑functional initiatives) within agreed scope, time, cost, and quality, whilst minimising business disruption and allowing for early realisation of benefits.
• Ensure project execution phase readiness and compliance, while minimising risk and implementing control measures.
• Provide Steering Group engagement and act as a conduit for escalation, ensuring effective governance programme execution.
• Lead programme governance, including planning, reporting, and risk management, to ensure transparency and accountability.
• Collaborate with senior stakeholders to align project objectives with strategic goals and ensure successful delivery.
• Monitor and report on project performance, identifying and resolving issues to maintain delivery momentum.
• Define and oversee benefits realisation plans to ensure that project outcomes deliver measurable value and align with strategic business objectives.
• Embed a culture of continuous improvement by capturing lessons learned, conducting post‑implementation reviews, and refining delivery practices accordingly.
• Ensure compliance with Marex’s Change Policy and Framework.

Standard Company Responsibilities

• Ensuring compliance with the company’s regulatory requirements.
• Adhere to the operational risk framework for your role, ensuring that all regulatory or company determined parameters are complied with.
• Role model for demonstrating highest level standards of integrity and conduct and reflecting Company Values.
• At all times comply with the FCA’s Code of Conduct.
• Fully aware of and adhere to internal policies that relate to you, your role or any other activities for which you have any level of responsibility.
• Report any breaches of policy to Compliance and/or your supervisor as required.
• Escalate risk events immediately.
• Provide input to risk management processes, as required.

Skills and Experience

• Proven leadership experience in managing large, cross‑functional programme and project teams.
• Extensive track record of delivering complex programmes and projects (e.g., acquisitions, regulatory change, strategic initiatives) within scope, time, cost, and quality constraints.
• Strong understanding of governance frameworks, programme controls, and risk mitigation strategies.
• Exceptional stakeholder engagement and communication skills, with the ability to influence and build trust across senior leadership and functional teams.
• Experience in developing and validating Target Operating Models (TOM), including governance structures, workflows, and systems integration.
• Ability to operate effectively in high‑pressure environments and manage competing priorities.
• Industry knowledge in financial services (preferred).
• Relevant professional qualifications such as PMP, PRINCE2, MSP, or equivalent.

Competencies

• Drives for high performance and accountability, ensuring that programmes and projects deliver measurable value and impact.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to foster trust and credibility with stakeholders at all levels.
• Demonstrated leadership and ability to model expected behaviours.
• Experience in change management methodologies and frameworks.
• Maintains effectiveness under pressure and adapts to changing circumstances with a positive and solution‑oriented mindset.
• Responsively adjusts to shifting priorities, emerging challenges, and evolving stakeholder needs, while remaining focused on successful outcomes and providing prioritisation and support to the Project Execution team.

Conduct Rules

• Act with integrity.
• Act with due skill, care and diligence.
• Be open and cooperative with the FCA, the PRA and other regulators.
• Pay due regard to the interests of customers and treat them fairly.
• Observe proper standard of market conduct.
• Act to deliver good outcomes for retail customers.

Company Values

• Respect – Clients are at the heart of our business, with superior execution and superb client service the foundation of the firm. We respect our clients and always treat them fairly.
• Integrity – Doing business the right way is the only way. We hold ourselves to a high ethical standard in everything we do – our clients expect this and we demand it of ourselves.
• Collaborative – We work in teams – open and direct communication and the willingness to work hard and collaboratively are the basis for effective teamwork. Working well with others is necessary for us to succeed at what we do.
• Developing our People – Our people are the basis of our competitive advantage. We look to “grow our own” and make Marex the place ambitious, hardworking, talented people choose to build their careers.
• Adaptable and Nimble – Our size and flexibility is an advantage. We are big enough to support our client’s various needs, and adaptable and nimble enough to respond quickly to changing conditions or requirements. A non‑bureaucratic, but well‑controlled environment fosters initiative as well as employee satisfaction.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

Marex is fully committed to being an inclusive employer and providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process for all. We will provide reasonable adjustments to remove any disadvantage to you being considered for this role. We value the differences that a diverse workforce brings to the company. We welcome applications from candidates returning to the workforce. Also, Marex is committed to avoiding circumstances in which the appearance or possibility of conflicts of interest may exist within the hiring process. If you would like to receive any information in a different way or would like us to do anything differently to help you, please include it in your application.