Real Estate Team PA - 12 month FTC in London

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.

Purpose: Employed by M&G, this role will support BauMont Real Estate Capital, a specialist real estate investment manager within M&G’s Private Markets business. The successful candidate will play a key role in ensuring the smooth running of day-to-day operations and providing high-quality support to senior stakeholders across the business based in London and Paris.

Key responsibilities:

• Personal Diary Management: provide highly skilled and organised daily management of individual senior Managers diaries.
• Team Diary Management: co-ordinate and diarise large or complex meetings.
• Travel / Itinerary: coordinate and book travel for colleagues.
• Deal with Correspondence and General Issues: manage incoming correspondence and where appropriate take responsibility for dealing with issues autonomously through to completion.
• Governance submissions: complete Gifts & Hospitality submissions for colleagues.
• Expenses: submit expenses for individuals in the team.
• Events: assist with planning and organising of events and the co-ordinate the team’s attendance at industry events such as MIPIM and EXPO.
• Meeting Preparation / Collation of Documents: Ahead of large meetings ensure all documentation, venue details and other relevant information has been collated and distributed.
• Document Creation: prepare high quality documentation as requested, including but not limited to Powerpoint presentations, Excel spreadsheets, reports, agendas, minutes, letters etc.
• Team Support: assist with tasks such as setting up new starters, management of leavers from the business and manage ARC for systems access for the team.
• Ordering stationery: order company branded items such as business cards.
• Investment Committee: support the organising and administration of Investment Committee meetings.
• Subscriptions: manage subscriptions to professional publications.
• Website management: update website with press releases, team bios and important company news.
• Invoices and payments: assist with sending out invoices, processing invoices and setting-up payments.
• Admin Support: assist with circulating messages to the BauMont team and be point of contact on the team for administration related tasks.

Requirements and experience:

• Proven track record in providing high quality support to senior individuals at Director / Board level.
• Experienced in handling sensitive and confidential information/matters.
• Confident to work autonomously, with initiative, ‘managing upwards’ as required.
• Experienced in supporting a number of colleagues across teams.
• Ability to prioritise demanding workloads and to juggle multiple competing priorities.
• Highly organised and efficient.
• Knowledge of or a willingness to learn the M&G and BauMont business processes and systems.
• Advanced skills in Microsoft applications e.g. Word, Powerpoint, Excel, Outlook, Copilot.

What we offer:

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).
• Access to our Share Save and Share Incentive Plan, alongside financial wellbeing and support services.
• 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.
• Health & Protection cover includes Private Healthcare, Critical Illness cover and Life Assurance for you, with additional family options.

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