Mark Hutton

Portfolio Director at M&G plc with 25+ years experience working in Financial Services

Greater Glasgow Area

About

A highly skilled change practitioner with over 25 years’ experience. I am a driven, self-starter who loves a challenge. Managing change investment of up to £100m and with team sizes varying between 20 and 200. I have successfully delivered a mix of complex regulatory, strategic, propositional and operational change with a focus on delivering real customer value. With experience and accreditation in both waterfall and agile methodologies, I can tackle most change initiatives. I have a proven drive for building, leading and working within successful transformational business and technology change teams for Financial Services clients including M&G, Royal London, Bright Grey, Scottish Provident, Santander Group, Tesco Personal Finance, Royal Bank of Scotland, Aviva and Direct Line. Experienced At • Proven, accredited, portfolio, programme and project management skills. • Ability to coach and mentor others in this professional capacity. • Strong, in depth, knowledge of the financial services market. • Cross functional focus in programme & portfolio management. • Piloting and evolving good practices. Modifying these for best use to suit a specific organisation. • Encouraging collaborative teamwork working with delivery partners for the longer term.

Experience

  • M&G (6 yrs 11 mos)
    • Portfolio Director for AI, Data, Advice, and Marketing Technology
      Dec 2025 - Present · 7 mos

    • Change and Transformation Director (Advice)
      Dec 2020 - Present · 5 yrs 7 mos

    • Head of Transformation Delivery
      Aug 2019 - Dec 2020 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Royal London (16 yrs 1 mo)
    • Programme Manager
      Jan 2013 - Aug 2019 · 6 yrs 8 mos

    • Project Manager
      Aug 2003 - Dec 2012 · 9 yrs 5 mos

  • Principal Consultant at Spektra Systems
    Mar 2000 - Aug 2003 · 3 yrs 6 mos

  • Technical Project Leader at Advanced Recognition Limited
    Apr 1996 - Mar 2000 · 4 yrs

  • Software Engineer at Memex Limited
    Apr 1992 - Apr 1996 · 4 yrs 1 mo