Head of Multi-Asset

4 days ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom abrdn Full time

Job Description

At abrdn, we empower our clients to plan, save and invest for their futures.

Through the expertise, insight and innovation of our team, we aim to help clients create more ways for money to make an impact. We set our sights on giving them more confidence to achieve their goals, and more clarity about what they need next. And we focus on delivering outcomes that are more than just financial – by investing sustainably to build a better world.

About the department

The Multi-Asset and Alternatives Investment Specialist team is dedicated to the commercialisation of our businesses. The remit of the team is to build high levels of visibility for our capabilities both internally and externally. The team plays a key role by acting as the link between a range of internal- and external-facing teams. The Investment Specialist team is a global function including a team of four in the UK.

About the role

The role involves leading the Multi-Asset & Alternatives Investment Specialist team to cover three key areas 1. drive the commercial strategy for the asset class; 2. deliver unique content to promote our capabilities and 3. represent the asset class with clients and prospects.

The role is part of a Global Investment Specialists function, reporting to the Head of Commercial and Strategy, CIO Office. On a day-to-day basis, the role and team are part of and sit with the Multi-Asset & Alternatives Investment teams. The role also reports to the Chief Operating Officer, Alternatives and Multi-Asset.

Key priorities for the role include:

Leading the investment specialists team to ensure resources and talent are allocated to drive the commercial plan. Collaborating with Client Group colleagues to drive activity on our funds, partnering with sales to identify new opportunities and target gatekeepers and championing the creation and execution of campaigns. Delivering unique content to promote capabilities. Investment specialists are responsible for creating and distributing unique content to promote their asset class. This includes content for RFPs, white papers, research reports, and blog posts. Representing the teams at external meetings including clients, prospects, media and external events. This includes initial prospect meetings with large clients or the full end-to-end sales process with smaller/mid-size clients. Work closely with the Product and Client teams to support the new product development process develop messaging, market testing and, and launches. Skills and ExperienceThe successful candidate will bring extensive investment specialist experience in Multi-Asset and Alternatives and be able to demonstrate: Strong knowledge of Investment markets and relevant products. Experience working within an Asset Managers and/or consultant firm. A clear understanding of the drivers of investment/distribution success. Strong people leader who can operate in global matrix organisations. A strong working knowledge and experience of working within investment teams or client facing teams in a technical sales role. A good working knowledge of the legal and regulatory environment relating to the products of the team. Our Benefits There's more to working life than coming home with a good salary. We have an environment where you can learn, get involved and be supported. When you join us, your reward will be one of the best around, including 40 days annual leave, a competitive employer pension contribution, a discretionary, performance based bonus, private healthcare and a range of flexible benefits including gym discounts, season ticket loans and access to an employee discount site amongst many others. You can read more about our benefits here.

Our Inclusive Culture

We are committed to exploring the possibilities of working smarter. This means we'd like to hear from you, whatever way you like to work.

We have a long-term commitment to building inclusive workplaces; we value diversity in our workforce and welcome enquiries from everyone. If you need assistance or a reasonable adjustment due to a disability please let us know as part of your application and we will assist. You can find out more about our inclusive culture here.We're committed to providing an inclusive workplace where all forms of difference are valued and which is free from any form of unfair or unlawful treatment. We define diversity in its broadest sense – this includes but is not limited to our diversity of educational and professional backgrounds, experience, cognitive and neurodiversity, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, religion or belief and ethnicity and geographical provenance. We support a culture that values meritocracy, fairness and transparency and welcomes enquiries from everyone.If you need assistance or an adjustment due to a disability please let us know as part of your application and we will assist.



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