Third Party Due Diligence Manager

Job Description
At Aberdeen, our ambition is to be the UK's leading Wealth & Investments group.

Strengthening talent and culture is one of our strategic priorities. We strive to make Aberdeen a great place to work so that we can attract and retain the industry's best talent.

Our people put our stakeholders at the heart of everything they do by helping us to make a positive difference to the lives of our clients, customers, colleagues, shareholders, and society.

We are focused on growing our direct and advised wealth platforms and repositioning our specialist asset management business to meet client demand. We are committed to providing excellent client service, supported by leading technology and talent.

Aberdeen Comprises Three Businesses, Interactive Investor (ii), Investments, And Adviser, Each Of Which Focuses On Meeting And Adapting To Our Clients' Evolving Needs

• interactive investor, the UK's second largest direct-to-consumer investment platform, enables individuals in the UK to plan, save, and invest in the way that works for them.
• Our Adviser business provides financial planning solutions and technology for UK financial advisers, enabling them to create value for their customers.
• Our Investments business is a specialist asset manager that focuses on areas where we have both strength and scale to capitalise on the key themes shaping the market, through either public markets or alternative asset classes.

About The Department
The Third Party Risk Management Team ('TPRM') sits within the Chief Operating Office (COO), which was established earlier this year as part of a strategic restructure. The COO function includes a range of teams, including, Operational Resilience, Cyber Security, and Incident Management, all central to ensuring our people and data are safe and we understand and manage risk, including third party risk, within our risk appetite.

About The Role
Occupying an important position within the Third Party Risk Management function, your work will focus on leading and managing a small team responsible for coordinating, prioritising, and assessing due diligence responses from our third party suppliers which covers multiple risk domains (e.g., information security, operational resilience, conduct, compliance). The role ensures that third-party engagements meet Aberdeen's internal risk standards and regulatory requirements, supporting the organisation's TPRM framework and risk appetite.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing due diligence team.
• Oversee the review and analysis of supplier due diligence questionnaires and supporting documentation.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders (e.g., SRMs, InfoSec, Operational Resilience), to ensure final DD outputs are complete and accurate.
• Maintain and improve due diligence processes, templates, and tools.
• Leverage third-party risk platforms and tools to streamline assessments.

About The Candidate
The ideal candidate will possess the following:

• Demonstratable experience in third-party risk management, supplier due diligence, or risk and compliance is preferred.
• Strong understanding of risk domains such as cybersecurity, operational resilience, conduct, and regulatory compliance is highly desirable.
• Experience managing teams and driving operational excellence.
• Excellent analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Familiarity with due diligence platforms (e.g., ServiceNow, etc.) is a plus.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer. If you have a disability and would like to apply to one of our UK roles under the Disability Confident Scheme, please notify us by completing the relevant section in our candidate questionnaire. One of our team will reach out to support you through your application process.

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. This includes 40 days' annual leave, a 16% employer pension contribution, a discretionary performance-based bonus (where applicable), private healthcare and a range of flexible benefits – including gym discounts, season ticket loans and access to an employee discount portal. You can read more about our benefits here.

Our business
Enabling our clients to be better investors drives everything we do. Our business is structured around three distinct areas – our vectors of growth – focused on our clients' changing needs. You can find out more about what we do here.

An inclusive way of working
Whatever way you like to work, if you have the talent and commitment to join our team, we'd like to hear from you.

At Aberdeen we've adopted a 'blended working' approach. This approach combines the benefits of face-to-face collaboration, coaching and connecting in our offices with the flexibility of working from home. It enables colleagues to find a balance that works for their roles, their teams, our clients and our business.

An inclusive culture, where diverse perspectives drive our actions, is at the core of who we are and what we do. If you need assistance with your application, or a reasonable adjustment to your interview arrangements – for example, because you are neurodivergent, or have a physical, sensory, cognitive, mental, visible or invisible disability – please let us know and we'll be happy to help.

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.