Communication & Capability Lead

Job Description Summary

People are living longer than ever before, and we’re excited by the opportunities this brings. As a purpose-led business, we’re focused on supporting our customers as they navigate through new stages of their lives and all the moments that matter. We’re here for everyone who wants to make the most of their time on the planet and leave it a little better than they found it - however grand or humble their ambitions. Working at Aegon Asset Management, you’ll play an important part in helping achieve this. We have three behaviors that are central to how we operate as a team and a business: we step up, we tune in and we’re a force for good.

Aegon Asset Management (Aegon AM) is a leading global investor. Our 390 investment professionals manage and advise on assets of US $329 billion for a global client base of pension plans, public funds, insurance companies, banks, wealth managers, family offices and foundations.

We organize our firm around four investment platforms: fixed income, real assets, equities and multi-asset & solutions, which includes a fiduciary and multi-manager business. Each investment platform has dedicated teams with deep asset-class expertise, organized globally and committed to maximizing client benefit from their specialist areas.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Communication and Capability Lead to join us in either Edinburgh, London or the Netherlands.

The Communication and Capability Lead is responsible for supporting employee engagement and embedding a continuous improvement agile culture. This will be done through coordinating communication and capability initiatives to ensure CTO colleagues understand how we together create business value, inspired by sharing our achievements and knowledge and ensuring that everyone has access to the resources, training and development opportunities needed to build skills and capabilities to succeed.

**Job Description**:
**Responsibilities**:

- Manage and maintain CTO communication platforms to ensure colleagues are up to date on AAM and CTO news, global ways of working and the impact delivered by our CTO teams.
- Write, edit, review, and share both internal and external CTO communications in a way that demonstrates a deep understanding of message content and impact on the intended audience.
- Ensure consistent messaging across CTO from consistency of job descriptions to internal CTO communications.
- Plan and manage content and strategy for events such as fire pit talks, demo sessions or department announcements and meet-ups.
- Support employee engagement initiatives, including execution of CTO action plans resulting from employee engagement survey results.
- Coordinate people initiatives in partnership with HR around learning and development, skills inventory, and capability building.
- Recommend and maintain platforms for knowledge management, ensuring need-to know information is easily available to colleagues throughout their journey from onboarding to leaving.
- Ensure preferred sourcing approach is taken by CTO to meet capability gaps i.e. upskilling colleagues where we have enduring need for capability in the organization, or temporary/syntel resource for short-term one off requirements
- Build and maintain relationships within CTO, across the organization, and with external partners and agencies, ensuring information pathways are effective and efficient.
- Support implementation of a continuous improvement program that supports a risk aware and cost-conscious culture.
- Recommend changes to processes to improve and achieve greater efficiencies.
- Work collaboratively with Business Control Manager and Finance Control Analyst in Business Management Office team. Identify process efficiencies and ensure all initiatives and activities mapped end to end within BMO capabilities.

**Experience**:

- Ability to execute multiple initiatives proactively and efficiently, highlighting trends, risk and opportunities to senior-level management and key stakeholders
- Action oriented with an innovative approach to improve operational efficiency, service delivery and information management across multiple lines of businesses

Qualifications, Skills, and Experience:

- Some Technology / Asset Management background preferred
- Outstanding written and oral communication skills
- Analytical, curious and has attention to detail
- Proactive and motivated; to learn, understand, analyse, and drive outcomes
- Continuous improvement mindset to identify efficiencies and make improvements

How we look after you

Outside of a competitive salary, working with us comes with a range of benefits that you can access from day one, including:

- Non-contributary pension between 9-13% dependant on age
- Life assurance cover
- Private medical cover and health assessments
- Access to
- Peppy
- a digital health app for employees of all genders with a range of support covering areas such as general health, menopause, fertility, baby etc
- Cri