Job Description

At abrdn, our purpose is to enable our clients to be better investors.

Clients worldwide trust us to find future-fit investment opportunities to deliver the outcomes they want. Our technology and insight help empower them to make better decisions, while the powerful partnerships we build help to enhance the expertise that we offer. And by enabling clients to invest responsibly, it helps us to build a better world.

About the department

The Private Placements function is responsible for originating and managing non-publicly-traded (senior) debt investments. The function is also responsible for investments in a wide variety of private placement securities, including investment and non-investment grade securities.

Investments often involve structured and/or project finance transactions, and may include equity features or participations.

About the role

As the Investment Manager you will get the opportunity to support the origination and management of our growing Private Placement and Infrastructure business.

You will get to be a part of running several private credit mandates for key clients, mainly in the insurance and pensions arena, as well as internally managed funds and facilitating co-investments alongside large institutional investors.

Within this role you will get the opportunity to contribute to growing this business as well as managing an extensive portfolio of existing investments.

Key Responsibilities

• Developing and maintaining a broad series of relationships with external brokers, originators and advisers. Transmitting an understanding of our investment requirements is critical, as is screening out transactions that are unlikely to fit within our investment mandates.

• Assistance in structuring of transactions in a variety of legal formats (loans, notes, etc.), including security arrangements under a range of jurisdictions. Negotiating a range of financial and other covenants on transactions.

• Working with clients to discuss transactions, pipelines, outlook and performance of exiting investments

• Managing transactions from concept through execution to completion and maintenance

About the candidate requirements

• Experience within a bank, insurer or asset manager – ideally within a front-line credit investment role

• Experience of business and financial analysis – preferably from a credit perspective

• Proven ability to lead transactions through their full life cycle

• Demonstrable experience in risk analysis and risk pricing

• Experience across a range of asset classes, ideally corporate and infrastructure. Experience with project or concession finance would be of particular value

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer. Therefore, 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 and 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.

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.