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 opportunities for their money to make a meaningful impact. Together, we deliver solutions that enable clients to achieve their goals while building a better world.

About the Department

abrdn Portfolio Solutions Ltd (aPSL) has established a reputation as a provider of premium investment solutions combined with exceptional client service. We achieve this through the expertise of our people, the strength of our products, and the efficiency of our processes. The aPSL Investment team delivers tailored investment solutions for a diverse and growing client base.

The team operates a highly collaborative investment process, blending a distinctive philosophy with disciplined risk management and a shared commitment to excellence. Team members are encouraged to develop relationships across abrdn, fostering innovation and integration with the broader business.

About the Role

As an Investment Manager with aPSL, you will play a critical role in providing investment solutions that meet client needs. You will take responsibility for a broad range of fund sector coverage, leading research efforts, generating new fund ideas, and delivering evidence-backed recommendations. In this role, you will blend funds into composite solutions, engage with internal and external stakeholders, and represent aPSL at key forums and committees.

Key Responsibilities

• Chair and attend fund manager meetings, offering insightful evaluations of current and prospective funds.

• Lead fund sector research, driving projects and delivering robust recommendations in collaboration with the Multi Manager Solutions (MMS) team.

• Develop and present tailored composite fund solutions to meet specific mandates.

• Act as the subject matter expert (SME) for specific aPSL solutions, presenting to internal and external clients.

• Represent the investment team at committees, providing comprehensive views on the philosophy and current strategies.

• Ensure investment suitability and work closely with the Investment Business Risk Teams.

• Build strong working relationships across the aPSL business, supporting Business Development Managers, MPS Operations, and the Adviser Account Manager community.

• Actively promote aPSL solutions to internal and third-party clients.

About the Candidate

The ideal candidate will possess the following:

• Demonstrable experience in investment management, fund analysis, and research.

• Ability to conceptualise and blend funds into solutions that meet a range of mandates.

• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with experience engaging stakeholders across various levels.

• Collaborative and team-oriented mindset, thriving in a flat management structure.

• Strong organisational and project management skills, with the ability to lead and deliver key initiatives.

• Deep understanding of investment suitability and risk management processes.

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 abrdn 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.