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:

Our vision for a better future starts with asking more of ourselves.  Every day we look for ways to go further for our clients and customers, to be a better and more inclusive employer, to strengthen our governance and to reduce our environmental impacts. The Corporate Sustainability team sits within the Brand, Corporate Affairs and Sustainability function.

About the role:

This is an exciting opportunity to work within our Corporate Sustainability team to drive forward our sustainability impact reporting and research activity.

As the Senior Manager, Sustainability Impact Reporting & Insights you will play a pivotal role in shaping how we report on our progress and impacts. You will be the champion of best practice, in an ever-changing landscape, with an ability to communicate and influence change with stakeholders at all levels.

This is an exciting opportunity to support the Global Head of Corporate Sustainability and become part of a dynamic and increasingly important aspect of our business.

Responsibilities:

• Leading delivery of our sustainability impact reporting approach.
• Analysis and insights into best practice on social and environmental impact reporting, with a close eye on changes in the macro environment for sustainability.
• Accountable for the provision of data and articulation of our priorities for relevant sections of the annual report and accounts.
• Drive our sustainability reporting strategy– owning strategic sustainability reports, and interact with finance team to support on regulatory reporting where needed.
• Engage with other parts of the business on how we manage our sustainability risks and opportunities as appropriate.
• Strategic review of indices and develop insight and data to inform approaches as well as oversight of individual input and responses.
• Drive best practice in line with changing landscape – building out the Group sustainability strategy and working with our businesses and functions in an advisory capacity as appropriate.
• Prepare management and board reports as appropriate.
• Produce creative communications to engage and educate stakeholders and enhance the reputation of abrdn.

Key requirements:

• Strong communication skills – verbal and written. Able to communicate with impact, ensuring complex information is articulated in a meaningful way to varied audiences.
• Project management skills an advantage - experience of successfully overseeing and managing change.
• Self-starter with proven ability to work under own initiative with minimal intervention and supervision.
• Experience of working with a variety of stakeholders, internally and externally.
• Experience delivering impactful sustainability reporting and communications an advantage.
• Knowledge of the changing regulatory landscape for non-financial reporting.
• Experience of sustainability indices, reporting and working with investor analysts an advantage.

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.