Programme Manager, Aberdeen
+ Discretionary performance-based bonus for eligible roles
Savings & investment company
Open for applications
Savings & investment company
1001+ employees
Open for applications
+ Discretionary performance-based bonus for eligible roles
1001+ employees
Company mission
To enable its clients to be better investors.
Role
Who you are
- Proven leadership experience with a strong blend of Business and IT delivery
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with experience influencing senior sponsors, business leaders, and steering group meetings
- Extensive experience managing third-party deliveries in complex environments
- Demonstrable experience with platform change delivery
- Complex commercial tracking with structures covering Product Development, Migration and TSA elements of delivery
- Industry experience in Financial Services/Asset Management/Banking/Investment preferred
What the job involves
- Our Adviser business provides comprehensive financial planning solutions and technology for UK financial advisers. This includes our award-winning open-architecture platforms, Wrap and Elevate
- The Adviser Change team is at the forefront of our business transformation, supporting the development of these platforms as well as driving the broader change agenda for Aberdeen Adviser business
- As a Programme Manager within the Adviser Change team, you will lead a cross-functional team to sustain and radically transform our end-to-end Adviser business
- This is an exciting opportunity to drive the successful delivery of strategic projects that shape the future of our platform solutions
- You will be reporting to the Head of Delivery and will operate within a matrix-based delivery structure, coordinating horizontal delivery work-streams and vertical transition states
- Your role will be essential in ensuring the successful delivery of complex change programmes, on time, within scope, and on budget
- Lead overall programme delivery, including constituent projects, work-streams, and releases, ensuring adherence to time, budget, and scope
- Champion programme and project management disciplines, including planning, resourcing, scheduling, monitoring, reporting, and managing risks, issues, and dependencies
- Develop an effective programme organisation structure with clear roles and responsibilities, managing day-to-day activities of assignees
- Oversee programme budget and expenditure management
- Ensure quality delivery outcomes for each project/release, ensuring all relevant standards are met
- Report and present programme status to Steering Group, senior management, and stakeholders
- Drive high performance within the Programme & Project Management team by mentoring and motivating Project Managers
- Foster a professional, collegiate workplace, engaging with colleagues to create a positive working environment
Application process
- End Date: October 28, 2025
Our take
Aberdeen, formerly known as Standard Life Aberdeen and Abrdn, is a global investment company helping its clients to save and invest for their futures. It operates three businesses - Investments, Adviser and Personal - and has been operating since way back in 1825.
Nowadays, atop its investment and advice services, the company delivers two platforms for financial advisers. The first, Wrap, enables users to build and manage portfolios for each client. The second, Elevate, encompasses a suite of tools for advisers to save time and make sure their clients are informed.
Over the years, the company has continued to improve its offering, for example by making it simpler, more data-led and to require less admin. This suggests that Aberdeen is keen to keep pace with tech developments across the investment space and position itself as an innovator.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company benefits
- Salary sacrifice pension arrangement
- Private health insurance
- Life Assurance
- 40 days holiday if you work full time
- Dental insurance
- Health assessments
- Critical illness cover
- Will writing
- Power of attorney
- Financial Guidance and Advice
- Holiday buy
- Discounted gym memberships
- Cycle to work
- Interest free season ticket loan
- Electric car lease scheme
- Travel insurance
- Personal accident insurance
- Share Plans
- Give As You Earn (GAYE)
- Volunteering
- Long service awards
- Subscription to Interactive Investor
- Subscription to Finimize
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
- Supportive parental leave policies , delivered regionally (e.g. 26 weeks paid leave in UK for primary and secondary caregivers)
- Employee discount site
- Discounted parking
Company HQ
Edinburgh New Town, Edinburgh, UK
Leadership
Jason Windsor
(CEO)Previously CFO at Persimmon Homes, Group CFO at Aviva and was the Managing Director of Morgan Stanley.
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