Business Manager

Job Description

At Aberdeen, our ambition is to be the UK’s leading Wealth & Investments group.

Strengthening talent and culture is one of our strategic priorities. We strive to make Aberdeen a great place to work so that we can attract and retain the industry’s best talent.

Our people put our stakeholders at the heart of everything they do by helping us to make a positive difference to the lives of our clients, customers, colleagues, shareholders and society.

We are focused on growing our direct and advised wealth platforms and repositioning our specialist asset management business to meet client demand. We are committed to providing excellent client service, supported by leading technology and talent.

Aberdeen comprises three businesses, interactive investor (ii), Investments and Adviser, each of which focuses on meeting and adapting to our clients’ evolving needs:

• Interactive investor, the UK’s second largest direct-to-consumer investment platform, enables individuals in the UK to plan, save and invest in the way that works for them.

• Our Adviser business provides financial planning solutions and technology for UK financial advisers, enabling them to create value for their customers.

• Our Investments business is a specialist asset manager that focuses on areas where we have both strength and scale to capitalise on the key themes shaping the market, through either public markets or alternative asset classes.

About the Role

• Act as a trusted partner to the CPTO.

• Support the translation of strategy into clear priorities, plans and actions.

• Support executive and governance forums with clear insight and materials.

• Ensure visibility of progress, risks and decisions.

• Lead the PMO and delivery governance.

• Provide a clear, consolidated view of all initiatives.

• Ensure strong planning, prioritisation, reporting and risk management.

• Drive delivery discipline and transparency.

• Oversee the Product & Technology budgets and performance

• Track actuals vs forecast vs budget and highlight risks and pressures.

• Ensure strong control of initiative spend through business cases and approvals.

• Link investment to outcomes, benefits and value delivered.

• Support prioritisation to ensure funding is focused on highest-value activity.

• Partner with Finance and leadership to improve cost control and efficiency.

• Maintain strong governance and decision-making processes.

• Ensure risks, issues and dependencies are well managed and escalated.

• Support alignment with regulatory and internal control expectations.

• Align strategy, capacity and delivery plans.

• Ensure priorities are clear and achievable.

• Challenge misalignment across scope, funding and timelines.

• Work across Product, Technology, Change, Finance and Risk.

• Support clear communication of priorities and progress.

• Act as a central coordination point for the function.

• Effective support to the CPTO and leadership team

• Strong PMO and portfolio governance

• Clear financial oversight and investment discipline

• Transparent reporting on delivery, risk and spend

• Alignment between strategy, investment and outcomes

• Clear visibility and delivery confidence

• Accurate and transparent financial reporting

• Improved cost control and investment effectiveness

• Delivery of measurable outcomes and benefits

• Strong stakeholder confidence and alignment

Essential Experience & Skills

• Experience in Business Management and/or PMO

• Strong financial and commercial awareness - budgets, forecasting, ROI, governance, reporting

• Must have a background in Product, Technology and/or Change environments, ideally in a financial services setting

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.

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 Aberdeen 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.