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 more ways for money to make an impact. By focusing on delivering sustainable outcomes, we aim to build a better world while helping clients achieve their financial goals.
We are structured around three core businesses: Investments, Adviser, and ii, allowing us to respond to the changing needs of our clients. By diversifying the group, we are positioning ourselves for growth in a rapidly evolving investment landscape.
About the Department
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 abrdn’s Adviser business.
About the Role
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.
Key Responsibilities
1. Lead overall programme delivery, including constituent projects, work-streams, and releases, ensuring adherence to time, budget, and scope.
2. Champion programme and project management disciplines, including planning, resourcing, scheduling, monitoring, reporting, and managing risks, issues, and dependencies.
3. Develop an effective programme organisation structure with clear roles and responsibilities, managing day-to-day activities of assignees.
4. Oversee programme budget and expenditure management.
5. Ensure quality delivery outcomes for each project/release, ensuring all relevant standards are met.
6. Report and present programme status to Steering Group, senior management, and stakeholders.
7. Drive high performance within the Programme & Project Management team by mentoring and motivating Project Managers.
8. Foster a professional, collegiate workplace, engaging with colleagues to create a positive working environment.
About the Candidate
The ideal candidate will possess the following:
Essential Skills and Experience
1. Proven leadership experience with a strong blend of Business and IT delivery.
2. Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with experience influencing senior sponsors, business leaders, and steering group meetings.
3. Extensive experience managing third-party deliveries in complex environments.
4. Demonstrable experience with platform change delivery.
5. Prior experience with the FNZ platform.
6. Industry experience in Financial Services/Asset Management/Banking/Investment preferred.
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.
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