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 Department

The Investments Campaigns, Sponsorship and Events Team are focused on building momentum for the Aberdeen Investments brand and to create consistency across our marketing touchpoints, as-well as activating our sponsorship opportunities and events in line with our overall brand and business objectives. The Sponsorship and Events part of the team is focused on strengthening our strategic event activation and delivery of sponsorship vehicles for target audiences.

About the Role

The role is to support the delivery of events and sponsorship vehicles in our key growth regions, in line with our overall brand, business and strategic growth objectives.

The role holder will support the planning and execution of high-impact events that strengthen client relationships, consistently promote the Aberdeen Investments brand, and support business development initiatives.

Key Responsibilities:

• Supporting the management and delivery of a wide range of in-person, hybrid and virtual events that support our growth ambitions across all channels, with a particular focus on our key markets in the UK, Europe and Asia Pacific.
• Delivering high quality events for our clients and internal stakeholders that are consistent with our brand and business objectives and ensure a premium event experience.
• Onboarding and developing new relationships with event suppliers in our key growth markets and working with key supporting agencies including promotional agencies, print suppliers, 3rd parties, venues and external vendors.
• Collaborate with a range of internal stakeholders to deliver events in-line with business goals.
• Support with managing events budgets, timelines and logistics, to ensure all elements of the event are delivered on time and within scope.
• Manage the invitation process, delegate lists, RSVP tracking and more through utilising event management technology platforms.
• Manage the compliance processes for our programme events to ensure all aspects of the event are compliant and within Aberdeen Investments policy.
• Supporting detailed post event evaluation, audience analysis, metrics and ROI.

About the Candidate:

• Events Management Expertise: Experience in supporting the planning, delivery and evaluation of in-person, virtual and hybrid events. Experience in financial services is beneficial, but not essential. 
• Sound understanding of how to use events technology platforms effectively: Experience using technology and marketing automation platforms to support with the delivery of events. Experience using the following tools would be beneficial: Cvent, Salesforce, Microsoft Office and Share Point.
• Client-facing skills: Ability to engage with institutional and wholesale investors appropriately and pleasantly.
• Stakeholder management: Ability to collaborate with internal and external stakeholders carefully, with confidence and an approachable manner.
• Project management: Ability to collate various workstreams and provide appropriate updates into the business, to ensure smooth delivery of events programmes.
• Creativity: Identify opportunities to use new and exciting initiatives to engage clients and bring events to life.
• Professional: strong problem-solving, written communication, verbal communication, and organisational skills with the ability to work independently and collaboratively.

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 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.

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.