Product and Proposition Manager

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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 Aberdeen Adviser team develops platform, investment and advice propositions that help financial planning professionals deliver better outcomes for clients. Working across product, technology, investments, risk and distribution teams, the function supports Aberdeen’s growth strategy by creating intuitive adviser experiences and scalable solutions. The team combines market insight, customer understanding and commercial focus to enable our clients to be better investors. ABOUT THE ROLE We are looking for an experienced Product Manager to join our Adviser team in Edinburgh on a permanent basis at Level 4. This is a strategic role responsible for shaping and delivering platform product, investment and advice propositions that transform how financial planning professionals interact with our platform. You will lead proposition development from discovery through to launch, balancing innovation, customer needs, regulatory requirements and commercial outcomes. The role offers the opportunity to influence the Aberdeen Adviser vision and strategy while working with senior stakeholders across the business. Through this position, you can invest in your tomorrow by helping define the future of adviser experiences and customer outcomes. (Location: Edinburgh, Permanent) KEY RESPONSIBILITIES • Define and drive platform product and investment strategy, aligning innovation, usability and accessibility with business objectives . • Conduct market research, customer discovery and user testing to identify opportunities and improve adviser propositions. • Design and deliver new and enhanced adviser propositions from concept through to implementation and distribution. • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop impactful solutions that improve adviser engagement and customer outcomes. • Communicate proposition vision, progress and outcomes to senior stakeholders and influence strategic decision-making. • Monitor proposition performance, regulatory developments and market trends to continuously enhance offerings. ABOUT THE CANDIDATE Essential criteria: • Proven experience in proposition, product or platform roles within financial services. • Strong understanding of adviser platforms, pensions and investment solutions. DESIRABLE EXPEREINCE; • Experience developing customer-centric solutions using data, insight, user research and feedback. • Demonstrated ability to translate complex requirements into clear, deliverable propositions. • Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills across diverse business areas. • Strategic and commercial mindset with a focus on execution and measurable outcomes. 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.