Senior Solutions Director - Pensions in Edinburgh

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.

The UK Pension Strategy & Solutions team applies deep pensions and investment expertise to support Aberdeen’s purpose of enabling our clients to be better investors. The team partners closely with client relationship, investment and product specialists to design, deliver and enhance bespoke solutions for UK pension schemes. It is a collaborative, forward‐thinking environment where technical rigour, strategic insight and client focus come together to deliver high‐quality outcomes.

As a Senior Solutions Director, you will be a senior member of the UK Pension Strategy & Solutions team, helping to shape, deliver and evolve holistic investment solutions for pension schemes across the UK. Based in London or Edinburgh with blended working, you will play a visible role in the development of delegated investment propositions, client engagement and commercial opportunity development. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to growing an influential team, work on complex pensions challenges and invest in your tomorrow through meaningful impact and leadership.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and technical leadership in the development and delivery of holistic investment solutions for UK pension schemes, ensuring high‐quality outcomes.
• Support the oversight and evolution of an existing £4bn delegated investment management book, helping ensure portfolios remain fit for purpose and aligned to client objectives.
• Partner with client relationship teams to strengthen client service and engagement, offering clear, accessible technical guidance to senior and non‐technical audiences.
• Research, develop and propose new investment ideas, contributing to innovation across the delegated investment and pensions solutions landscape.
• Identify and shape commercial opportunities, supporting growth in assets under management and raising awareness of Aberdeen’s market propositions.

About the Candidate

• Strong pensions investment and actuarial (or similar) training, ideally with experience in delegated investment management, fiduciary management or OCIO.
• Ability to combine strategic and technical thinking with a commitment to delivering trust, integrity and excellence, demonstrating responsibility and accountability across all work.
• Confident communicator able to simplify complex concepts for varied audiences, influence stakeholders and build strong client relationships.
• Commercially minded with the ability to spot, evaluate and progress opportunities at both client and market level.
• Highly motivated, collaborative and comfortable working in a dynamic, evolving environment.

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.

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.

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, 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.