Investment Trust Marketing Associate — Growth & Campaigns

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.

As Investment Trust Marketing Assistant, you will provide hands-on support across a broad range of marketing initiatives, contributing directly to the promotion of our investments trusts. This role is well suited to someone with early marketing experience, who enjoys working across multiple projects and channels. You will be relied upon for your strong attention to detail, proofing skills and ability to keep activity moving efficiently in a fast-paced environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support strategic marketing plans: Assisting with the execution of multi‐channel marketing campaigns designed to promote our investment trusts and build brand visibility.
• Content coordination: Liaising with fund managers, copywriters and internal stakeholders to help produce timely, accurate and engaging content for each trust.
• Website management: Maintaining and updating trust website, ensuring articles, trust updates, event information and regulatory content are current, accurate and compliant.
• Social media support: Drafting, scheduling and publishing social media and managing our YouTube channel posts to support thought leadership, fund promotion and corporate messaging.
• Campaign and newsletter support: Assisting with the production and distribution of newsletters, event invitations and campaign communications.
• Event coordination: Supporting the planning and delivery of webinars, presentations and conferences.
• Team administration: Providing organisational and administrative support to the Head of Investment Trust Promotion, Marketing Manager and Marketing Executive.
• Internal communications: Producing and circulating a regular internal marketing update to keep colleagues informed of recent activity and upcoming campaigns.

About the Candidate:

• Knowledge and experience of digital marketing.
• Experience supporting marketing campaigns across multiple channels.
• Experience within investment management or financial services (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.

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.