Organisational Development and Learning Lead 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.

About the Role: We believe learning has the power to unlock potential — for our people, our clients, and our future. This role sits at the heart of that belief. It shapes how we build capability across our business and how we create a thriving, adaptive organisation equipped for the opportunities ahead. This is a unique opportunity to shape a different future with a business right at the heart of its transformation.

As our Organisational Development & Learning Lead, you will play a strategic role in strengthening our organisational performance globally. You will create the learning culture, capability frameworks and development experiences that empower our people to grow with confidence and deliver exceptional outcomes for our clients. The role sits in our small but brilliant Talent team, reporting to the Head of Talent.

You will uncover the skills and capabilities the business needs next, and design a forward‐looking learning strategy that enables our leaders and teams across all of our locations & businesses to perform at their best. Working in close partnership with Business Partnering teams and senior stakeholders, you will bring clarity, insight and practical solutions that support our shift to a skills‐based, data‐informed, outcomes‐driven development model. This role will ensure our business leaders understand and advocate for your vision.

This is a role for someone who is energised by possibility, committed to impact, and passionate about helping people thrive. To be successful in the role you will enjoy building impactful internal and external networks and creatively leverage them to support you to deliver.

Key Responsibilities:

• Shape and deliver a modern skills‐based learning strategy that reflects our business priorities, emerging capabilities and long‐term talent ambitions.
• Lead the full design and delivery of learning programmes, evolving from standalone courses to blended, practical and outcomes‐focused development that strengthens performance across the organisation.
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, HRBPs and business units — understanding priorities, diagnosing needs and co‐creating clear development roadmaps.
• Use consulting expertise, data insight and evidence‐based practice to influence decisions, challenge constructively, and deliver interventions that make a meaningful difference.
• Diagnose capability and organisational health, using workforce insights to lead development in areas such as team effectiveness, change leadership and behavioural frameworks.
• Build strong internal and external networks, bringing world‐class thinking, innovation and fresh perspectives into Aberdeen.
• Oversee learning operations, systems and 3rd party vendor partnerships, ensuring we deliver learning experiences that are high‐quality, accessible and aligned to our strategy.
• Partner on learning systems integration (e.g., Cornerstone, Workday) to create a seamless learning experience and unlock meaningful insights.
• Establish robust measurement frameworks that track learning impact, behavioural change and return on investment — ensuring we bring clarity and confidence to our decisions.

About the Candidate:

• Deep experience in organisational development, learning strategy and enterprise‐level capability building.
• Experience of working in close partnership with Business Partnering teams and C‐suite stakeholders, to bring clarity, insight and practical solutions that support our shift to a skills‐based, data‐informed, outcomes‐driven development model.
• Ability to uncover the skills and capabilities the business needs next, and design a forward‐looking learning strategy that enables our leaders and teams across all of our locations & businesses to perform at their best.
• Expertise in digital, blended and applied learning approaches.

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.