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 we can attract and retain the industry’s best talent.
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.
Company Overview
- Interactive Investor – the UK’s second largest direct‑to‑consumer investment platform, enabling individuals to plan, save, and invest in the way that works for them.
- Adviser business – provides financial planning solutions and technology for UK financial advisers, enabling them to create value for their customers.
- Investments business – a specialist asset manager focusing on areas where we have both strength and scale to capitalise on the key themes shaping the market.
About the Role
The Delivery Lead is responsible for orchestrating and enabling the successful delivery of complex technical change across one or more agile squads, ensuring alignment with business priorities, governance standards, and organisational outcomes. The role provides coordination, governance, and integration across teams while preserving agile ways of working.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and manage change initiatives across business areas and projects in a delivery lead capacity, utilising core PM and BA skills.
- Drive delivery outcomes from initiation to completion without reliance on a separate Project Manager.
- Shape and prioritise work in partnership with stakeholders and Product Owners.
- Develop and maintain integrated delivery plans, including dependencies and milestones.
- Coordinate cross‑squad activity and manage delivery interdependencies.
- Partner with stakeholders to embed change into business processes and operations.
- Manage risks, issues and quality across all initiatives (RAID).
- Governance and reporting to leadership and governance forums.
- Stakeholder management, alignment and coordination.
- Cross‑squad dependency and risk management.
- Support agile methodologies and adapt frameworks to project needs.
- Enable agile delivery alongside Scrum Masters and Product Owners.
- Plan and execute readiness activities.
- Track integrated delivery plans and milestones.
- Elicit and document business requirements and process improvements.
- Ensure requirements are clearly defined and owned.
- Work with BAs / SMEs to shape and validate requirements.
- Lead and facilitate meetings and workshops, producing clear documentation such as Business Requirement Documents, user stories and acceptance criteria.
- Analyse complex and large‑scale business and technical projects, including comprehensive reviews of end‑to‑end data and operating models.
- Support business users through UAT testing and secure sign‑off from key stakeholders.
Essential Requirements
- Demonstrable experience initiating, planning and delivering formal projects, ideally with budgets up to £5m.
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in a delivery lead or project management role in Financial Services.
- Minimum 2 years’ delivery experience in Corporate projects – Risk, Legal, HR, Audit where the candidate owned and delivered end‑to‑end projects.
- Successfully delivered complex change projects requiring changes to Corporate systems, ideally finance systems (e.g. Oracle, Workday, Service Now).
- Accreditation (e.g., PRINCE2, PMP, Agile PM).
- Practical knowledge of agile methodologies and tools.
- Strong conflict resolution and negotiation skills.
- Extensive experience in facilitating meetings and workshops.
- Expertise in eliciting, analysing, validating requirements and building partnerships with business and technology teams.
- Demonstrated strong application and solution knowledge.
- Proven ability to gather and validate detailed business requirements and lead process improvements.
- Experience coordinating stakeholders, managing risks, and delivering projects using agile and hybrid methodologies.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills to engage leadership, teams and third‑party suppliers effectively.
- Commitment to continuous professional development, coaching and fostering an inclusive team environment.
Additional Responsibilities
- Strong stakeholder management and effective communication skills.
- Knowledge of Agile practices.
- Ability to proactively identify opportunities for improvements and achieving efficiencies.
- Ability to manage competing demands and work across multiple projects.
- Strong organisational skills, with an ability for problem solving.
- Experience in leading and supporting more junior colleagues.
Benefits
- 40 days’ annual leave.
- 16% employer pension contribution.
- Discretionary performance‑based bonus (where applicable).
- Private healthcare.
- Flexible benefits – including gym discounts, season ticket loans and access to an employee discount portal.
Inclusion and Equality
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 during your application process. If you need assistance or an adjustment due to a disability please let us know as part of your application and we will assist.
