Delivery 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: 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 areas of accountability & outcomes for this role include:

• Leading and managing change initiatives across business areas and projects in a delivery lead capacity, utilising core PM and BA skills.
• Driving delivery outcomes from initiation to completion, without reliance on a separate Project Manager.
• Shaping and prioritising work in partnership with stakeholders and Product Owners.
• Developing and maintaining integrated delivery plans, including dependencies and milestones.
• Coordinating cross-squad activity and manage delivery interdependencies.
• Partnering with stakeholders to embed change into business processes and operations.
• RAID management - Managing risks, issues, and quality across all initiatives.
• Governance and reporting to leadership and governance forums.
• Stakeholder management, alignment and coordination.
• Cross-squad dependency and risk management.
• Supporting agile methodologies and adapting frameworks to project needs.
• Agile delivery enablement alongside Scrum Masters and Product Owners.
• Planning and execution readiness.
• Integrated delivery plans and milestone tracking.
• Elicit and document business requirements and process improvements, as defined by the business and/or project.
• 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, including 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 obtain sign-off from key stakeholders.

There are some essential requirements of the role. The role holder will have:

• 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.
• Demonstrate strong application and solution knowledge.
• Demonstrated expertise in business analysis and managing change initiatives within complex organisations.
• 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.

Additionally, the role holder will have:

• 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.

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.

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.