EMEA Distribution Strategy Lead in Henley on Thames

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Employer: Invesco EMEA

Location: Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

Salary: Competitive

Closing date: 12 Jun 2026

As one of the world's leading independent global investment firms, Invesco is dedicated to rethinking possibilities for our clients. By delivering the combined power of our distinctive investment management capabilities, we provide a wide range of investment strategies and vehicles to our clients around the world. If you're looking for challenging work, intelligent colleagues, and exposure across a global footprint, come explore your potential at Invesco.

Benefits

• Company-provided healthcare
• A competitive annual leave allowance
• Flexible working options, including hybrid working arrangements
• Generous pension provisions
• Income protection
• Health and wellness benefits
• Volunteering days
• Enhanced parental leave
• Life insurance

Key Responsibilities

• Own and lead end-to-end strategic projects – from framing the commercial opportunity, through market analysis, business case development, and execution planning.
• Provide strategic recommendations to the Head of Distribution Strategy & Execution and the EMEA Distribution Management team, ensuring decisions are data-driven and commercially grounded.
• Drive the development of EMEA Distribution strategic priorities, annual strategic plans, and sub-regional growth plans.
• Lead multidisciplinary project teams, ensuring clarity of scope, accountability, milestones, and delivery outcomes.
• Act as a senior connector across Distribution, Product, Investments, Finance, Marketing, and Operations – ensuring alignment, removing obstacles, and enabling informed decision-making.
• Facilitate strategic workshops, executive discussions, and cross-regional planning sessions.
• Oversee analysis of market dynamics, competitive landscape, and client segment trends to inform distribution strategy, product positioning, and market entry opportunities.
• Direct the development of robust business cases, scenario analyses, and forecasting models to support investment decisions and organisational prioritisation.
• Translate complex findings into compelling, executive-ready presentations and strategic narratives.
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders within EMEA Distribution.
• Mentor junior team members, setting expectations for analytical quality, project delivery discipline, and stakeholder communication.
• Promote best-practice project management, strategic thinking, and commercial insight across the Distribution organisation.
• Ensure timely and high-quality delivery of board-level and executive presentations on strategy and business performance.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives across the Distribution organisation, identifying operational bottlenecks and shaping solutions.
• Lead key strategic workstreams that support growth, efficiency, and organisational strengthening.

What you can bring

• Experience supporting or leading M&A activity (e.g. due diligence, deal execution, or integration) would be advantageous.
• Demonstrable experience leading cross-functional strategic projects with senior-level exposure required.
• Proven experience in asset management strategy, distribution strategy, or business management in a global/EMEA context preferred.
• Strong understanding of the EMEA asset management distribution landscape and client segment trends preferred.
• Advanced PowerPoint and Excel capability; familiarity with project management methodologies or tools required.
• Strategic thinker with ability to simplify complexity and craft compelling narratives.
• Strong leadership presence, with excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Highly analytical, structured, and detail-oriented.
• Able to operate autonomously, set direction, and take ownership of outcomes.
• Comfortable working at pace and managing multiple priorities simultaneously.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, particularly for senior/executive audiences.
• High emotional intelligence; adapts style to different stakeholders and cultural contexts.
• European language skills (Italian, Spanish, or German) beneficial.
• Degree or equivalent, quantitative or analytical discipline preferred but not essential.

Disability Confident Scheme

Applicants who opt in to the Disability Confident Scheme and meet the criteria for the role will be offered an interview. We are committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process for all candidates who make an application. By opting-in to this scheme, applicants will be disclosing that they have a disability solely for the purpose of the Disability Confident Scheme. The Disability Confident Scheme only guarantees an interview – it does not automatically mean that applicants interviewed will gain employment with Invesco at that time.

To apply through the Disability Confident Scheme, you'll need to firstly ensure you have applied for the role via our external careers page. Following this, you'll need to email us at emea-talentacquisition@invesco.com confirming your wish to opt-in, alongside your contact details and the title of the role you wish to apply for.

This position may fall in-scope of one or multiple regimes/directives.