Manager Product Research and Insights, EMEA

Manager Product Research and Insights, EMEA

Sector Research and Development Role Manager Contract Type Permanent Hours Full Time

Job Description

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.

We have an outstanding benefits package which includes:

• Company-provided healthcare
• A generous 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

Your Team:

Invesco's Product Research & Insights team across EMEA and APAC serves as a strategic partner to Product, Distribution, and Investment teams, delivering deep product, market, competitive, and asset flow intelligence. By identifying emerging client needs, industry trends, competitive opportunities, and gaps within the product landscape, the team generates actionable insights that strengthen product positioning, inform product strategy and prioritisation, enhance client engagement, and support the development of innovative growth opportunities across the region.

Your Role:

This role offers a unique opportunity to operate at the intersection of product strategy, distribution, and investments. You will play a key role in shaping Invesco's future active product agenda across EMEA, driving commercial outcomes for our existing range, and contributing to the delivery of the firm's long-term growth ambitions.

What you will be doing:

• Act as a subject-matter expert on Invesco's active public and private product suite, their competitive positioning, client demand trends, industry developments, across assigned asset classes and distribution markets, providing insights that inform strategic business decisions.
• Conduct in-depth product and competitor research to identify competitive advantages and develop differentiated value propositions for internal and external stakeholders.
• Partner closely with Product Development teams to evaluate Invesco's product shelf, identify strategic gaps, assess emerging investment opportunities, and support the ideation, prioritisation, structuring, and lifecycle management of innovative investment solutions.
• Collaborate with Distribution teams across the UK and assigned markets in EMEA to translate product and market intelligence into actionable insights that enhance client engagement, sales effectiveness, and commercial outcomes.
• Create and deliver compelling investment content & investment cases for our priority products that influence stakeholder decision-making and support commercial success.
• Contribute to client-driven product prioritisation and strategic planning processes by leveraging client demand signals, market intelligence, competitive analytics, and commercial opportunity assessments.
• Manage coverage of designated asset classes, products, and distribution markets while supporting the continued evolution of the Product Research & Insights service model.
• Act as an ambassador for the Product Research & Insights function, building strong stakeholder partnerships, fostering collaboration across Product, Investments, Distribution, and Marketing, and contributing to strategic decision-making through presentations, committees, and cross-functional initiatives.

What you will bring:

• Proven years of experience in asset management, preferably spanning product research, product strategy, product development, or product positioning and effective delivery to senior stakeholders and/or clients.
• Demonstrated commercial judgement, strong intellectual curiosity, and a high level of execution discipline, with a proven ability to influence outcomes, lead initiatives, and manage complex cross-functional stakeholder relationships.
• Experience shaping product strategy, product prioritisation, product innovation, or product lifecycle decisions is highly desirable.
• Deep understanding of the asset management industry, including public and private markets, investment strategies, distribution models, and trends shaping the future of investing.
• Strong understanding of the competitive landscape, client buying behaviours, consultant and gatekeeper frameworks, and the drivers of fund selection decisions.
• Knowledge of the UK market and broader EMEA investment ecosystem, including key industry developments and client demand trends.
• University degree, preferably in a discipline related to financial markets; a CFA designation or equivalent professional qualification is highly desirable.
• Full professional fluency in English. Additional European languages are advantageous.
• Advanced proficiency in research, market intelligence, and analytics platforms such as Morningstar Direct, eVestment, Broadridge, Preqin, PitchBook, Bloomberg, or similar tools.
• Strong ability to combine quantitative analysis and qualitative insights into clear, commercially relevant recommendations.
• Data science experience leveraging data analytics, automation, AI, or programming tools (e.g. Python, SQL, Power BI) to improve research capabilities and decision-making is increasingly valuable.
• Strategic thinker with the ability to connect product insights, market trends, client needs, competitive dynamics, and business objectives to identify actionable opportunities.
• Naturally curious and intellectually driven, with a passion for uncovering insights and challenging conventional thinking.
• Commercially minded with the confidence to influence decisions and challenge constructively at all levels of the organization.
• Entrepreneurial mindset, taking ownership of initiatives and proactively driving outcomes in a fast-paced and evolving environment.
• Exceptional communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to transform complex analysis into compelling narratives that inspire action.
• Collaborative and relationship-oriented, with the ability to build credibility and influence across geographies, functions, and cultures.

Disability Confident Scheme

Applicants who opt in to the Disability Confident Scheme and meet the 'minimum 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.

Our commitment to the community and environmental, social and governance investing:

We partner with charitable organisations globally to make an impact in the communities where we live and work. Our people are encouraged to support the charities they feel most passionate about. We are also committed to environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing. We serve our clients in this space as a trusted partner both on specific responsible investment product strategies as well as part of our commitment to deliver a superior investment experience.

We promote a working environment that welcomes everyone and creates inclusive teams, celebrates difference and encourages everyone to be themselves at work.