Director, Strategy & Analytics (Global Client Group) in London

Within the Global Client Group (GCG), the Director-Strategy & Analytics will serve as a strategic thought partner to GCG and firm leadership, synthesizing firmwide flow trends, product performance, market dynamics, and revenue implications into clear, executive-ready insights. This role sits at the intersection of distribution, finance, and investor communications—translating complex business drivers into cohesive narratives that inform earnings messaging, strategic planning, and senior leadership decision-making. The Director will lead a small team responsible for delivering forward-looking analysis and actionable insights that shape how the firm articulates business performance internally and externally.

• Translate global sales flows, AUM shifts, product mix trends, and market context into clear, data-driven insights and narratives that inform:

• Quarterly earnings messaging
• Strategic business decisions
• Investor and analyst engagement
• Senior management discussions

• Strategic Analytics & Insights

• Analyze gross and net flows across channels, regions, and asset classes to identify key performance drivers.
• Evaluate AUM mix shifts and their implications for revenue, margin, and long-term growth.
• Synthesize internal performance data with external market and competitive context.
• Identify emerging trends and proactively flag risks and opportunities.

• Model fee revenue impacts across distribution channels, vehicles, and product types.
• Assess pricing, mix, and market-driven revenue sensitivities.
• Partner with Finance to align revenue forecasting assumptions with distribution trends.
• Support scenario modeling tied to strategic initiatives and market volatility.

• Partner closely with Investor Relations to develop earnings materials and supporting analytics.
• Build narrative frameworks explaining quarterly performance drivers.
• Anticipate investor and analyst questions and prepare supporting materials.
• Ensure consistency between underlying business performance and external messaging.

• Develop clear, concise presentations for senior management and executive committees.
• Translate complex analytics into digestible, decision-oriented insights.
• Serve as a strategic advisor to GCG leadership on performance positioning.

• Lead and develop a small team.
• Establish analytical standards, governance, and best practices.
• Foster a high-performance, insight-driven team culture.

• Wealth of experience in asset management, management consulting with exposure to asset management, strategic finance, or related roles.
• Strong understanding of public-company reporting cadence and earnings processes.
• Deep familiarity with asset management fee structures across vehicles and channels.
• Demonstrated ability to synthesize complex financial and operating data into executive-level narratives.
• Experience presenting to senior leadership or supporting C-suite decision-making.

• Strategic thinker with strong commercial acumen.
• Exceptional analytical and financial modeling skills.
• Clear and compelling communicator (written and verbal).
• Ability to operate in fast-paced, deadline-driven environments.
• High executive presence and stakeholder management capability.
• Strong cross-functional collaborator.

Building teams with diverse skills, backgrounds, and experiences has always been important to us. Cultivating an inclusive culture where employees feel safe to share their voices is not only beneficial for our people, but also drives innovation and enables us to deliver better client outcomes. We will provide you with tools, resources, and learning opportunities to help you excel in your career and personal life.

We want our employees to be at their best. By joining us, you will connect with a culture that focuses on employee well-being and provides multidimensional support for a positive and healthy lifestyle. We understand that benefits are at the core of employee well-being and may vary depending on individual needs.

Franklin Templeton is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and existing employees, and we evaluate qualified applicants without regard to ancestry, age, color, disability, genetic information, gender, gender identity, or gender expression, marital status, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, and any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law.

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When you become part of Franklin Templeton, you’ll join a company dedicated to progress. A company that doesn’t settle. One where we pursue our ambitions with energy and persistence. That’s why it’s so important that we empower and encourage the progress of our employees.

At Franklin Templeton, we embrace individual differences and value experience and perspectives brought by talent from around the world. And, although we are all different, we all have one thing in common – we are dedicated to what we do.

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