Associate Director, Distribution Data & Analytics, EMEA & LatAm Client Group in London

Why work for us? A career at Janus Henderson is more than a job, it’s about investing in a brighter future together. Our Mission at Janus Henderson is to help clients define and achieve superior financial outcomes through differentiated insights, disciplined investments, and world‑class service. We will do this by protecting and growing our core business, amplifying our strengths, and diversifying where we have the right. Our Values are key to driving our success, and are at the heart of everything we do:

• Clients Come First - Always
• Execution Supersedes Intention
• Together We Win
• Diversity Improves Results
• Truth Builds Trust

If our mission, values, and purpose align with your own, we would love to hear from you!

Responsibilities and Opportunity

• Help shape the future of commercial analytics and AI‑driven decision making across the EMEA & LatAm Client Group.
• Build the foundations of a modern sales intelligence capability by combining data engineering, analytics, automation, and AI to improve prioritisation, focus, and sales effectiveness.
• Design and engineer decision‑grade data products that move beyond dashboards into workflow‑embedded intelligence used directly by sales teams.
• Use Power BI as a core interface today, while progressively enabling AI‑assisted insights, automated decision support, and early‑stage agent‑based capabilities.
• Work closely with Sales, Strategy, and Technology to translate commercial problems into scalable data and AI solutions.
• Influence how analytics, data, and AI are applied across the business, with real scope to shape the long‑term trajectory of the team as it evolves from reporting to decision intelligence.
• Carry out other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Hybrid working and reasonable accommodations.
• Generous Holiday policies.
• Excellent Health and Wellbeing benefits including corporate membership to ClassPass.
• Paid volunteer time to step away from your desk and into the community.
• Support to grow through professional development courses, tuition/qualification reimbursement and more.
• Maternal/paternal leave benefits and family services.
• Complimentary subscription to Headspace – the mindfulness app.
• All employee events including networking opportunities and social activities.
• Lunch allowance for use within our subsidized onsite canteen.

Requirements

• Experience in asset management, with a strong understanding of distribution models, client hierarchies, and sales effectiveness.
• Strong SQL skills, with hands‑on experience working in cloud data platforms such as Snowflake and/or Databricks.
• Proven experience building analytics solutions using Power BI, with a strong focus on data modelling, semantic layers, scalable and well‑governed datasets, and performance‑aware design.
• Data engineering and analytics engineering experience, including designing end‑to‑end data pipelines and working across multiple source systems such as CRM, pipeline, flows, client, product, sales, and marketing data.
• Demonstrable experience delivering AI‑enabled or agent‑based workflows using tools such as Copilot Studio, conversational or agentic analytics, or AI‑assisted insight generation, summarisation, and decision support.
• Experience using the Microsoft ecosystem as a platform, including Power BI, Power Platform as an orchestration layer driving insight‑led workflows, and Azure‑based data and AI services.
• Exposure to Python for analytics, automation, or prototyping ML‑driven solutions.
• Comfortable working with ambiguity, shaping requirements, and delivering commercial impact rather than perfect technical outputs.

Nice‑to‑have Skills

• Experience with machine learning use cases such as forecasting, sales pipeline to flow modelling, or client and opportunity scoring.
• Familiarity with MLOps or productionising AI models, including monitoring, governance, or retraining considerations.
• Hands‑on experience embedding analytics or AI directly into sales workflows rather than delivering standalone reporting.
• Experience working with Azure AI services or similar enterprise AI platforms.
• Experience using Salesforce or other CRM systems as a primary analytics and sales intelligence input.
• Strong storytelling skills, with the ability to explain complex analytics or AI outputs in a way that supports confident, timely decision making by sales leadership.
• Microsoft certifications such as Azure Data Engineer, Azure AI Engineer, Power Platform, Fabric, or Applied AI credentials.
• Snowflake certifications such as SnowPro Core or Advanced.
• Relevant applied AI, machine learning, or analytics engineering certifications.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• No

Potential for Growth

• Mentoring.
• Leadership development programs.
• Regular training.
• Career development services.
• Continuing education courses.

You will be expected to understand the regulatory obligations of the firm and to abide by the regulated entity requirements and JHI policies applicable for your role. At Janus Henderson Investors we’re committed to an inclusive and supportive environment. We believe diversity improves results and we welcome applications from candidates from all backgrounds. Don’t worry if you don’t think you tick every box, we still want to hear from you! We understand everyone has different commitments and while we can’t accommodate every flexible working request we’re happy to be asked about work flexibility and our hybrid working environment. If you need any reasonable accommodations during our recruitment process, please get in touch and let us know.

Annual Bonus Opportunity: Position may be eligible to receive an annual discretionary bonus award from the profit pool. The profit pool is funded based on Company profits. Individual bonuses are determined based on Company, department, team, and individual performance.

Benefits: Janus Henderson is committed to offering a comprehensive total rewards package to eligible employees that includes competitive compensation, pension/retirement plans, and various health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits. To learn more about our offerings please visit the Why Join Us section on the career page here.

Janus Henderson Investors is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status. All applications are subject to background checks. Janus Henderson (including its subsidiaries) will not maintain existing or sponsor new industry registrations or licenses where not supported by an employee’s job functions (as determined by Janus Henderson at its sole discretion). You should be willing to adhere to the provisions of our Investment Advisory Code of Ethics related to personal securities activities and other disclosure and certification requirements, including past political contributions and political activities. Applicants’ past political contributions or activity may impact applicants’ eligibility for this position. You will be expected to understand the regulatory obligations of the firm, and to abide by the regulated entity requirements and JHI policies applicable for your role.