Job Description
Fixed Term Contract - End Date 30th September 2025
aberdeen plc is one of Europe’s largest investment companies, and we are built on a long-standing culture of caring about the future and making a positive impact. Together we invest for a better future. We do it to make a difference to the lives of our clients and customers, our employees, society, and our shareholders. Our business is structured around three distinct areas focused on our clients' changing needs.
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abrdn Investments – a leading investment management business looking after £368bn of assets for Institutional, Wholesale and Insurance clients
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abrdn Adviser – one of the UK’s largest providers of platform services to financial advisers with £75bn in assets across our Wrap and Elevate platforms
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interactive investor – the UK’s most trusted investment platform for individual investors with 430,000 customers who have invested almost £75bn with us
Our strategy is to build a vibrant and value-creating purpose-led organisation, with the current and future needs of our stakeholders at the heart of all we do.
About the role
The role of the External Communications team is to maximise every opportunity to build belief in our corporate story, purpose and strategy. The remit of the team includes corporate communications and content, corporate social media and website, and corporate events for all audiences, including clients, analysts, investors and colleagues. The team is responsible for the delivery of key financial calendar activity, including Financial Results, the Annual General Meeting and the Annual Report and also includes a busy Media Relations operation. Led by the External Communications Director, we are part of the Brand, Corporate Affairs and Sustainability function.
As a Corporate Communications Manager, you will be responsible for championing the corporate purpose and supporting the strategic business priorities of aberdeen. You will play a key role in the delivery of corporate communication projects including development of our Annual Report and Accounts and financial calendar activity; communications support for C-Suite stakeholders; development of corporate messaging frameworks and TOV writing principles; participation in communication workstreams for key commercial projects; and crisis management scenarios. You will also work closely with our Corporate Content team to develop relevant content for our 'owned' channels, including social media and the corporate website.
The key objective of this role is to ensure the corporate narrative is clear, consistent and effectively delivered across our corporate channels.
Key Responsibilities:
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Work as part of the wider External Communications team to ensure aberdeen’s purpose, performance and strategy is appropriately promoted and understood, across all audiences
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Successfully lead key corporate projects and forums to coordinate critical and complex communication requirements
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Lead on the creation of content in a variety of formats appropriate for corporate communication channels, including abrdn.com and corporate social media channels
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Provide direct communications support to C-suite stakeholders including script writing, briefing notes and other long and short-form content
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Produce and manage corporate communications content, including support for full year and half year results, Annual Report and Account production and Annual General Meeting key presentation deliverables
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Collaborate and co-operate with colleagues in Brand, Corporate Affairs and Sustainability and throughout the business to ensure effective co-ordination and promotion of activity across the business
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Identify opportunities to improve efficiency and coordination of key business messages across channels to ensure delivery of strong and consistent messages to all stakeholders
About the candidate
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Corporate communications experience - particularly in corporate reporting and script writing Business and industry aware, with strong global asset management and UK savings and wealth knowledge and experience an advantage
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Strong writing skills to draft highly effective and insightful corporate content
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Ability to build rapport, establish a network and maintain strong relationships at all levels of the business, including C-suite
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Comfortable challenging and discussing complex issues and able to clearly articulate the key messages in writing or verbally for all stakeholders
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Strong track-record of effective co-ordination of project delivery
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Demonstrable reputation management expertise
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Aware of listing and disclosure rules and experience managing confidential information
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, private healthcare and a range of flexible benefits – including gym discounts, season ticket loans and access to an employee discount portal. You can read more about our benefits here.
Our Inclusive Culture
We are committed to exploring the possibilities of working smarter. This means we’d like to hear from you, whatever way you like to work.
We have a long-term commitment to building inclusive workplaces; we value diversity in our workforce and welcome enquiries from everyone. If you need assistance or a reasonable adjustment due to a disability, please let us know as part of your application and we will assist.
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.
