Aberdeen
Agile Project Manager
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About the Company
At Aberdeen, our ambition is to be the UK’s leading Wealth & Investments group.
Strengthening talent and culture is one of our strategic priorities. We strive to make Aberdeen a great place to work so that we can attract and retain the industry’s best talent.
Our people put our stakeholders at the heart of everything they do by helping us to make a positive difference to the lives of our clients, customers, colleagues, shareholders, and society.
We are focused on growing our direct and advised wealth platforms and repositioning our specialist asset management business to meet client demand. We are committed to providing excellent client service, supported by leading technology and talent.
Aberdeen Comprises Three Businesses, Interactive Investor (ii), Investments, and Adviser, Each Of Which Focuses On Meeting And Adapting To Our Clients’ Evolving Needs
- Interactive Investor, the UK’s second-largest direct-to-consumer investment platform, enables individuals in the UK to plan, save, and invest in the way that works for them.
- Our Adviser business provides financial planning solutions and technology for UK financial advisers, enabling them to create value for their customers.
- Our Investments business is a specialist asset manager that focuses on areas where we have both strength and scale to capitalise on the key themes shaping the market, through either public markets or alternative asset classes.
About The Role
We have an exciting and rewarding opportunity for an early career agile project manager to make a tangible impact on investment decision-making capabilities and shape the future of evolving ways to deliver technology change.
As part of an agile, cross-functional team, you will help to plan, coordinate, and facilitate agile delivery of small to medium scale projects that impact across business areas.
About The Candidate
We are looking for someone who thrives in an Agile environment, is self-motivated, and embraces continuous improvement. You should be comfortable working in a regulated environment, balancing innovation with compliance, and be curious about how emerging technologies - including AI - can be applied to solve real-world challenges in investment management.
The successful candidate is expected to have a mix of project management experience and some exposure to working in an Agile environment. Your ability to translate business requirements into a focused and realistic delivery plan will be essential to your success.
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While your primary focus will be on facilitating and enabling agile teams and taking on project management responsibilities, you will also have opportunities to work across a broader technology landscape and collaborate with engineers from other disciplines to evolve how technology solutions are delivered at Aberdeen. You will be encouraged to explore new tools and approaches, and contribute to our evolving ways of working.
Key Responsibilities
- Managing project plans, timelines, budgets, risks, and dependencies.
- Enabling Agile teams and facilitating core ceremonies such as sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives.
- Applies focused technical expertise to key milestones or deliverables, with understanding of policies and procedures. Evidence strong performance in their delivery and behaviours and may assume full responsibility for a process or project.
- Coordinating across technical and business teams to ensure successful project delivery.
- Driving adoption of Agile practices and project management tools.
- Maintaining stakeholder communication and reporting on project progress.
Essential Skills & Experience
- Experience: Good exposure to project management, ideally in Agile environments.
- Certifications: PMI-ACP, Scrum Master, or equivalent Agile certifications are an advantage.
- Technical Knowledge: Familiarity with project management and Agile software (ADO, ServiceNow).
- Soft Skills: Effective communication, adaptability, problem-solving, conflict resolution, and emotional intelligence.
- Interest in Asset Management or Finance Technology
Other Desirable Skills & Experience
- Familiarity with Microsoft tooling, such M365 applications.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer. If you have a disability and would like to apply to one of our UK roles under the Disability Confident Scheme, please notify us by completing the relevant section in our candidate questionnaire. One of our team will reach out to support you through your application process.
Our Benefits
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When you join us, your reward will be one of the best around. This includes 40 days’ annual leave, a 16% employer pension contribution, a discretionary performance-based bonus (where applicable), 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 Business
Enabling our clients to be better investors drives everything we do. Our business is structured around three distinct areas – our vectors of growth – focused on our clients’ changing needs. You can find out more about what we do here.
An Inclusive Way of Working
Whatever way you like to work, if you have the talent and commitment to join our team, we’d like to hear from you.
At Aberdeen we’ve adopted a ‘blended working’ approach. This approach combines the benefits of face-to-face collaboration, coaching, and connecting in our offices with the flexibility of working from home. It enables colleagues to find a balance that works for their roles, their teams, our clients, and our business.
An inclusive culture, where diverse perspectives drive our actions, is at the core of who we are and what we do. If you need assistance with your application, or a reasonable adjustment to your interview arrangements – for example, because you are neurodivergent, or have a physical, sensory, cognitive, mental, visible, or invisible disability – please let us know and we’ll be happy to help.
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.
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