Job Description

Role title: Product Strategy and Development Manager, Alternatives

Contract type: Permanent

Location: Edinburgh/ London

At abrdn we empower our clients to plan, save and invest for their futures.

Through the expertise, insight and innovation of our team, we aim to help clients create more ways for money to make an impact. We set our sights on giving them more confidence to achieve their goals, and more clarity about what they need next. And we focus on delivering outcomes that are more than just financial – by investing sustainably to build a better world.

About The Department

The Product department is responsible for ensuring abrdn has a client focused product offering across alternatives and public market asset classes. The alternatives product team ensures products are managed through the whole product life cycle with responsibility for strategy, development and ongoing management and governance. This includes both institutional and wholesale offerings across Real Estate, Private Credit, Infrastructure and Private Market solutions. Alternatives is a core strategic focus for abrdn and this role offers an excellent opportunity to join a growing team to deliver commercial success through clear asset class product strategies and product innovation aligned to client needs and corporate objectives.

About The Role

The Product Strategy and Development Manager (Alternatives) role is responsible for leading product strategy and development across the product range. The role holder will be comfortable leading a cross functional approach to strategy and development and will be directly responsible for ensuring clear asset class product strategies are in place and new products are designed to meet client needs. The individual and team work closely with the Client Group and Investment teams to bring insightful and strategic client input into product activity.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain an asset class product strategy
• Foster an innovative and collegiate environment that drives a strong innovative product pipeline aligned to client needs and corporate objectives.
• Work across a number of geographies and vehicles types to deliver solutions for clients in the appropriate legal structures.
• Support abrdn’s new vehicle strategy e.g. Tokenisation, ETFs, LTAF
• Champion commercial objectivity and prioritisation of opportunities
• Responsible for understanding the product shelf and engaging on range management opportunities
• Ensure all products and segregated/club deals are taken through the appropriate governance channels

About The Candidate

The successful candidate in this role should meet the following requirements:

• Substantial product experience in alternative asset classes and in developing and launching new propositions. Particular interest in candidates with Private Credit experience
• A strong understanding of fund structures and the regulatory requirements associated with alternative investment funds
• Robust project management and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Strong strategic thinking, organisational and communication skills are essential.
• Ability to think strategically and also focus on the delivery of key initiatives

To be successful in this role you will need (minimum experience/ requirements)

Moreover, we recognise that supplementary skills beyond the minimum criteria can greatly enhance your success in this position. These skills are:

• A team player – able to collaborate effectively with your colleagues, consistently putting the teams’ goals and interests ahead of personal ones and actively contributing to the wider teams shared objectives.
• Strong Organisational Skills and an acute attention to detail.
• Excellent time management skills – the ability to demonstrate exceptional time management skills by efficiently planning and prioritising tasks to meet deadlines.
• Self-Motivation – you exhibit a high level of self-motivation and can take the initiative to identify and tackle challenges proactively.
• You are able to take ownership of your work, ensuring that it aligns with organisational objectives and quality standards.

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, including 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 site amongst many others. You can read more about our benefits here.

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.