Corporate Change Manager

Job Description

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 are seeking a Corporate Change Manager to join our Corporate Change team, who manage projects that include: cross-company change projects; transformational initiatives; merger & acquisition transactions; integration, separation & TSAs; target operating model implementation and  regulatory compliance.

This position is responsible for working with business sponsors to deliver change initiatives in the form of both singular projects or workstreams that are part of a larger programme as well as collections of related projects / change activities. The role is focused on the successful delivery of the relevant change initiatives into the relevant business areas with a clear benefit realisation plan in place.

Key activities for this role include stakeholder management, shaping of change initiatives with Project Sponsors and Programme managers, effective planning, prioritising delivery, aligning and readying business for the change to achieve agreed goals and ensuring risks, issues and quality of delivery is managed. The role will be required to manage projects using agile, waterfall and hybrid approaches and is required to have a strong understanding of various methodologies and the ability to adapt and apply them as needed to ensure project success.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage smaller projects or workstreams less than £1million / covering a number of business areas and jurisdictions with the support of a programme manager.

• Partnership with sponsors to create Business Cases for the respective approval forums.

• Deliver one or more projects where intimate business knowledge is critical to success.

• Ensure compliance with the Aberdeen Change Framework.

• Manage project teams to ensure maximum value from all resources.

• Ensure robust project plans are in place with clear dependency mapping across all delivery partners and dependent projects.

• Coordinate with stakeholders to define project scope, objectives, and deliverables.

• Work closely with squads to create and maintain epics and features for project deliverables.

• Strong partnerships with Tribe Lead and Product Owners as well as Application ‘Tribe’ teams, to ensure work required is on backlogs, prioritised and tracked through to delivery.

• Ensure project budgets are within Financial Approvals, with forecasts remaining within tolerance or funds returned.

• Robust Risk & Issue management in place across all projects under remit with effective mitigations in place.

• Lead the analysis of end-to-end project delivery, from Define to Delivery. The role will also support the shaping of initial business ideas.

• Lead business requirements gathering, understanding/ validating scope of the project.

• Prepare detailed documentation and presentations for stakeholders.

• Work closely with the business teams to define / document and support delivery of operating model changes.

• Support change management activities such as test approach, runbook creation, operational readiness and other project change events.

• Support the design and implement operating models that enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of