Corporate Communications Manager 7 Month FTC

At Aberdeen, our ambition is to be the UK’s leading Wealth & Investments group. We are committed to providing excellent client service, supported by leading technology and talent.

Aberdeen comprises three businesses: Interactive Investor, Adviser, and Investments. Each focuses on meeting and adapting to our clients' evolving needs.

• Interactive Investor – the UK’s second largest direct‑to‑consumer investment platform, enabling individuals in the UK to plan, save, and invest in the way that works for them.
• Adviser – provides financial planning solutions and technology for UK financial advisers.
• Investments – a specialist asset manager focusing on areas where we have both strength and scale to capitalise on the key themes shaping the market.

About The Role

You will be responsible for championing the corporate purpose and supporting the strategic business priorities of Aberdeen Group. You will play a key role in the delivery of corporate communication projects including the development of our Annual Report and Accounts and financial calendar activity; communications support for C‑Suite stakeholders; management of the Group’s social channels and website; participation in communication workstreams for key commercial projects; and crisis management scenarios.

The key objective of your role is to ensure the corporate narrative is clear, consistent and effectively delivered across our corporate channels. Your business expertise and industry knowledge will play a critical role in maintaining the credibility of the team to manage relationships and collaborate across the business.

Key Responsibilities

• Work as part of the wider External Communications team to ensure Aberdeen’s purpose and strategy is appropriately promoted and understood across all audiences.
• Successfully lead key corporate projects and forums to coordinate complex communication requirements.
• Lead on the creation of content in a variety of formats appropriate for corporate communication channels, including Aberdeenplc.com and corporate social media channels.
• Provide direct communications support to C‑suite stakeholders including script writing, briefing notes and other long and short‑form content.
• Produce and manage corporate communications content, supporting full year and half year results, Annual Report and Account production and Annual General Meeting key presentation deliverables.
• Collaborate and co‑operate with colleagues in Marketing, Corporate Affairs, Investor Relations and throughout the business to ensure effective coordination and promotion of activity across the business.
• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency and coordination of key business messages across channels, ensuring delivery of strong and consistent messages to all stakeholders.

About The Candidate

• Corporate communications experience, financial public relations or investor relations – particularly in corporate reporting and script writing.
• Strong writing skills to draft highly effective and insightful corporate content.
• Comfortable challenging and discussing complex issues and able to clearly articulate key messages in writing or verbally for all stakeholders.
• Strong track‑record of effective coordination of project delivery.
• Aware of listing and disclosure rules and experience managing confidential information.

Benefits

Benefits include 40 days’ annual leave, a 16% employer pension contribution, a discretionary performance‑based bonus where applicable, private healthcare and a range of flexible benefits such as gym discounts, season ticket loans and access to an employee discount portal.

Equal Opportunity

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. We are 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.