EMEA Distribution Capabilities Lead

Columbia Threadneedle Investments; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Columbia Threadneedle Investments seeks a senior technology/lead role to drive business-facing initiatives across EMEA, translating business needs into effective CRM, data, digital and AI-enabled workflows. You will collaborate with product, engineering, risk and compliance to deliver production-ready solutions while ensuring governance and adoption.

The role emphasizes cross-functional leadership, stakeholder management and clear communication with senior leaders in a regulated financial

Qualifications

• Substantial experience leading business facing technology, product or transformation work in asset management or wealth management.
• Strong understanding of institutional or intermediary distribution, including CRM, sales processes, client engagement and the needs of relationship teams.
• Experience shaping roadmaps, prioritizing competing demands and taking cross functional initiatives from discovery through adoption and measurable outcomes.
• Ability to work credibly with senior business leaders and technical teams, communicate complex choices clearly and influence without relying on direct authority.
• Sound judgement in handling client data, regulatory considerations and operational risk.

Responsibilities

• Build trusted relationships with EMEA Distribution leaders across institutional, intermediary and client facing teams; understand where technology can improve client outcomes and colleague productivity.
• Partner with the business to define the EMEA business facing capability roadmap: determine opportunities, assess value and feasibility, agree priorities and make tradeoffs clear to stakeholders.
• Translate business needs into clear outcomes, workflows and requirements for delivery partners across CRM, data, digital, AI and enterprise technology.
• Lead the technology side of initiatives that improve prospecting, relationship management, meeting preparation, client engagement, sales insights and service workflows.
• Partner with product, engineering, architecture, data, risk and compliance teams to bring solutions into production with appropriate controls for client information and AI use.
• Support adoption through process design, communication, training and feedback; measure usage and business results and refine capabilities after launch.
• Identify opportunities to reuse global capabilities across EMEA markets and bring regional requirements into global planning.
• Provide clear updates on priorities, dependencies, delivery progress and realized benefits to senior Distribution and Technology stakeholders.

Skills

Asset management

Wealth management

CRM

Sales processes

Relationship management

Roadmap shaping

Cross-functional leadership

Communication

Influence without authority

Regulatory & risk awareness

Operational risk

Tools

Salesforce

Job description

Columbia Threadneedle Investments seeks a senior technology/lead role to drive business-facing initiatives across EMEA, translating business needs into effective CRM, data, digital and AI-enabled workflows. You will collaborate with product, engineering, risk and compliance to deliver production-ready solutions while ensuring governance and adoption.

The role emphasizes cross-functional leadership, stakeholder management and clear communication with senior leaders in a regulated financial