Global Share Plans Senior Manager

abrdn; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in investment is seeking a Global Share Plans Senior Manager in Edinburgh. The role focuses on leading employee share plans, ensuring compliance with legal standards, and managing the share plans team. Successful candidates will possess strong communication, project management, and data analytics skills, along with relevant experience in employee schemes.

Benefits

40 days’ leave

16% pension contribution

Private healthcare

Flexible benefits

Bonuses

Qualifications

• Strong communication skills and influencing ability.
• Knowledge of employee schemes, legal, tax, and operations.
• Proven project management and team leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead the implementation of employee share plans and deferred awards.
• Ensure share awards meet legal and regulatory standards.
• Manage relationships with plan administrators and suppliers.

Skills

Communication

Influencing

Data Analytics

Job description

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Global Share Plans Senior Manager, Edinburgh

Client: abrdn

Location: Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Job Category: Other

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Posted:

14.07.2025

Expiry Date:

28.08.2025

Job Description:

Aberdeen plc is one of Europe’s largest investment companies, built on a long-standing culture of caring about the future and making a positive impact. We invest to make a difference for our clients, employees, society, and shareholders. Our business focuses on three areas:

• Aberdeen Investments: managing £368bn for institutional, wholesale, and insurance clients
• Aberdeen Adviser: UK’s largest platform services provider for financial advisers with £75bn assets
• interactive investor: UK’s most trusted investment platform with 430,000 customers and nearly £75bn invested

Our strategy is to build a purpose-led organization prioritizing stakeholder needs.

About the role:

The Global Share Plans Senior Manager leads the implementation of the Shares & Deferred Awards agenda, managing operational delivery of employee share plans and deferred awards for Aberdeen.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure share awards meet legal and regulatory standards.
• Manage relationships with plan administrators and suppliers.
• Collaborate with internal teams like Finance, Treasury, Payroll, Legal, HR, and Company Secretariat.
• Oversee project activities, grants, vesting, reporting, and data requests.
• Lead and develop the share plans team.
• Ensure processes and governance support compliance and improvement.
• Benchmark and analyze market best practices.
• Coordinate with Global Mobility to manage globally mobile employees’ equity.

About the candidate:

• Strong communication skills and influencing ability.
• Knowledge of employee schemes, legal, tax, and operational aspects.
• Experience with global awards like nil-cost options, phantom awards, etc.
• Up-to-date regulatory knowledge across jurisdictions.
• Proven project management and team leadership skills.
• Results-oriented with strong data analytics skills.

We are a Disability Confident employer and support candidates with adjustments. We offer a supportive environment with benefits like 40 days’ leave, a 16% pension contribution, bonuses, private healthcare, and flexible benefits.

Our business:

We enable clients to be better investors, focusing on their evolving needs. Our inclusive, blended working approach combines office and remote work to support work-life balance.