Senior Investment Director - Private Market Solutions

CFA Institute; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial services organization in Edinburgh is seeking an experienced Investment Director to lead private market portfolios. The candidate should have a strong quantitative background and significant experience in asset management. This role involves managing diverse investments, developing processes, and collaborating with various teams. Excellent communication and analytical skills are critical. A competitive benefits package, including generous leave and pension contributions, is offered.

Benefits

40 days' annual leave

16% employer pension contribution

Discretionary performance-based bonus

Private healthcare

Gym discounts

Season ticket loans

Employee discount portal access

Qualifications

• Significant professional experience in private markets investment, asset management, investment banking, consulting, or similar.
• Private Markets direct/co-investment, transaction management and underwriting skills are desirable.
• Understanding and experience with portfolio construction, management, and risk principles.
• Hands-on experience with large-scale project implementation.

Responsibilities

• Manage private market portfolios, including asset allocation, risk monitoring, and cash flow modelling.
• Source, research, and execute investment ideas for the portfolios.
• Develop investment processes, portfolio management, and risk management techniques for private market investments.
• Represent the team with clients and other stakeholders.

Skills

Strong analytical and numerical skills

Excellent communication and presentation skills

Attention to detail and thoroughness

Ability to work effectively as part of a team

Education

Strong academic background in a quantitative and financial discipline

Professional qualification such as CFA, ACA, or equivalent

Job description

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 Department

The Private Market Solutions team designs, implements, and manages globally diversified solutions across private markets, including equity, credit, and real assets. Solutions take the form of semi‑liquid funds (QIAIF, LTAF) and outsourced CIO mandates.

About the Role

The Investment Director will report to the Head of Private Market Solutions and work closely with the immediate Private Market Solutions team, other private market teams within Aberdeen, and the broader Multi Asset desk.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage private market portfolios, including asset allocation, risk monitoring, and cash flow modelling.
• Source, research, and execute investment ideas for the portfolios.
• Develop investment processes, portfolio management, and risk management techniques for private market investments.
• Provide quantitative skills and conduct research into new areas of private markets portfolio management.
• Develop innovative products that meet future client needs, working closely with global product, sales, client teams and clients directly.
• Represent the team and its processes with clients, other Aberdeen stakeholders and to the industry.

About the Candidate

• Strong academic background in a quantitative and financial discipline.
• Professional qualification such as CFA, ACA, or equivalent is desirable.
• Cross border or international experience is desirable
• Significant professional experience in private markets investment, asset management, investment banking, consulting, or similar.
• Private Markets direct/co‑investment, transaction management and underwriting skills are desirable
• Understanding and experience with portfolio construction, management, and risk principles.
• Hands‑on experience with large‑scale project implementation.
• Strong analytical and numerical skills.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Attention to detail and thoroughness.
• Ability to work effectively as part of a team.

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. This includes 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 portal.

Our business

Enabling our clients to be better investors drives everything we do. Our business is structured around three distinct areas - our vectors of growth - focused on our clients' changing needs. You can find out more about what we do here.

An inclusive way of working

Whatever way you like to work, if you have the talent and commitment to join our team, we'd like to hear from you. At Aberdeen we've adopted a 'blended working' approach. This approach combines the benefits of face‑to‑face collaboration, coaching and connecting in our offices with the flexibility of working from home. It enables colleagues to find a balance that works for their roles, their teams, our clients and our business.

Inclusive Workplace Commitment

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'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.