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
You'll be joining the Product Operations team within Aberdeen Adviser, a key enabler of our transition to a product operating model. The team works closely with both established and newly formed product and enabling teams to embed delivery methods that drive high performance across our product and technology operations.
About the Role
As a Method Lead, you will be responsible for facilitating teams and stakeholders in applying and adapting delivery methods that maximise value and align with strategic goals. Acting as a coach, subject matter expert, and enabler, you will support teams in shaping valuable opportunities, refining feasible solutions, delivering high-quality outputs, and capturing learnings for sustained performance improvement.
You will use data, observation, and team feedback to foster a culture of continuous improvement and help evolve our product operating model and delivery method.
Key Responsibilities Embed and adapt established delivery methods (e.g., Agile, Scrum, Lean, Kanban) to suit team and organisational contexts. Collaborate with stakeholders to align delivery efforts with strategic goals and measurable outcomes, translating objectives into actionable team plans. Facilitate teams in prioritising high-value work and delivering incremental value to customers and stakeholders. Enable teams to establish and track delivery performance metrics (e.g., lead time, throughput, quality) to identify improvement opportunities. Drive a culture of continuous improvement through retrospectives, planning sessions, and iterative optimisation. Coach teams to self-manage, take ownership of their processes, and deliver against agreed outcomes. Facilitate adaptive dependency management and foster collaboration across cross-functional teams in multi-team or scaled delivery environments. Partner with stakeholders to resolve delivery challenges, mitigate risks, and adapt to shifting priorities. Promote adoption of new practices or tools that enhance delivery effectiveness while addressing resistance to change.
About the Candidate
The ideal candidate will possess the following Proven expertise in applying and adapting delivery methods (e.g., Agile, Scrum, Lean, Kanban) across diverse team environments to drive measurable business outcomes. Strong facilitation and coaching skills, enabling teams to self-manage, improve performance, and sustain delivery over time. Experience partnering with stakeholders to define objectives, prioritise work, manage dependencies, and resolve delivery challenges. Proficiency in setting up, tracking, and interpreting delivery performance metrics (e.g., lead time, cycle time, throughput) to identify and act on improvement opportunities. Demonstrated success in fostering a culture of continuous improvement through retrospectives, planning sessions, and iterative optimisation. Excellent collaboration and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to balance competing priorities and influence change. Experience working in multi-team or cross-functional environments, managing interdependencies and promoting adaptive delivery practices.
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.
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. You can read more about our benefits here.
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.
An inclusive culture, where diverse perspectives drive our actions, is at the core of who we are and what we do. If you need assistance with your application, or a reasonable adjustment to your interview arrangements - for example, because you are neurodivergent, or have a physical, sensory, cognitive, mental, visible or invisible disability - please let us know and we'll be happy to help.
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.
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