Aberdeen Standard Investments
Business Development Summer Placement
6 days agoWhat's your preference?
Job Description
- Req#: R0072844
Reach out, pitch ideas, and build win-win partnerships, craft and run crossover collabs - e.g., they promote Finimize in their newsletter, we promote them in ours
Work alongside the marketing team to create engaging social media posts.
Think like a marketer: where do future Finimizers hang out? How can we show up there in a fresh, useful way? This is a hands-on role where you’ll learn how partnerships get done in the real world. You’ll get support, feedback, and loads of experience.
You’re interested in investing, startups, media or marketing.
You like coming up with creative ideas — and actually making them happen.
You’re organised, proactive, and not afraid to try things out.
We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet all of the requirements.
Job Description
Finimize empowers retail investors by equipping them with information to make their own informed investment decisions, without any jargon, in less than 15 minutes a day. Finimize has over one million subscribers to its daily newsletter, and they’ve built a passionate global community around making investing accessible and digestible to clients.
At Aberdeen, we’re futurists, enabling our clients to be better investors. So it’s great to be working with Finimize, who share this vision of empowering investors through information.
About the role
You’ll work directly with our Business Development and marketing teams and get exposure to how a modern media and investing business operates. You’ll be part of a team that’s scaling fast and making a real impact. In addition, you’ll set yourself up for future roles in sales, marketing, partnerships, or community.
Responsibilities:
What we are looking for:
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer. Therefore, 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 and 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.
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.
About the company
Aberdeen Asset Management was an international investment management group, managing assets for both institutions and private investors from offices around the world.