Job Description
About abrdn
At abrdn, our purpose is to enable our clients to be better investors.
Clients worldwide trust us to find future-fit investment opportunities to deliver the outcomes they want. Our technology and insight help empower them to make better decisions, while the powerful partnerships we build help to enhance the expertise that we offer. And by enabling clients to invest responsibly, it helps us to build a better world.
About the Internship Programme
The opportunity to join us as an intern is one that is unique, challenging and rewarding. We are currently looking for world-class talent to join our summer internship programme running from June – August 2023 in our Edinburgh or offices within our Brand, Marketing & Corporate Affairs (BMCA) business.
Brand, Marketing and Corporate Affairs is the key communicator across all of abrdn’s stakeholder groups. We combine reputation management, relationship building and targeted activity to support the commercial delivery for our Investments, Adviser and Personal growth vectors. Following the recent completion of our global rebrand, we are now focused on building and leveraging the power of one united voice under our single brand.
Brand: Who we are and what we stand for, focussed on raising awareness and building consideration amongst clients, customers and prospects.
Marketing: The champion of our clients and customers across our three growth vectors, focussed on using client insight to inform acquisition and multi-channel engagement strategies aligned to vector trading plans.
Corporate Affairs: The voice of our colleagues and our brand, focussed on influencing and engaging a variety of stakeholders including media, commentators and policymakers.
The function has an extremely broad scope, which enables us to offer experience to interns across a variety of different teams and disciplines, including:
Brand strategy and activation- Vector marketing – Investments, Adviser or Personal
- Central marketing disciplines – Digital or Content
- Events
- PR and media
- Corporate Communications
- Public Affairs
- Sustainability
- Colleague Communications
From day one, you’ll contribute to our ambitions whilst developing your skills and knowledge. Over the 10 week summer placement you will be given real work with tangible outputs within the BMCA business, allowing you to gain exposure to real investment and business situations, with real responsibility.
Regardless of which team you join within the BMCA business you will gain a depth of experience; getting the opportunity to work with seasoned professionals across our business and engage in development activities with your peers on the internship programme. You will be based with the same team throughout the placement.
During the 10 week internship programme you will build knowledge within the department you are in as well as having the opportunity to build a network with other interns and wider colleagues.
As well as on the job learning, you will have access to a wide range of e-learning courses and complete a structured development programme over 10 weeks that includes training, networking and gaining exposure to senior stakeholders across the business.
On completion of your summer internship you will be considered for a position on our 24-month rotational graduate programme starting in September 2024 within the BMCA business. This programme gives graduates the chance to start their career in a highly supportive team environment, whilst gaining skills, experience along with support through further qualifications.
What Our Graduate Programme Offers
Our graduate development programmes provides you with the opportunity to rotate around the business for six month placements giving you exposure to the wider business and the option to complete one rotation outside of your base location.
To support our graduates to get going quickly we provide an extensive induction giving you access to hear from senior professionals across the company, complete soft and technical skills training courses and get to know your cohort of graduates.
Further to formal structured development programme and rotational opportunities, as a graduate you will be supported to work towards a recognised industry qualification.
About You
We are looking for peunultimate, final or recent graduates, from a variety of degree disciplines, who can demonstrate the following capabilities:
- Performance driven;
- Customer & client focused;
- Collaboration & Influence;
- Strategic thinking;
- Futurist mindset;
- Inclusive & empowering leadership.
Application Process
At the online application stage of the recruitment process please let us know if you are looking to be considered for the 2023 summer internship or 2023 graduate programme. To be considered for the 2023 graduate programme you must be a final year or a recent graduate.
**PLEASE NOTE THIS ROLE CLOSES ON 12AM ON TUESDAY 18th MARCH**
Our Inclusive Culture
We have a long-term commitment to building inclusive work environments; we value diversity in our workforce and welcome enquiries from everyone. You can find out more about our inclusive culture
here.
Please contact us (entrylevel.recruitment@abrdn.com) if you require reasonable accommodation to be made to any stage of the recruitment process. Our Early Careers team will be pleased to discuss your needs and ensure that these are accommodated.
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, including 40 days annual leave, a 16% employer pension contribution, private healthcare and a range of flexible benefits including gym discounts, season ticket loans and access to an employee discount site amongst many others. You can read more about our benefits
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.
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.