Investment Communications Manager

Job title: 123110 Investment Communications Manager

Location: Edinburgh or London

Salary: £60,000 - £70,000

Hours: Full time

Working Pattern: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our above offices.

About this opportunity:

We have an exciting opportunity to join Scottish Widows as an Investment Communications Manager within our Chief Investments Office.

This role involves the creation of a variety of investment content. It relies on a good understanding of investment strategies and markets, our funds, key promotional messages, our Responsible Investment approach and emerging investment themes.

You'll deliver insightful, high-quality content to support the promotion of our range of investment products across the Group and help raise the profile of senior investment team members externally.

What you’ll be doing:

• Deliver investment-themed articles, blogs, video scripts, social media posts and presentation decks for our external audiences; investment content to support marketing campaigns; collateral to support propositional changes.
• Work with Propositions, Distribution and, where appropriate, external partners to develop investment content to support the ongoing promotion of our funds. Feed into projects delivering investment change activity as a communications representative.
• Translate complex investment material into simple, engaging copy for consumer audiences. Ensuring communications consider customer and business objectives, with due regard to risk management and timely delivery.
• Ensure clear processes are in place to take and prioritise input from partners, working as required with other teams in Investments to consider and co-ordinate response.
• Operate within a defined risk framework, ensuring materials meet customer needs and embracing the principles of TCF, Consumer Duty and Conduct Risk.
• Through reading, attending meetings and talking to SMEs in the Chief Investment Office team and at our external fund manager partners, keep up to date with market developments and our business strategy, and convert this knowledge into ideas and activities that support our distribution strategy.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

Like the modern Britain we serve, we’re evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We’re growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too!

What you’ll need:

• Background in investment writing, financial copy writing, financial journalism or financial marketing.
• Experience in UK financial services/asset management.
• You'll have knowledge of Adviser, Employer and Customer channels.
• You'll have engaging writing skills and ability to generate content ideas.

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.

We’re disability confident. So, if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance-related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares!
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping.
• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

If you’re excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We’d love to hear from you!