Executive Remuneration Manager - 9 Month FTC

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Job Description
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 role:
This is a great opportunity to join our dynamic HR function as an Executive Remuneration Manager on a fixed-term basis. This position is pivotal to the Global Reward team, reporting directly to the Global Head of Reward. Supported by an Executive Remuneration Analyst, you will be responsible for managing Remuneration Committee and subsidiary committee matters and play a critical role in the development of remuneration policy and governance. As part of this role, you will have significant exposure to senior stakeholders across the business.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Developing the Directors’ Remuneration Policy, ensuring alignment with business strategy, regulatory and legal requirements and taking into account good governance practice and proxy guidance
• Leading the preparation of Remuneration Committee and subsidiary committee papers and planning
• Managing Annual General Meeting preparation and shareholder engagement for remuneration matters
• Supporting the review of committee terms of reference, group remuneration policy and share plan rules to ensure compliance with regulatory and legal requirements and reflect latest good practice
• Overseeing and supporting the compensation and contractual aspects of new hires, job changes and exits for the Executive population
• Staying actively aligned with regulatory and legal developments in the market and leading the communication to relevant senior stakeholders to ensure appropriate policy documentation updates occur

Skills & experience required:

• Proven experience of leading Remuneration Committee cycles and processes and developing remuneration policy
• Comfortable dealing with ambiguity and problem-solving complex issues
• Proactive and results orientated with the ability to manage multiple competing priorities
• Knowledge of legal and regulatory compliance requirements in Executive Remuneration
• Numerical and data analytics and insights expertise
• Stakeholder management, particularly with senior stakeholders at Executive and Board levels
• Excellent written communication skills

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
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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

• Developing the Directors’ Remuneration Policy, ensuring alignment with business strategy, regulatory and legal requirements and taking into account good governance practice and proxy guidance
• Leading the preparation of Remuneration Committee and subsidiary committee papers and planning
• Managing Annual General Meeting preparation and shareholder engagement for remuneration matters
• Supporting the review of committee terms of reference, group remuneration policy and share plan rules to ensure compliance with regulatory and legal requirements and reflect latest good practice
• Overseeing and supporting the compensation and contractual aspects of new hires, job changes and exits for the Executive population
• Staying actively aligned with regulatory and legal developments in the market and leading the communication to relevant senior stakeholders to ensure appropriate policy documentation updates occu