Solutions Strategist

About Schroders
We're a global investment manager. We help institutions, intermediaries and individuals around the world invest money to meet their goals, fulfil their ambitions, and prepare for the future.

We have around 6,000 people on six continents. And we've been around for over 200 years, but keep adapting as society and technology changes. What doesn't change is our commitment to helping our clients, and society, prosper.

Schroders Solutions is a £235 billion global capability with employees in the UK, US, Singapore and Germany. Our dedicated solutions experts provide investment and advisory services to public and corporate pension schemes, official institutions, insurance companies, individual investors, intermediaries and wealth providers worldwide.
 
Schroders Solutions aims to be the provider of choice for pension schemes, offering an end-to-end solution through to buy-out. Working in partnership with our clients, Schroders Solutions delivers a consultative and structured approach to foster long-term relationships, with no changes to client strategy leads, contracts or mandates.
 
We have the commitment, reach and resource to help investors of all sizes, across client channels, to address the challenges of delivering desired investment and sustainable outcomes.

The base
We moved into our new HQ in the City of London in 2018. We're close to our clients, in the heart of the UK's financial centre. And we have everything we need to work flexibly.

The team
The Schroders Solutions division currently looks after over £200bn in assets across DB, DC and Insurance clients, predominantly based in the UK. You'll be working in the UK Client Solutions team. We are responsible for the design and delivery of tailored investment strategies for our clients. We lead engagements with a range of pension scheme clients, bringing deep investment knowledge and investment strategy insights to our client relationships. We come from a variety of backgrounds including pensions, investment and actuarial consulting, solutions and asset management.

What you'll do
•    Senior client facing role, leading the Solutions strategic relationship with a portfolio of large institutional clients, primarily UK Defined Benefit schemes. 
•    Leading client teams, management of key client projects working across UK Client Solutions and the wider Solutions business;
•    Encompassing the delivery of a wide range of investment services, from designing investment strategy and developing solutions in response to changing market conditions and
•    Developing content and supporting the creation of new initiatives and propositions to bring to market across the UK pensions landscape

The knowledge, experience and qualifications you need
•    Experienced professional with a background in investment consulting and leading large and complex client relationships;
•    Great communication and team working skills and a collaborative attitude;
•    The ability to work co-operatively with a range of groups and deliver agreed projects on time in line with client expectations and 
•    Some experience of pitching and winning new business and with an appetite to do more
•    A sound working knowledge of UK pension schemes, the investment challenges they face, and the regulatory environment in which they operate.

The knowledge, experience and qualifications that will help
•    Extensive experience within a solutions, asset management or investment consulting business;
•    Experience working with pension schemes or other institutional investor types and
•    Attained a professional qualification such as CFA or actuarial

What you'll be like
•    Genuine interest for investments and a desire to problem solve;
•    Self-motivated and enthusiastic;
•    Flexible, highly curious and willing to learn;
•    Great at working with other people, sharing and communicating decisions;
•    A critical thinker who's able to look at things from different angles;
•    Able to work under pressure, on several priorities at once, and with tight deadlines and
•    Keen to improve what we do for our clients and how we do it.

We recognise potential, whoever you are
Our purpose is to provide excellent investment performance to clients through active management. Diversity of thought, facilitated by an inclusive culture, will allow us to make better decisions and better achieve our purpose. This is why inclusion and diversity are a strategic priority for us and why we are an equal opportunities employer. You are welcome here, regardless of your age, disability, gender identity, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, socio-economic background, or any other protected characteristic.