Strategy Manager

Invesco is one of the world's leading independent global investment firms, dedicated to rethinking possibilities for our clients by delivering distinctive investment management capabilities across a wide range of strategies.

Benefits

• Company provided healthcare
• Competitive annual leave allowance
• Flexible working options, including hybrid arrangements
• Generous pension provisions
• Income protection
• Health and wellness benefits
• Volunteering days
• Enhanced parental leave
• Life insurance

Key Responsibilities

• Own and lead end to end strategic projects from framing the commercial opportunity through market analysis, business case development and execution planning.
• Provide strategic recommendations to the Head of Distribution Strategy & Execution and the EMEA Distribution Management team, ensuring decisions are data driven and commercially grounded.
• Drive the development of EMEA Distribution strategic priorities, annual strategic plans and sub regional growth plans.
• Lead multidisciplinary project teams, ensuring clarity of scope, accountability, milestones and delivery outcomes.
• Act as a senior connector across Distribution, Product, Investments, Finance, Marketing and Operations - ensuring alignment, removing obstacles, enabling informed decision making.
• Facilitate strategic workshops, executive discussions and cross regional planning sessions.
• Oversee analysis of market dynamics, competitive landscape and client segment trends to inform distribution strategy, product positioning and market entry opportunities.
• Direct the development of robust business cases, scenario analyses and forecasting models to support investment decisions and organisational prioritisation.
• Translate complex findings into compelling, executive ready presentations and strategic narratives.
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders within EMEA Distribution.
• Mentor junior team members, setting expectations for analytical quality, project delivery discipline and stakeholder communication.
• Promote best practice project management, strategic thinking and commercial insight across the Distribution organisation.
• Ensure timely and high quality delivery of board level and executive presentations on strategy and business performance.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives across the Distribution organisation, identifying operational bottlenecks and shaping solutions.
• Lead key strategic workstreams that support growth, efficiency and organisational strengthening.

Qualifications & Experience

• Experience supporting or leading M&A activity (due diligence, deal execution or integration) is advantageous.
• Demonstrable experience leading cross functional strategic projects with senior level exposure (required).
• Proven experience in asset management strategy, distribution strategy or business management in a global/EMEA context (preferred).
• Strong understanding of the EMEA asset management distribution landscape and client segment trends (preferred).
• Advanced PowerPoint and Excel capability; familiarity with project management methodologies or tools (required).
• Strategic thinker who simplifies complexity and crafts compelling narratives.
• Strong leadership presence with excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Highly analytical, structured, detail oriented.
• Ability to operate autonomously, set direction, and take ownership of outcomes.
• Comfortable working at pace and managing multiple priorities simultaneously.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, particularly for senior/executive audiences.
• High emotional intelligence; adapts style to different stakeholders and cultural contexts.
• European language skills (Italian, Spanish or German) are beneficial.
• Degree or equivalent in a quantitative or analytical discipline is preferred but not essential.

Equal Opportunity & Legal

We are committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process for all candidates. Applicants who opt in to the Disability Confident Scheme and meet the role criteria will be offered an interview. The scheme guarantees an interview but does not automatically imply employment.