INVESTMENT WRITER recruitment
The overall objective of the Investment Marketing Team is the creation of a world-class centre of excellence. This covers areas including e-commerce, design, events, research, strategic marketing and planning together with investment writing.
Specifically, the Investment Writing team is accountable for the development of investment communications to support consultants, advisors and clients across a wide range of media channels. The department supports the overall global marketing strategy and assists in promoting the company’s reputation as a premier global asset manager.
The successful candidate will be required to produce high-quality investment writing across a wide variety of areas, including thought leadership, marketing collateral and client reporting for all relevant asset classes and regions.
Core Responsibilities:
- Create and deliver thought leadership content for wholesale and institutional clients in all relevant markets.
- Deliver high-quality marketing collateral to populate a comprehensive literature across asset classes and regions.
- Produce and manage a pipeline of timely outputs to meet expanding business requirements.
- Use investment communications insight to support key campaigns/product launches.
- Be widely acknowledged as a centre of investment marketing excellence within the firm.
- Raise the bar with the articulation, capture and definition of the investment messages.
- Establish best practice in investment writing.
- Drive reputation of marketing within the business, developing relationships with key stakeholders.
- Source, write, edit and deliver commentary for client reports.
- Keep fully abreast of industry activity and regulatory/product changes.
Core Skills:
- Effective research and analytical skills.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- Solid project and time management skills.
- Problem-solving expertise and ability to overcome challenges.
- Energetic, enthusiastic and passionate personality.
- Ability to work independently, prioritise and develop ideas for investment content.
Core Requirements:
- Extensive copywriting ability including strong attention to detail.
- Understanding of global investment industry, markets and products
- Educated to degree level
- Significant experience within investment management/financial journalism industry.
- IMC, CFA, and other industry qualifications preferred.
- Desktop applications (e.g. Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and information/data systems (e.g.
- Reuters, Lipper, Factiva, Datastream)
Core-Asset Consulting offer specialist recruitment services to the Investment Banking, Financial Services, Secretarial Support, and Human Resources markets across Scotland.
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