Jobs at Standard Life

Own and prioritise the product backlog for customer-facing digital platforms. Translate business and customer needs into user stories, collaborate with Agile delivery squads, support prioritisation and delivery, remove blockers, and improve digital journeys. The role requires strong stakeholder engagement across business, technology, and delivery teams, with a focus on measurable customer outcomes.

Build, maintain, enhance, and document annuity cashflow and pricing models for retirement and asset management analytics. Develop services and reporting tools using AWS, Python, Rust, Beacon, and Snowflake; contribute to modelling methodologies; monitor platform performance; resolve reliability issues; and support business applications including valuation, reinsurance, structuring, longevity analysis, and Solvency II capital management.

Support large employer clients in designing, implementing, configuring, testing, and enhancing their Lifelens workplace pension platforms. Act as the primary technical contact, assess change requests, gather and document requirements, manage platform builds, and coordinate with relationship managers, communications, implementation, pension administration, and client teams to deliver accurate solutions.

Support high-net-worth customers with pension and retirement enquiries, helping them make informed decisions and achieve their long-term goals. Build trusted relationships, manage customer journeys, resolve queries, explain information clearly, and deliver positive outcomes while balancing customer needs with regulatory responsibilities. Develop expertise in pension products, retirement solutions, and legislation, identify opportunities to add value, and contribute to customer experience and business growth.

Handle and resolve customer queries by telephone and email, making inbound and outbound contact while delivering accurate, tailored support. Build customer relationships, perform security checks, identify potential issues, and take appropriate corrective or escalation action. The role requires strong communication, attention to detail, multitasking, customer service skills, computer literacy, and willingness to learn new systems.

Leads organisation design and governance across the Group, shaping structures, operating models, accountabilities, spans and layers to support business strategy and workforce transformation. Partners with HR leaders, executives and transformation teams on major change, restructures, mergers, acquisitions and integrations. Develops governance frameworks and delivers organisational effectiveness improvements in complex environments.

Oversee and coordinate Data Subject Access Requests, ensuring they are identified, escalated, and completed within GDPR timeframes. Maintain regulatory compliance, apply appropriate processes and controls, manage stakeholder expectations, and support effective business responses without directly fulfilling requests. The role also requires prioritization, decision-making, analytical organization, and an understanding of financial services, particularly life and pensions.

Develop and deploy statistical, machine learning, and AI solutions to solve business problems. Responsibilities include sourcing and cleaning data, experimenting with analytical methodologies, gathering stakeholder requirements, communicating findings, supporting business decisions, and maintaining compliance and audit evidence. The role also contributes to data science best practices, modern software development practices, and scalable deployment across the organization.

Build and maintain relationships with pension trustees and advisers, retain existing assets, identify revenue opportunities, and broaden client relationships across Standard Life. Develop client plans and engagement strategies, monitor market changes and relationship risks, support new business, and deliver member engagement initiatives. The role requires strong communication, commercial focus, knowledge of defined contribution pensions, and effective stakeholder management.

Senior Talent Acquisition Partner supporting senior leaders across retirement solutions, asset management, investments, distribution, operations, and corporate functions. Responsibilities include leading complex recruitment, developing talent strategies and pipelines, direct sourcing passive candidates, providing market intelligence, advising hiring managers, promoting inclusive hiring, strengthening employer brand, and improving recruitment processes and technology.

Leads Group Internal Audit activities across customer, operations, and outsourced service providers. Manages and develops audit teams, oversees audit portfolio quality and delivery, verifies management actions, evaluates risks and controls, and provides strategic assurance to senior stakeholders and governance committees. Builds relationships, communicates complex findings, supports risk-based audit planning, and helps the organization respond effectively to regulatory, operational, and strategic change.

Leads people-focused technology change and business readiness for new telephony capabilities. Responsibilities include defining project scope and success measures, managing risks, governance, documentation, stakeholders, training, adoption, and transition to business-as-usual. The role partners with Operations, Technology, Communications, and Training teams to embed and sustain change while ensuring delivery meets scope, timeline, budget, and quality expectations.

Manage end-to-end onboarding of derivative trading counterparties, coordinating KYC, legal documentation, collateral agreements, regulatory requirements, and system configurations. Partner with Front Office, Legal, Risk, Compliance, Middle and Back Office teams, custodians, brokers, and external counterparties. Maintain accurate agreement and portfolio data across Aladdin and related platforms, support margin and EMIR reporting requirements, prioritize requests, resolve issues, and escalate risks appropriately.

Prepare, review, and analyze monthly management information, quarterly statutory and regulatory reports, and financial results. Explain performance drivers and variances to stakeholders, oversee controls and governance across internal and outsourced processes, support audits, improve reporting processes, contribute to finance projects, and help develop team capabilities.

Leads pricing, negotiation, governance, and execution of small and medium-sized Bulk Purchase Annuity transactions, while supporting larger deals. Acts as an actuarial subject matter expert on pension liabilities, benefit structures, and transaction strategy. Builds relationships with trustees, sponsors, advisers, and internal stakeholders; manages risk, audits, and documentation; and coaches junior actuarial staff. The role requires strong commercial judgment, technical pensions expertise, communication skills, and knowledge of UK Defined Benefit schemes.

Manage strategic relationships with outsourced third-party administrators across BPA and individual annuities. Oversee service performance, SLAs, KPIs, contracts, pricing, operational integration, risk, governance, compliance, customer outcomes, and continuous improvement. The role also supports onboarding, audits, remediation, automation, transformation, and senior stakeholder engagement while ensuring high-quality, cost-effective, compliant delivery.

Lead post-transaction pricing for existing pension risk transfer clients, overseeing bulk annuity pricing, pricing methodology, governance, controls, adjustments, benefit changes, and financial reporting impacts. Partner with deal, client services, finance, risk, audit, legal, and supplier teams to improve operating models, technology, efficiency, and customer outcomes. Provide technical leadership, sign off pricing, manage resources, and coach team members.

Qualified actuary responsible for managing Bulk Purchase Annuity transactions, producing cash flow and pricing models, maintaining actuarial models, supporting data cleansing and GMP equalisation, and handling non-standard requests. The role involves stakeholder communication, project management, contractual delivery, and coaching junior team members. Candidates need strong defined benefit pensions expertise, including GMP, franking, deferred member calculations, Solvency II, Matching Adjustment, and bulk annuity pricing.

The PRT Deal Team Actuary prices and executes bulk purchase annuity and reinsurance transactions. Responsibilities include leading cash flow and pricing model production, applying actuarial methodologies and assumptions, supporting cross-functional deal execution, solving non-standard transaction requirements, maintaining documented actuarial models, presenting technical analysis, and coaching junior colleagues. The role requires strong defined benefit pension knowledge, including GMP, franking, and deferred member calculations, with familiarity with Solvency II, Matching Adjustment, and bulk annuity pricing preferred.

Lead the origination, structuring, negotiation, and execution of complex Pension Risk Transfer and Bulk Purchase Annuity transactions. Develop innovative Defined Benefit de-risking solutions, build relationships with trustees, consultants, reinsurers, and stakeholders, lead pitches and commercial negotiations, and support pricing and risk decisions. Shape the company’s large-scheme strategy, provide market insight, and develop a high-performing specialist team while delivering strong client and commercial outcomes.