Sustainable Investments Manager, Real Estate - London at Aberdeen

Position Sustainable Investments Manager, Real Estate - London
Posted 18 Aug 2026
Expired 17 Sep 2026
Company Aberdeen
Location London | GB
Job Type Full Time

Job Description:

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Sustainable Investments Manager, Real Estate - London

Job Description

At Aberdeen, our ambition is to be the UKs leading Wealth & Investments group.


Strengthening talent and culture is one of our strategic priorities. We strive to make Aberdeen a great place to work so that we can attract and retain the industrys best talent.


Our people put our stakeholders at the heart of everything they do by helping us to make a positive difference to the lives of our clients, customers, colleagues, shareholders, and society.


We are focused on growing our direct and advised wealth platforms and repositioning our specialist asset management business to meet client demand. We are committed to providing excellent client service, supported by leading technology and talent.


Aberdeen comprises three businesses, interactive investor (ii), Investments, and Adviser, each of which focuses on meeting and adapting to our clients evolving needs.


interactive investor, the UKs second largest direct-to-consumer investment platform, enables individuals in the UK to plan, save, and invest in the way that works for them.


Our Adviser business provides financial planning solutions and technology for UK financial advisers, enabling them to create value for their customers.


Our Investments business is a specialist asset manager that focuses on areas where we have both strength and scale to capitalise on the key themes shaping the market, through either public markets or alternative asset classes.

About the Department

The Real Estate team is a major investment area for Aberdeen, managing a diverse global platform and advising fund management, asset management and development teams. Sustainability is central to how the department assesses long-term value, regulatory change and environmental performance across properties. The seperate Sustainable Investments team works across investment classes to embed practical, decision-useful sustainable investment approaches, while you will not directly work in the sustainability team, you will work together, helping to enable our clients to be better investors by connecting technical sustainability insight with commercial real estate strategy.

About the Role

As Sustainable Investments Manager, Real Estate, you will lead the Europe and Asia sustainable investment agenda for our direct real estate business from London. This permanent role sits within Investment Management, Real Estate and reports to the Head of Sustainable Investments, Real Estate, while partnering closely with investment, fund, asset management and development teams. You will play a central role in embedding ESG, climate risk and net zero considerations into investment decision-making, portfolio strategy and asset-level delivery across a large and varied real estate portfolio. It is an opportunity to influence transactions, client engagement, data, reporting and industry dialogue while balancing sustainability ambition with investment performance. You will work in Aberdeens blended working environment, combining collaboration in the office with flexibility to work from home where it suits the role, team and business.

Key Responsibilities

  • Support the evolution and implementation of the Sustainable Investment and ESG strategy for Real Estate, including net zero delivery at fund and asset level.
  • Provide ESG advice across the investment lifecycle, including acquisitions, due diligence, risk assessment, Investment Committee input and measurable fund and asset strategies.
  • Lead client and investor engagement on sustainable investment topics, including presentations, responses to requirements and representation with external stakeholders.
  • Drive ESG reporting, governance and regulatory alignment across frameworks including SFDR, TCFD, TNFD, GRESB, INREV, EU Taxonomy, EPBD and MEES.
  • Oversee ESG data systems and performance analysis so investment teams can access consistent, high-quality and decision-useful sustainability data.
  • Contribute to thought leadership, innovation, internal training and industry engagement through forums such as GRESB, BBP, BPF and INREV.

About the Candidate

We are looking for someone with the technical expertise, commercial judgement and influencing skills to help shape sustainable real estate investment decisions across multiple markets.

  • Experience integrating ESG or sustainable investment considerations into real estate investment, asset management or development.
  • Ability to contribute to transactions, including ESG due diligence, flood risk, ground contamination, decarbonisation CAPEX modelling and Investment Committee communication.
  • Strong understanding of climate change, decarbonisation, environmental performance, building systems and energy performance in real assets.
  • Knowledge of GHG scope application to real estate assets, with familiarity of the GHG Protocol, PCAF and CRREM pathways or modelling.
  • Understanding of ESG regulation and frameworks, including SFDR, TCFD, EU Taxonomy, EPBD, MEES and GRESB, plus experience of ESG reporting and sustainability data systems.
  • Confident stakeholder management, presentation and client-facing skills, with a collaborative, analytical and delivery-focused approach across teams and geographies.

Desirable criteria include a relevant degree, for example in real estate, engineering, environmental science or finance, and experience in ESG or sustainable investment within real estate or a sustainability consultancy environment.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer. 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. 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 benefitshere.

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 dohere.

An inclusive way of working

Whatever way you like to work, if you have the talent and commitment to join our team, wed like to hear from you.

At Aberdeen weve adopted a blended working approach. This approach combines the benefits of face-to-face collaboration, coaching and connecting in our offices with the flexibility of working from home. It enables colleagues to find a balance that works for their roles, their teams, our clients and our business.

An inclusive culture, where diverse perspectives drive our actions, is at the core of who we are and what we do. If you need assistance with your application, or a reasonable adjustment to your interview arrangements for example, because you are neurodivergent, or have a physical, sensory, cognitive, mental, visible or invisible disability please let us know and well be happy to help.

Were 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.

Job Info:

  • Company: Aberdeen
  • Position: Sustainable Investments Manager, Real Estate - London
  • Work Location: London
  • Country: GB

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