Position Overview & Specifications

Are you a motivated, highly organised person and collaborative assistant looking to grow their responsibilities? Man Solutions is one of the fastest growing areas of Man Group. By utilising the Man wide investment platform the area thrives on building innovative investment solutions for our global client base. The administrative support team plays a vital role in ensuring the smooth running of effort. It provides support to a multi-national team based in London, New York and Pfäffikon, helping this exciting and fast growing area to function effectively. Job Summary: In this managerial role you will be responsible for the organisation and smooth running of the assistants support function. The core focus of the role will be to lead the support area, managing a team of two, helping with the efficient running of the entire area, ensuring that meetings, events and travel are all smoothly booked and scheduled. The role will provide direct executive assistant to the CEO and management committee of the area. In addition the role also offers a chance to play a part in helping develop the business by assisting with project management, event management or talent initiatives. This role represents a great opportunity for those with experience in managing a team looking to help support a rapidly growing area, or even those ready to take their first managerial steps. Would you enjoy…
  • Leading a team of two assistants ensuring the team is motivated, organised and effective
  • Assisting the team with co-ordination and scheduling of meetings, calls, and travel
  • Organising social events for the business unit
  • Assisting with the co-ordination of project across the solutions areas
  • Assisting with the coordination of talent development projects
If so and you have the attributes below we would love to hear from you.
  • You have exceptionally strong team, communication and collaboration skills
  • You are highly organised with a high degree of attention to detail
  • You enjoy working with a multinational team
  • You thrive on juggling many and varied requests, ensuring our team gets the best possible support
  • You possess a high degree of discretion to help best support senior management
  • You will have highly developed IT skills in MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Outlook
Please know that we welcome talented people from all backgrounds. About Man FRM Man FRM is an alternative investment specialist, deploying investment and advisory services within client portfolios. Man FRM provides an open-architecture, full service offering to clients, ranging from advisory work to customised and commingled portfolio solutions, as well as a leading, technologically advanced managed account platform. Man FRM continues to develop its advisory capabilities and business, responding to increased client interest in customised client portfolio solutions. The engine works closely in partnership with clients, in areas such as portfolio allocation, risk analysis and risk architecture. These services are complemented by Man FRM’s Clarus tool, an internally developed, sophisticated online portal providing clients with enhanced transparency and insight into their alternative investment portfolios. Founded in 1991 and becoming part of Man Group in 2012, Man FRM’s funds under management were $19.9 billion at 30 September 2022. Further information can be found at www.man.com/frm. Work-Life Balance and Benefits at Man Man Group is proud to provide the best working environment possible for all of its employees, and we are committed to equality of opportunity. At Man Group we believe that a diverse workforce is a critical factor in the success of our business, and this is embedded in our culture and values. We run a number of external and internal initiatives, partnerships and programmes that help us to attract and develop talent from diverse backgrounds and encourage diversity and inclusion across our firm and industry. https://www.man.com/diversity. Man Group is also a Signatory of the Women in Finance Charter. Man Group supports many charities, and global initiatives. We support professional training and development, and requests for flexible or part-time working. Employees are also offered two 'Mankind' days of paid leave per year as part of the Man Charitable Trust's community volunteering programme. We offer comprehensive, firm-wide employee benefits including competitive holiday entitlements, pension/401k, life and long-term disability coverage, group sick pay, enhanced parental leave and long-service leave. Additional benefits are tailored to local markets and may include private medical coverage, discounted gym membership and wellbeing programmes.