Location
London

Hours
Hybrid working with flexible arrangements available

Salary
Competitive compensation with potential eligibility for an annual discretionary bonus award based on company, department, team and individual performance

About the Role
Join Janus Henderson and be part of a mission-driven firm dedicated to helping clients achieve superior financial outcomes through differentiated insights, disciplined investments, and world-class service. As Assistant Business Manager, you will play a high-impact, highly visible role supporting the Chief of Staff (People) and the wider leadership team. Your key responsibility will be to translate priorities into execution by connecting strategy, operations, and communications to ensure the People function runs effectively.

You will work closely with senior stakeholders, contribute to key leadership forums including the Executive Committee (ExCo), and play a critical role in delivering the People strategy for the firm.

Key responsibilities include:
- Executive & leadership support: assisting the Chief of Staff in driving key priorities, coordinating ExCo and senior leadership materials, and tracking actions to ensure timely delivery
- Business management & operations: supporting business planning, tracking and reporting, maintaining management information such as scorecards and dashboards, assisting with budgeting and financial tracking, and ensuring strong governance and control
- Project coordination & delivery: supporting priority projects including engagement surveys, People initiatives, and transformation programmes, coordinating inputs across teams, identifying risks and resolving issues proactively
- Communications & engagement: supporting internal communications for the People function and leadership updates, shaping clear and consistent messaging, and coordinating key events, offsites, and leadership forums
- Stakeholder management: acting as a key coordination point across People, Finance, Communications and other functions, building strong relationships with senior stakeholders, and ensuring alignment across competing priorities

Janus Henderson offers a supportive and inclusive environment with generous holiday policies, excellent health and wellbeing benefits, paid volunteer time, professional development opportunities, parental leave benefits, employee networking events, and a subsidized onsite canteen with lunch allowance.

We are committed to diversity and encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds. We offer reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process and support hybrid working arrangements.

Experience
- Experience in business management, project management, or chief of staff support roles
- Proven ability to work with senior stakeholders and leadership teams
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong attention to detail and ability to handle sensitive information
- Highly proactive with a strong problem-solving mindset
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, evolving environment

About you
- Collaborative and able to build strong relationships across functions
- Adaptable and able to manage competing priorities effectively
- Committed to upholding regulatory obligations and company policies
- Embraces diversity and inclusion as core values

Qualifications
- Knowledge of the Senior Manager and Certification Regime is desirable but not essential
- No supervisory responsibilities associated with this role

Janus Henderson is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status. Applicants should be willing to adhere to the firm’s Investment Advisory Code of Ethics and regulatory requirements applicable to their role.