Associate Director

**Associate Director - Strategic Analytics, EMEA**

**London / Paris / Munich**

**Make a difference every day**

Invesco is driven by a pure focus on investment. It’s all we do. We focus on doing work that matters and being a firm that gives a voice to every employee. In fact, we make a promise to our clients and each other to create greater possibilities together. We’re looking for people who have fresh perspectives. Who can come together to share ideas, listen, and challenge each other to achieve better solutions for our clients.

**About the Team**

Invesco Real Estate (IRE), a global real estate investment manager, invests in direct property and publicly traded real estate securities, and has a 37-year investment track record. We are one of the largest real estate firms globally, and benefit from our exclusive focus on investment management and a performance-driven culture. Our services range from fund management, structuring and finance to acquisitions, asset management and dispositions. IRE is a highly stable organisation, with our global senior team having an average tenure of 14 years and 28 years’ industry experience. As the real estate investment management arm of Invesco Ltd., we have the global strength of a large organisation complemented by the expertise of our on-the-ground specialists who are active in their local markets every day. Underpinning this local expertise is our applied research philosophy: using the forward-looking forecasts of our global in-house research team to present our “best ideas” to our clients and aim to invest in the right markets, at the right time.

**Your role**

We are looking for our next Associate Director - Strategic Analytics, EMEA based in our London office. Within this role you will work with the Regional CIO and Investment Strategists to develop analytical resources which improve investment decision making, and therefore investment performance. As such, the role encompasses the creation of data analytical tools, both as long-term development projects and shorter-term reactive analyses, as well as communicating the outputs of these analyses to investment teams.
This role sits within the European Strategic Analytics team, based in London, working closely with the European Regional Investment Strategists and the global Strategic Analytics team to deliver strategic support on European markets to all areas of the European and global businesses (i.e. fund management, transactions, asset management, client relationship management).

**You will be involved in**:

- Working with other members of the business on the formulation of analysis to support real estate strategy
- Identifying, integrating, and analysing both real estate data sources and non-standard data sources to develop analytical tools
- Proactively assisting with the development of Invesco Real Estate’s strategic analytic tools and House Views
- Maintaining specialist knowledge of economic trends, markets, and sectors
- Special projects, which could include capturing / analysing information for new investment possibilities, individual or thematic market reports analysis, etc.

**Sound interesting?**

**You’ll need**:

- Experience working in a real estate environment, ideally with a real estate fund manager
- Know-how of data analysis in real estate markets as well as data science and analytics, and adept at statistical programming in python and/or R
- Experience working with cloud technologies (e.g. Snowflake or AWS) would be an advantage and with statistical modelling packages and tools
- Understanding of working with supervised and unsupervised machine learning algorithms
- Experience with any of: NLP, web scraping, operations research, visual learning, time-series forecasting, geospatial, ML/AI, unstructured data, graph databases would be advantageous
- Knowledge of telling data stories with data visualisation tools, and able to communicate effectively with business stakeholders to generate value from models and tools
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, and an ability to present technical analysis and strategic insights in a clear and concise manner
- Compliance awareness and knowledge
- Ability to appropriate level of numeracy and accuracy and able to challenge views and solves problems
- Client service attitude and ability to contribute to projects

**The good stuff**
- We have an outstanding benefits package, which includes:

- Competitive salary and bonus
- Company-provided healthcare
- 26 days’ annual leave + bank holidays
- Generous pension provisions
- Income protection
- Health and wellness benefits
- Volunteering days
- Enhanced parental leave
- Life insurance

**Our commitment to you**

We recognise that everyone is different and that the way in which people want to work and deliver at their best is different for everyone. As part of Invesco’s commitment to ensuring our teams have the broad range of experiences and backgrounds required to promote diversity