Polar Capital – Company Overview

Polar Capital is a fund management company with a focus to best serve our wide range of clients. Since its foundation in 2001, we have grown steadily and currently have thirteen autonomous investment teams managing specialist, active portfolios (differentiated from indices), with a combined assets under management of £28bn and predominantly invested in listed equities. Our thirteen investment teams are supported by marketing, administrative and operational staff. Our head office is in London, Victoria, where almost 170 staff are based with a further 26 colleagues located in nine small offices around the world including France, Switzerland, China and the US.

Programme information

You will join us as a Product Management Trainee as part of the Investment20/20 Trainee Program where you will develop the key skills and knowledge required for your role. The role of the Product team is varied, encompassing fund governance, product lifecycle management and product development activities but you will also have exposure to all business areas, thereby gaining a breadth of industry knowledge and experience to enable you to make informed decisions about where you would like to develop your career. 

As part of the Investment20/20 Program, you will have opportunities to meet and network with over 100 trainees across the industry and participate in socials and insight events. 

The traineeship is a fixed term one-year contract paying £30,000 per annum. You will receive 27 days annual leave. The role is based in London. The successful candidate will be expected to be in the office five days a week until 3-months’ probation is passed. This will change to four days per week, with one day working from home, at the manager’s discretion. 

Responsibilities include: 

• Supporting the team of two managers, one senior analyst and five executives in the creation, maintenance and distribution of product marketing materials, including but not limited to fund factsheets, due diligence questionnaires, valuations and holdings reports. 
• Act as a key point of contact for product-related queries, responding to internal stakeholders and external third parties, while ensuring fund information displayed on third-party platforms is accurate, consistent, and kept up to date.
• Carry out other duties as assigned.

Requirements

If you are a graduate who has an interest in working within financial services and have the following attributes, we are interested in hearing from you: 

• Strong desire to gain experience within the investment management industry in a product or marketing role or similar sector/role. 
• High level of attention to detail. 
• Excellent organisational and communication skills (both written and verbal). 
• Self-starter with a ‘can do’ attitude.
• A strong desire to learn.
• Inquisitive and enjoy interpreting information and problem solving.

Must have skills 

• Excellent level of literacy and numeracy
• Ability to work with large data sets and to tight deadlines
• Proficient in MS Office programs (Outlook, PowerPoint, Word, Excel)
• Organised and efficient, with strong attention to detail
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Confident and proactive approach
• An interest in automation and process improvement – exposure to VBA, SQL, Python or similar a plus
• Ability to use AI tools responsibly in a professional setting

How to apply

Applications to be sent to: [email protected] 

Subject the email: Investment 20/20 – Product Management Trainee

Your application should include: 

• CV
• Covering letter
• Answer the 3 questions below with c.150-200 words per answer:

1. What are you hoping to achieve from the trainee programme?
2. What evidence can you give us that you are someone with personal drive and determination? 
3. Tell us about the most interesting project or piece of work you have completed as part of your studies at either school/college or university. What did you have to do and what interested you most about it? 

Successful candidates will have to undergo two to three interviews (at least one in person).

Key dates

Online applications close 30 January 2026, however this may close early if we receive a large number of applications.

Start date on or before 1 March 2026

Unfortunately, we are unable to respond to all applications. Should you not hear back from us within two weeks of the closing date, please presume that the application was unsuccessful.