Why join us?

Man offers three key career advantages. The chance to join a leading company enjoying phenomenal growth, a culture that offers commercial challenge, intellectual stimulation and personal respect in equal measure, and a business model that combines small-company agility with a truly global reach.

Culture – Our people inhabit the place where intellectual curiosity meets commercial acumen. So you’ll find us understated, personable and collaborative, working in an atmosphere built on trust and mutual regard. We operate in a flat, lean structure with little hierarchy. Day-to-day, you will be working amongst – and with – our senior managers. They’ll listen to your ideas, and you will learn directly from their experience. Of course, there’ll be pressure – but it comes from the work, not the workplace.

Growth – since flotation in 1994, our value has increased twenty-fold. Today, we’re the world’s most successful listed alternative investments company. The innovation on which we built our success has now become mainstream thinking. But we haven’t eased up – we’re still ambitious, driven and engaged with new ideas.

Key growth facts:

  • The alternative investment sector still constitutes only a small percentage of global markets, leaving enormous potential for future growth and opportunity.
  • We regard the management of material non-financial risk and reputation as absolutely key to the sustainability of our business. We therefore maintain a major commitment to corporate responsibility, climate change and charitable/sponsorship activity. Naturally, a healthy profit also allows us to offer extremely attractive remuneration packages, which amply reward people for their contributions and ensure they enjoy a satisfying quality of life.


Agility and reach – With only some 1,600 employees worldwide, we’re a streamlined organisation with the agility and flexibility that goes with it. Yet our global presence and network also means that we have the resources and support infrastructure to act on opportunities wherever they arise, and quickly. At any one time, a good 7% of our employees are on international assignments. So wherever your individual talents lie, we have the scope to enable you to develop them to the full – wherever in the world that may lead you. Career development here is not about climbing a fixed ladder – it’s about taking responsibility for setting your own goal and your own route, and developing the skills you need along the way.

Our people

Our success has been built purely on outstanding ability. So naturally, we recognise the need to attract the most talented individuals – by giving them the skills, motivation, support and space they need to develop and excel in their careers.

Our people are proud to work for us, are committed to our principles and goals, and clear about the challenges they face, the rewards they can expect and what they can aspire to achieve (Source: Latest Global Staff Survey). From graduate-entry level right up to senior management, the training programmes are in place to ensure that everyone is fully able to realise their potential.

The performance we deliver to investors is directly linked to the performance of our people, we take care to recognise and give accelerated development to our key performers at all levels. The scope for reward and opportunity is world-class.