EII EMEA Sustainable Indexing Team – Vice President

The ETF and Index Investing (EII) EMEA Sustainable Team is seeking a talented Product Strategist for it Sustainable Indexing Team to be based in London. The team is responsible for building and transforming the way investors understand, analyze and implement Sustainable index strategies within their portfolios.

Role Description

A key member of the EII EMEA Sustainable Indexing Team, with responsibility for growing the adoption of Sustainable index solutions (separate accounts and index mutual funds) in the EMEA region, providing product expertise in support of Sales, helping drive both client and BlackRock education, competitive positioning and supporting analysis to propel index selection and continue to position us as the clear market leader and a strong partner to our clients. This role will partner directly with Sales and across Marketing, BlackRock Sustainable Investing (BSI), the firm’s sustainable investment strategies platform and the overall EII business.

The successful candidate is to have demonstrated experience with index investing or within the Sustainable Investing space. From the Sustainable standpoint this would include having a broad sustainable product knowledge with proven experience in ESG research and be able to serve as a technical expert on the ESG ETFs product suite. The ability to partner with teams across functions and aptitude to navigate the product set will be integral component to successfully engage with clients.

The candidate profile will require a combination of client facing skills, quantitative skills, ESG research expertise, writing skills strategic thinking, organizational agility and practical investment experience to ensure the effective partnership with clients and collaboration with generalist sales teams to win new business and/or deepen large existing relationships to grow the adoption Sustainable index strategies in the EMEA region

Distribution

  • Direct interaction with clients in support of Sales providing detailed Sustainable product education, methodology expertise, analysis, such as risk and return attribution, single or multiple index comparative returns analysis, holdings analysis, ESG, factor, carbon and business involvement characteristics.
  • Execute strategy to distribute sustainable index solutions to sub segments within EMEA client segments (Asset owners, Insurance companies)
  • Coordinate internal training for global sales teams (EMEA, APAC, LATAM)
  • Follow-up to client engagements and requests, monitoring execution and tracking pipeline of opportunities
  • Syndication of new launches, coordinating seed arrangements and pipeline
  • Partner with Sustainable Research team Innovation for the future Sustainable solutions development pipeline.
  • Engage with BlackRock Investment Stewardship (BIS) and understand the vital role stewardship and engagement holds in investor’s Sustainable Investing philosophy and be able to convey to clients
  • Continually expand and deepen ESG related investment, portfolio construction. Stay abreast of current market environment and the latest relevant ESG research and regulation
  • Serve as a speaker/participant at BlackRock sponsored and industry conferences as needed.

Content

  • Respond to client ESG queries, requiring broad sustainable knowledge, co-ordination across specialist teams and ability to leverage BlackRock sustainable tools
  • Creation of regular sustainable content and maintenance of it (client decks, product brochures, monthly emails)
  • Create and coordinate investment insights around sustainable investing (performance attributions etc)
  • Create and oversee new content for product launches (client decks, product briefs, competitor positioning, Portfolio Implementation) in combination with Product Marketing
  • Distribution of thought leadership produced by BSI within EII
  • Along with EMEA Investment Strategy (IS)/Marketing/US teams, drive the creation and delivery of product specific strategies and content to drive iShares sales
  • Collaborate with marketing and digital teams to distribute content and promote the sustainable index business

Skills & Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent business experience required; and/or Masters/CFA a plus
  • 7+ years industry experience, specifically extensive investment management knowledge and experience
  • Strong written, analytical, presentation and communication skills, both verbal and written.
  • Experience interfacing with EMEA based clients
  • Proven experience with Excel, PowerPoint as well as Bloomberg or similar systems required
  • Attention to detail a must with strong analytical skills
  • High level of self-motivation as well as leadership skills
  • Strong organizational skills and ability to multi-task, prioritize and collaborate vertically/horizontally in a fast-paced environment
  • Strong research skills: ideally proven experience in working with MSCI ESG Research, Sustainalytics or other similar ESG research tools
  • Additional languages of Dutch or Nordic languages would be ideal.
  • Ability to travel regionally

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