Sustainable Investment Stewardship Lead – Director

Redington; London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Stewardship Lead to guide clients in sustainable investment strategies. This role involves leading advisory work, developing stewardship solutions, and enhancing client engagement through innovative approaches. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in client-facing stewardship services, a deep understanding of sustainability issues, and a proven track record in stewardship assessment. Join a forward-thinking team committed to making a positive impact on investment performance while fostering professional growth and collaboration.

Benefits

Competitive salary and bonus

Matching pension contributions

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Opportunity for professional qualifications

Work from home flexibility

Private medical insurance

Paid parental leave

Qualifications

• Experience in client-facing stewardship services with strong sustainability knowledge.
• Significant experience in stewardship assessment across asset classes.

Responsibilities

• Lead stewardship solutions and advisory work for clients.
• Drive the build-out of stewardship strategy solutions.

Skills

Client facing stewardship services

Stewardship assessment

Sustainability issues

Analytical capabilities

Education

Relevant professional qualifications

Tools

Excel

Bloomberg

Job description

Company Description

About us

As an independent, award-winning andB Corp-Certifiedinvestment consultancy, we provide a full range of outcome-oriented advice, research and technology to some of the largest pension funds, wealth managers and other institutional investors across the UK and Europe.

Since our humble beginnings, we’ve challenged norms and pushed boundaries to deliver on our mission of helping to make 100 million people financially secure – for the benefit of people and planet.

Our team is home to some of the brightest minds in finance who thrive on seeking innovative solutions to our clients’ complex challenges.

We’re proud to now be a wholly owned subsidiary of Gallagher, a global leader in insurance, risk management, and consulting with a deep commitment to pensions, benefits and investment consulting. Together we create a truly global investment consulting firm with world-class service and the ability to drive outstanding outcomes for our clients. The focus, values and purpose that our clients have come to expect remain unchanged.

Sound like your cup of tea? We’d love for you to consider joining our team!

Job Description

About the role

The seven-person sustainable investment team at Redington provides investment strategy advice to our clients on all matters from setting investment beliefs and objectives around sustainability to defining a strategy to meet them including implementation routes like investment allocations and mandate changes to enhanced stewardship and advocacy. Redington has a culture and a history of being progressive but pragmatic and investment led in this area.

As the stewardship lead, you’ll be responsible for:

• Leading our stewardship solutions and advisory work including our Enhanced Stewardship Platform (ESP) which gives clients our views on their manager’s stewardship and voting capabilities and performance using bespoke analytics.

• Driving the continued build-out of stewardship strategy solutions for clients particularly those that are interested in public policy advocacy or have other types of systems-based stewardship beliefs

• Keeping the team and clients aware of regulatory and market-led policy developments and responding to relevant consultations on their behalf.

• Actively contributing to the continual improvement of Redington’s Manager Research process with regard to stewardship assessment and conducting these alongside asset class researchers when required.

• Representing the firm by keeping up and/or developing your public profile, contributing to various newsletters and blogs.
  

As a senior member of the team, you will be working with junior team members to deliver for our clients. Helping them gain technical experience and develop professionally is part of this role.

Qualifications

This role is for you if you have:

• A background in client facing stewardship services either at an asset manager, asset owner, service provider or a standard setter with a strong understanding of sustainability issues and their impact on investment performance.

• Significant experience in stewardship assessment including in manager selection across asset classes including credit and private markets.

• An entrepreneurial mindset to client solutions with an appropriate network of peers and clients to test and refine these.

• Good professional judgement and demonstrable credibility as a subject matter expert.

It would be great if you also have:

• Experience working with institutional asset owners.

• Experience doing analytics using manager voting records, proxy advisor guidance and Bloomberg.

• Strong, Excel-based analytical capabilities.

Additional Information

The benefits

A competitive salary and bonus

Matching contributions to our expertly-designed pension scheme

️ 25 days of holiday per year (plus bank holidays and your birthday)

The opportunity to study towards industry-recognised professional qualifications

The flexibility to work from home two days a week

Access to private medical insurance, critical illness cover and life assurance

Paid maternity, paternity, adoption or shared parental leave

Plus many more, which you can read about here

Equal opportunities

Diversity isn’t about recruiting individuals from minority groups to meet a quota; it’s about recruiting people from genuinely different backgrounds who bring with them a unique experience, perspective and skillset into an inclusive environment. Our commitment to inclusion and diversity will help us to tackle complex problems and create innovative solutions. You can learn more about inclusion and diversity at Redington here.

We’re an equal opportunity employer, which means we’ll consider all applicants irrespective of their age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, or veteran, neurodiversity or disability status.