Team Leader - Sustainable Finance - Data & Scores London, GBR Posted today

Bloomberg L.P.; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in financial data services seeks a proactive Team Leader for their Sustainable Finance Data team. This role involves overseeing the development and management of ESG data methodologies, ensuring high-quality datasets, and collaborating with various departments to enhance data governance and scoring frameworks. The ideal candidate should have strong leadership skills, relevant experience in data management, and a strategic vision for ESG initiatives.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of relevant leadership experience or strong relevant experience as an individual contributor.
• Experience in data management roles such as Data Ownership, Data Modeling, Data Quality.
• Knowledge of how ESG data is used by different financial market players.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of data management professionals and ESG industry specialists.
• Oversee the end-to-end lifecycle of environmental and social data collection.
• Ensure accuracy, consistency, and compliance of data sources with industry standards.

Skills

Leadership

Data Management

Data Analysis

Problem Solving

Interpersonal Skills

Education

Master’s degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Python

SQL

Tableau

Job description

Bloomberg runs on data. Our products are fueled by powerful information. We combine data and context to paint the whole picture for our clients, around the clock – from around the world. In Data, we are responsible for delivering this data, news and analytics through innovative technology - quickly and accurately. We apply problem-solving skills to identify innovative workflow efficiencies, and we implement technology solutions to enhance our systems, products and processes.

Our Team:

Using innovative, collaborative, and client focused approaches to data extraction, aggregation, and standardization, the Sustainable Finance Data team is responsible for enhancing ESG content for the Bloomberg Terminal and Enterprise products. This includes company-reported and normalized metrics, industry-specific metrics, proprietary ESG scores, climate and regulatory data. Our Sustainable Finance Data is displayed alongside fundamental data, backed by news for context, and used to power a growing suite of sustainable finance products.

What's the role?

We are seeking an experienced and proactive Team Leader to lead the development, management, and delivery of environmental and social data and scoring methodologies. This role will oversee a team of analysts and data scientists, driving the creation of high-quality, robust, and transparent datasets and scorecards to inform ESG strategy, risk management, and stakeholder reporting. You will lead by example in understanding data management practices and the broader environment in which the team operates. We expect you to bring a strategic approach and guide the team to find opportunities for alignment and improve processes closely with teams across Data, as well as partners across Product, Engineering and Research.

We’ll trust you to:

• Lead and mentor a team of data management professionals and ESG industry specialists

• Lead all aspects of the end-to-end lifecycle of environmental and social data collection, processing, and scoring in addition to developing and implementing data governance protocols

• Coordinate cross-functional projects with internal and external partners, including sustainability experts, tech teams, and regulatory leads

• Ensure accuracy, consistency, and compliance of data sources with industry standards (e.g., GRI, SASB, TCFD, SFDR)

• Integrate both structured and unstructured data from trusted sources

• Design and evolve scoring frameworks for environmental and social indicators (e.g., carbon emissions, water use, labor practices).

• Stay current with regulatory developments, industry standard methodologies, and emerging data trends

• Collaborate with your team and partners to improve scoring models with automation and predictive analytics

• Present findings and recommendations to senior leadership and internal partners.

• Showcase clear progress with clear critical metrics

• Partner with Product and Engineering to ensure deliverables are well understood, and align with the overall business goals.

You’ll need to have:

*Please note we use years of experience as a guide but we certainly will consider applications from all candidates who are able to demonstrate the skills necessary for the role.

• 3+ years of relevant leadership experience or strong relevant experience as an individual contributor as well as relevant domain knowledge within ESG*

• Proven experience in data management related roles such as Data Ownership, Data Modeling, Data Quality and/or Data Engineering

• Strategic vision to align your team's goals while providing outstanding service to business and other internal/external clients

• Experience implementing a product strategy which delivers on that vision

• Experience working with large datasets alongside the ability to quantify trends impacting the industry

• Proven track record establishing strong credibility and building influential relationships with your team as well as multiple internal and external clients and partners

• Knowledge of how ESG data is used by different financial market players

• Ability to use qualitative and quantitative evidence to drive commercial decisions

• Superb interpersonal skills to establish strong credibility and influential relationships in order to communicate business needs and an operational strategy to internal and external partners.

• Creative and flexible approach to problem solving, aided by strong data analysis and visualization skills using tools such as Python, SQL, and/or Tableau

We’d love to see:

• Master’s degree or equivalent experience in a relevant field

• Experience or knowledge in Bloomberg ESG products, Bloomberg terminal fluency, and/or Bloomberg data workflows

• Understanding of data governance standard processes

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