Associate Vice President - Investment Research - ESG

We are scouting for Associate Vice President - Investment Research (ESG) for one of our clients which is a global professional services provider, offering research, analytics, and data management services.

Department: Investment Research

Nature of Job: Permanent

Location : Gurgaon/India

Job Title : AVP

Reporting To: VP

Essential Functions/Responsibilities:

- Leads strategic/digital initiatives for ESG Research and helps senior leadership in implementing broader strategic/digital initiatives

- Serves as an Account/Delivery Manager for key accounts, as needed

- Enhance the existing ESG data collection process, service offerings and frameworks

- Proven ability to manage and execute competitive pilots with hands-on leadership

- Demonstrate strong functional expertise by providing content leadership on projects

- Ability to plan long-term project resource requirements

- Defines success factors and identifies critical team goals and objectives

- Drives the teamwork necessary to achieve client delight

- Skilled at leading and coordinating across diverse teams to achieve desired outcomes

- Ensures retention plans and employee back-fill plans are in place

- Demonstrated experience presenting and interfacing with top leadership

- Reports and drives KPI's to achieve and over-achieve goal

Other Responsibilities:

- Provides coaching, feedback, and guidance to team members to ensure their successful contribution

- Regularly assesses each team- readiness (skills, capacity, capability), developing appropriate action plans to ensure business success

- Improve existing delivery processes and lead automation where applicable

- Maintains awareness of competitive service offerings and positions the company to win

Skill Set Required

- Experience in ESG strategy development and offering ESG solutions to International clients

- Knowledge of various reporting standards - UNPRI, SASB, TCFD, GRI, CDP, etc.

- Demonstrable hands-on project delivery experience

- Skilled at leading and coordinating across diverse teams to achieve desired outcomes

- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to mentor coach and train company team members

- Excellent communication, client relationship, and analytical skills

- Well organized and consistently meets commitments

- Flexible and promotes a teamwork environment

Education and experience - MBA / Maters in Environment, Economics, Social Sciences, with 10- 15 years of experience

Compensation - To be decided on a case-by-case basis, pegged with the best in the industry