Investment Specialist Sustainable Investing

Department

Robeco is recruiting a full-time Sustainable Investing (SI) Investment Specialist within their SI Center of Expertise. This role is based in Rotterdam. As an asset manager, Robeco recognizes sustainability investing as one of its main strategic pillars. Robeco is a committed signatory to the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) since 2006 and has a net zero ambition for 2050.

Department

The SI Center of Expertise focuses on a broad range of activities related to Robeco’s Sustainable Investing approach: SI thought leadership, SI Research, Active Ownership and SI CPM activities.

The Sustainable Investing Client Portfolio Management (SI CPM) team is primarily responsible for explaining and presenting Robeco’s approach to Sustainable Investing to both internal and external clients. The team aims for excellence in:

• SI client communication for prospective and existing clients,
• client materials and reporting on SI that are aligned across the organization,
• knowledge sharing on SI, both internally and externally, and
• providing client input to further develop our SI product offering

The ultimate goal of the team is to contribute to the success of Robeco in acquiring and maintaining assets under management and to enable our clients to achieve their financial and sustainability goals by providing superior investment returns and solutions.

Position & Requirements

The Investment specialist contributes to the team by working closely with the SI Client Portfolio Managers in preparing presentations and answering questions from clients and prospects. The SI Investment Specialist is responsible for keeping his/her sustainability and investment expertise up-to-date, as well as ensuring a thorough comprehension of the developments in sustainable investment within Robeco.

The SI Investment Specialist must establish and maintain a strong network of colleagues, for example with the RFP team, Sales, other CPM teams, Portfolio Information and the colleagues from the SI Centre of Expertise.

Requirements

You have an academic intellectual ability, preferably with respect to sustainable finance or economics, and have 1-4 years of relevant working experience in financial services. Furthermore, you should be commercially minded, creative, flexible and have a can-do mentality. We expect you to be fluent in English and preferably one other language. We strive to obtain diversity in age, culture and gender in our team; for this reason, complementarity of the candidate to the existing team is an important consideration in the selection process.

All applications will be treated with the utmost confidentiality. An assessment and integrity test may be used in the selection procedure.

Robeco Recruiting Team

About Us

As a Dutch asset manager operating globally, Robeco has always combined the best of both worlds. We have global reach and ambitions, while retaining our head office in our hometown of Rotterdam. Employees at Robeco share that combination: we hire and nurture people who can think internationally and put the client first, while keeping their feet firmly on the ground. We have strong links with academia, which underpin the research in our robust quantitative and sustainability investing strategies. Our people have backgrounds in finance but also in economics and geography. Likewise, as pioneers in emerging markets investing, our diverse backgrounds also add local knowledge. We offer an informal and flexible office atmosphere that gives people the room to be themselves, to grow and to perform to the best of their ability.