Senior Stewardship Manager
HSBC
- Courbevoie, Hauts-de-Seine
- CDI
- Temps-plein
- Support the Responsible Investment team in meeting its strategic objectives
- Support the Stewardship team’s goals of scaling and integrating stewardship while getting strong and purposeful outcomes
- As a “theme lead”, develop and deliver the engagement programme for one or more of our core stewardship themes and/or sectors, and provide expert insight and thought leadership for the themes/sectors/regions you are responsible for
- Develop company specific engagement plans and lead discussions with companies on a range of sustainability and corporate governance issues
- Closely work with investment teams to solicit their input on company engagement strategies. Support investment teams to carry out engagements, and develop and implement their own fund- or product-level engagement strategies
- Lead decision-making on voting at shareholder meetings for a subset of companies and/or issues, in line with our global voting guidelines
- Participate in collaborative industry engagement initiatives
- Support the monitoring and reporting of stewardship activities to key stakeholders, including clients
- Act as the Stewardship team’s representative and point of contact for our French office
- Contribute to the ongoing development of HSBC AM’s stewardship approach and support the wider goals of the responsible investment team
- A track record of engaging and influencing companies on sustainability and/or corporate governance issues, and experience of proxy voting
- Good knowledge of global stewardship best practices, particularly in Europe.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with a wide range of stakeholders and build trust with senior leaders
- A solid grasp of key financial and investment principles, underpinned by robust analytical and technical skills
- English proficiency is essential; business fluency in major languages used in Continental Europe an advantage
- Holding a financial qualification or higher degree in finance, economics and/or sustainability is advantageous but not a pre-requisite
- We’ll help you progress your career, including access to development programmes, mentoring and coaching, as well as world-class training through HSBC University
- You can work your way and will have a say in when, where and how you and your team flexibly work together
- Our benefits will give you financial security, and can include:
o Lunch vouchers
o A holiday scheme allowing accumulation (“Compte Epargne temps”)
- Other schemes will benefit your family such as:
o An allowance for newborn babies
o An allowance for parents of children with disabilities
- We’ll give you a huge range of resources that support your mental, physical and social well-being, as well as training courses dedicated to Leadership development.
- You’ll have opportunities to work internationally - this can be your place to start and branch out to anywhere we have offices