Climate Change and Nature Solutions Specialist

Climate Change and Nature Solutions Specialist

As the leading provider of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Research, Ratings, and Indexes, we continue to grow our presence with the world's largest asset managers, banks, hedge funds, pension funds, wealth managers, and corporations. Central to our clients’ focus on ESG issues is the impact climate change and biodiversity will have on their investment portfolios or lending and underwriting books from both a risk and opportunity perspective. We seek to expand our client-facing team with a commercially-minded individual who will serve as a technical Climate and Nature Solutions Specialist to prospective and existing clients in the EMEA region. The Specialist will be a subject matter expert on MSCI’s climate and biodiversity models and relevant industry and regulatory frameworks and an integral part of the business development team. This role will ideally be based at MSCI’s Paris office, France, but could also be located at one of MSCI’s other offices in Europe.

Your Team Responsibilities

• Promote and facilitate the deployment and use of MSCI’s climate and biodiversity solutions among institutional investors, wealth managers, and banks in the EMEA region.
• Collaborate with the EMEA Client Coverage team to create a market strategy for MSCI's climate and biodiversity offerings.
• Keep updated on key EU and UK climate and biodiversity regulations to offer insights and knowledge during client interactions.
• Aid clients in understanding enterprise and portfolio-level outputs from MSCI’s climate scenario models, such as Climate Value-at-Risk or Implied Temperature Rise metrics, and from biodiversity assessments.
• Assist MSCI clients in implementing their climate and biodiversity strategies.
• Relay market feedback to our Product Management team to enhance, improve, and tailor our offerings, including the integration of climate and biodiversity into the wider MSCI offering.
• Support the Product Management team with specific market analysis, including competitor reviews.
• Provide sales-enabling tools related to MSCI’s Climate and Biodiversity Solutions to the Client Coverage team.
• Participate and speak at MSCI webinars and external events focused on climate and biodiversity topics.
• Collect climate-related market intelligence and develop new pitches for selling climate and biodiversity solutions.
• Share industry trends and competitive insights on Climate Scenario Analysis and Nature and Biodiversity Assessments with senior management.
• Expand your network by attending relevant industry events.
• Set individual innovation goals to help MSCI advance its climate and biodiversity solutions within the broader context of MSCI Analytics, Index, or Private Capital solutions.

Your skills and experience that will help you excel

• Fast learner and strong logical thinker
• Keen interest in climate change and biodiversity topic
• Applicable experience working in client-facing or business development roles
• Excellent presentation, communication skills and interpersonal skills
• Good networking and inter-personal skills
• Absolute personal and business integrity
• Innovative, entrepreneurial, customer orientated thinker with a strong consultative client-focused approach
• A team builder and player with emotional and professional maturity
• Smart individual with drive and capacity to manage a dynamic, fast paced environment
• A good understanding of the ESG market and how climate change and biodiversity risks and opportunities affect investment decision-making
• Fluency in English is required, French would be a plus

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional work experience
• Background in ESG/Sustainability/Climate Change from a practitioner, academic or policy perspective
• Financial Services experience highly preferred
• Bachelor's degree required (MA or CFA designation a plus) or equivalent experience
• Willingness to travel

About MSCI

What we offer you

• Transparent compensation schemes and comprehensive employee benefits, tailored to your location, ensuring your financial security, health, and overall wellbeing.
• Flexible working arrangements, advanced technology, and collaborative workspaces.
• A culture of high performance and innovation where we experiment with new ideas and take responsibility for achieving results.
• A global network of talented colleagues, who inspire, support, and share their expertise to innovate and deliver for our clients.
• Global Orientation program to kickstart your journey, followed by access to our Learning@MSCI platform, LinkedIn Learning Pro and tailored learning opportunities for ongoing skills development.
• Multi-directional career paths that offer professional growth and development through new challenges, internal mobility and expanded roles.
• We actively nurture an environment that builds a sense of inclusion belonging and connection, including eight Employee Resource Groups.

At MSCI we are passionate about what we do, and we are inspired by our purpose – to power better investment decisions. You’ll be part of an industry-leading network of creative, curious, and entrepreneurial pioneers. This is a space where you can challenge yourself, set new standards and perform beyond expectations for yourself, our clients, and our industry.

MSCI Inc. is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversifying its workforce. It is the policy of the firm to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, age, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, disability, marital and civil partnership/union status, pregnancy, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. MSCI is also committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities.

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