Head of Stewardship

4 weeks ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom HSBC Full time

Job description

Head of Stewardship, HSBC Global Asset Management

Location: London

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HSBC Asset Management, the investment management business of the HSBC Group, serves HSBC's worldwide customer base of retail and private clients, intermediaries, corporates and institutions invested in both segregated accounts and pooled funds. HSBC Asset Management fulfils its purpose of connecting HSBC's clients with investment opportunities around the world through an international network of offices in approximately 30 countries, delivering global capabilities with local market insight.

We are currently seeking experienced senior professional to join as Head of Stewardship. Reporting to the Head of Responsible Investment (RI) this senior leadership role sits within HSBC Asset Management's (AM) Investment Function. The role holder will lead, develop, and manage HSBC AM's Global Stewardship Team. They will work with investment teams to develop effective voting and engagement strategies to maintain appropriate fiduciary oversight of our clients' assets.

The role requires extensive senior level engagement with companies and industry leaders. Active participation in industry initiative will enable HSBC AM to extend the scope and influence of our stewardship activity. HSBC AM has ambitions to be a recognized leader in RI therefore the role holder should have external profile with media and clients.

In this role, you will:

  • Proactively lead, coach and manage a team of voting and engagement specialists; responsible for overseeing all activities within the team and fostering a collaborative culture
  • Drive the development HSBC AM's voting and engagement policies (in collaboration with HSBC AM's Policy Lead) and over time ensure that these support all client assets within HSBC AM, including equity, fixed income, multi-asset and alternatives.
  • Establish the appropriate balance of activity between investment teams and this dedicated engagement team to ensure most effective and efficient implementation of the engagement plan.
  • Advocate and advise investment teams on strategic and effective outcome-based engagements and escalation tactics
  • Lead engagement with key stakeholders to address systemic and idiosyncratic risks: issuers, policymakers, standards setters, industry bodies and NGOs
  • Support on key projects such as the development of systems to enhance reporting and transparency.
  • Identify and manage appropriate partnerships to deliver the stewardship and engagement strategies most effectively
  • Deliver the 2022 Stewardship Plan with clear thematic focus, aligned with enhanced voting guidelines
  • Oversee the Integrated Supervision System (ISS) contract sign off, management of relationship and monitor quality of service

Requirements

To be successful in the role, you should meet the following requirements:

  • A proven leader with extensive experience of stakeholder management, cross-border team leadership and team development.
  • Strong knowledge of global stewardship best practice, particularly in Emerging Markets and Asia
  • Broad understanding of ESG issues as they relate to asset management and asset owners
  • Strong engagement or advocacy experience across a variety of markets and topics.
  • Proven ability and track record of interacting and influencing senior investment professionals
  • Strong interpersonal and engagement skills; ability to influence and inspire internal and external stakeholders
  • Ability to help define, shape and evolve AM's Responsible Investment strategy.
  • Strong communication skills, including report writing and oral communication.
  • Enjoy working as part of a team, collaborating and coordinating where appropriate.

This is a Hybrid working role with the base location as London. The successful candidate will have to have the ability to commute to this location.

You'll achieve more when you join HSBC.

At HSBC we look to enable our employees to better balance their work / life priorities and have the flexibility required to meet challenging needs as they progress through different life stages. Where possible we will consider the following flexible working options: part-time working, job sharing, term-time working, and working from home and staggered hours. If in considering a role with HSBC, you have a need for some flexibility in your working arrangements please discuss this with the recruitment team in the early stages of the application process.

HSBC is committed to being an inclusive employer and providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process for all. We will provide reasonable adjustments to remove any disadvantage to you being considered for this role. We are proud members of the Disability Confident Scheme, and will offer an interview to disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role. If you would like to receive any information in a different way or would like us to do anything differently to help you apply for our roles, please contact our Recruitment Helpdesk:

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Within the workplace you will have access to various employee resource groups which aim to promote and achieve a healthy work / life balance and support our diversity ambitions. HSBC has processes in place to avoid nepotism. This means we will avoid circumstances in which the appearance or possibility of conflicts of interest may exist within the hiring process."

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