Company Description
Legal & General (L&G) is a leading UK financial services group and major global investor.
We’ve been safeguarding people’s financial futures since 1836, and strive to build a better society, while improving the lives of our customers and creating value for shareholders.
We are one of the world’s largest asset managers and provide powerful asset origination capabilities. Together, these underpin our retirement and protection solutions: we are an international player in pension risk transfer, in UK and US life insurance, and in UK workplace pensions and retirement income.
Our global asset management business provides our clients and partners with complex, responsible investment solutions, working internationally across public and private markets.
Who we are
We are one of Europe’s largest asset managers and a major global investor across public and private markets.
Asset Management is a critical driver of our Group strategy. The business aims to work synergistically with our Institutional Retirement and Retail divisions to benefit our clients and customers, and deliver enhanced shareholder returns.
Our investment philosophy and processes are focused on creating value over the long term. We believe that incorporating financially material sustainability criteria, when relevant to our clients, can create value and drive positive change.
Job Description
We’re recruiting for a Responsible Investment Associate to support across the key pillars of the Responsible Investment Capabilities team across the execution of client management across L&G’s responsible investment (“RI”) and stewardship activities. Additionally, it will support the team’s aims to advance L&G’s market-leading responsible investment proposition to meet L&G's commercial aspirations and deliver exceptional client outcomes across the full spectrum of client objectives
What you’ll be doing:
- Developing a strong understanding of L&G’s responsible investment and stewardship proposition, including engagement, voting processes and thematic priorities
- Supporting client engagement through drafting materials and delivering accurate, tailored content for meetings, RFPs, DDQs, reports and media enquiries
- Contributing to the creation of high-quality presentations, case studies and standardised responses aligned to distribution requirements
- Providing data-driven insights and analysis on voting and engagement activity for both regular and ad hoc reporting
- Building subject matter expertise across responsible investment frameworks, methodologies and investment processes
- Supporting the ongoing operation and enhancement of internally owned responsible investment methodologies
- Conducting research and analysis across regulatory, market, client and sustainability themes to inform frameworks, product strategy and competitive positioning
- Contributing to governance and infrastructure initiatives by enhancing data usage, supporting oversight processes and preparing materials for sustainability performance review committees
Who we’re looking for:
- Investments knowledge, ideally incorporating sustainable investing concepts
- Communications: strong ability to articulate and explain complex concepts
- Research and analysis: including a strong proficiency in MS Office. Familiarity with Python and some experience of AI would be desirable
- Demonstration of education and/or work experience relevant to responsible investing
Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer:
- The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance -related bonus plan and valuable share schemes
- Generous pension contribution
- Life assurance
- Healthcare Plan (permanent employees only)
- At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years’ service. There’s also the option to buy and sell holiday
- Competitive family leave
- Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice (permanent employees only)
- There are many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online
- We’re creating net‑zero carbon workplaces by 2030 by investing in our sustainable, modern offices across the UK, all designed to bring people together and elevate the in‑person experience
Additional Information
At L&G, we believe it's possible to generate positive returns today while helping to build a better future for all.
If you join us, you’ll be part of a welcoming, inclusive culture, with opportunities to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds, views, and experiences. Guided by leaders with integrity who care about your future and wellbeing. Empowered through initiatives which support people to develop their careers and excel.
We care passionately about outcomes rather than attendance and are therefore open to discussing all kinds of flexible working options including part-time, term-time and job shares. Although some roles have limited flexibility due to customer demand, we accommodate requests when we can.
It doesn’t matter if you don’t meet every single criterion in this advert. Instead, think about what you excel at and what else you can bring in terms of strengths, potential and connection to our purpose.
