Investment Marketer | with a commercial, customer-first mentality
Company details
Finance change, change finance.
Triodos Investment Management (Triodos IM) is one of the most distinctive impact investment institutions in Europe. As a frontrunner in impact investment we believe how we invest defines the world we want to live in, recognizing the instrumental role and creative power of capital when used consciously. As a financial institution, we use money as a driving force towards a society that is humane, ecologically balanced and works for the benefit of all. For more than 40 years, we have offered impact investment solutions that connect investors who want to make money work for positive change with innovative entrepreneurs and sustainable businesses doing just that.
Job Details
Function
Join the growing community of people who want to make money work for positive change! To strengthen the Marketing & Communications team, we are searching for a financially minded and ambitious Investment Marketer (28h a week) with a commercial, customer-first mentality.
Profile
Marketing & Communications
To accelerate on our thought leadership and further improve the investor journey, the Marketing & Communications team manages activities for all stakeholders and investor audiences of Triodos IM. The areas of activity range from product positioning, brand campaigning and digital transformation, to customer journey optimization and content creation. Within this team, Investment Marketers are working on positioning Triodos IM’s funds and strategies to professional investors in international markets.
The Marketing & Communications team is part of the Commercial Department, which includes Business Development and Investor Relations, Client Services, Product Development, and Corporate Communications.
Your role as an Investment Marketer
The role of Investment Marketer is focused on positioning the organisation’s impact investment products and strategies consistently across multiple markets and channels and on anticipating the changing needs of investors and other stakeholders. This role is part of a sub-team consisting of four professionals, working closely with content specialists, investor relationship managers and other colleagues of the Commercial Department, as well as Product Management and Portfolio Managers and Analysts.
Your key responsibilities
- Design, refine and strengthen the marketing propositions for Triodos IM’s impact investment strategies and funds, focusing on UCITS funds and listed equity and bond mandates;
- Draft clear, concise, and intriguing input for RFP and DDQ responses;
- Demonstrate Triodos IM’s unique impact investment capabilities and track record through communication activities aimed at potential and existing investors;
- Collect market insights for the listed equity and bonds asset classes;
- Respond to one-off (potential) investor requests for product collateral or analysis;
- Contribute to (and over time participate in) external meetings with investors in the institutional and intermediary markets.
To thrive in this role, you will
- Understand Triodos IM’s brand strategy, competitive assets, and market position to demonstrate our unique impact investment capabilities as best-in-class in the asset management industry;
- Develop an expert understanding of the competitive landscape and keep up to date on industry news and the financial tools ecosystem;
- Keep abreast of investor sentiment and best practice in sustainable investing and remain tuned-into where the market is moving so we can stay ahead;
- Have a clear understanding of investors’ needs and what it takes to successfully distribute investment funds via intermediaries and to win institutional mandates.
This is you
- Personally connected to and represent the values and mission of Triodos;
- Experience in how marketing for asset management services works. Understand what makes a good impact investment proposition that “stands-out in the crowd”;
- Enjoy playing a key role in growing the business and putting investors’ needs first;
- Strong in writing as well as visual communication, making the complex simple;
- Experience and/or education in finance, investment management, marketing, econometrics, economics, or international business;
- Ability to manage projects from idea to completion, for example campaigns for new fund launches;
- Ability to juggle multiple tasks while meeting tight deadlines;
- Strong teamworking skills;
- Open, hands-on, energetic and inspiring person;
- Fluent in English (native level is helpful as this role requires sharp writing abilities) and Dutch (preferred).
You want to make a difference
Our first priority is impact – the difference is made by us as an investment manager and you as an Investment Marketer. We have an open and transparent corporate culture. We prioritize professional and personal development and believe in education and training. And that’s not all: Triodos offers good working conditions. Please check: https://www.triodos.com/en/about-triodos-bank/jobs/working-culture.
Offer
We are open to exploring both junior and senior candidates and encourage all years of working experience to apply. This function may evolve into a fulltime position.
The position is based in Driebergen-Rijsenburg, The Netherlands. The Investment Marketer reports to the Head of Marketing & Communications. Applicants must have or obtain a valid work permit for the European Union.
Interested?
Does your purpose align with our mission and do you feel a fit with the role of Investment Marketer in our team? Then we would like to meet you! For more information about this position, please contact Maurice Bölte (Head of Marketing & Communications) at maurice.boelte@triodos.nl
Please send your motivation letter and CV in English to Peter Klessens (Sr. HR Advisor) before 26 August 2020 via the 'Apply' button in this vacancy. The first round of interviews will be in the first week of September.
- Placed on:Fri 7 August 2020
- Location: Zeist
Triodos Bank N.V.
Nieuweroordweg 1
1234 AB Zeist
Netherlands