Sustainability and Climate Sales - Associate

Your Team Responsibilities

MSCI Sustainability and Climate is a fast growing business and our clients span some of the world's largest banks, hedge funds, pension funds and asset managers and corporate. In this exciting and dynamic environment, you are responsible as an MSCI Sustainability Sales for maintaining existing client relationships as well as new business developments. This Sales position is aimed at expanding and increasing the usage of the industry-leading suite of products and services that support the integration of environmental, social and governance (Sustainability) factors into investment decisions.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Achieve forecasted revenue, renewal and profitability goals
• Grow commercial relationships and execute up-sales with existing clients
• Identify opportunities and close sales to new prospects
• Ability to advice and consult clients and prospects on different Sustainability strategies, particularly Sustainability integration
• Undertake detailed revenue reporting and forecasting
• Grow networks and attend relevant industry events
• Work with the wider sales group to achieve cross-segment opportunities and synergies from information sharing and collaboration
• Communication of market developments to marketing and product team
• Support development of sales and support literature
• Monitor and manage customer satisfaction and retention for a demanding investor client group

Your skills and experience that will help you excel

• Recent experience in managing sales effort against a quantitative objective
• Excellent track record in developing new business and growing established revenue streams
• Experience in a commercial/sales position in financial services
• Good understanding of the Sustainability market and how Sustainability factors impact the investment process would be advantageous
• Experience of this within the SRI/Sustainability industries is a plus
• Excellent presentation and communication skills
• Excellent networking and inter-personal skills
• Advanced negotiation skills
• Absolute personal and business integrity
• Innovative, entrepreneurial, customer orientated thinker with strong consultative sales drive
• A team builder and player with emotional and professional maturity
• A commercially minded individual with drive and capacity to manage a dynamic, fast paced environment
• Oral and written fluency in English required

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. All Abilities, Asian Support Network, Black Leadership Network, Climate Action Network, Hola! MSCI, Pride & Allies, Women in Tech, and Women’s Leadership Forum.

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 is a leading provider of critical decision support tools and services for the global investment community. With over 50 years of expertise in research, data, and technology, we power better investment decisions by enabling clients to understand and analyze key drivers of risk and return and confidently build more effective portfolios. We create industry-leading research-enhanced solutions that clients use to gain insight into and improve transparency across the investment process.

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