Investment Manager, Sustainable Ownership

We have a great opportunity for an Investment Manager to join our multi-award-winning Sustainable Ownership team for a 9 month FTC based in our London office (hybrid working).  

Railpen is responsible for the safekeeping and investment of around £34 billion in assets and the administration of several pension schemes, including the Railways Pension Scheme, one of the UK's largest and longest established pension funds.

Our heritage of looking after the pension needs of the rail industry and its employees gives us our name and our unique outlook on how we serve our members. Railpen takes a holistic view, focusing on how we serve members today and how we can positively impact the communities and the world they will retire into.

To learn more about Railpen including our values, culture and purpose, visit our LinkedIn Life page here.   

Within this role, you will be undertaking high-quality and insightful ESG research, risk advice, stewardship and other activities that make a decisive contribution to a range of asset classes and themes. By working with initiative and in collaboration with colleagues from across the business and at all levels, these actions help to secure members’ futures by identifying and managing the ESG risks and opportunities that matter most to financial outcomes for members. A key part of your role will be ensuring our ESG risk advice on public and private investments, both managed internally and by external asset managers, is evidence-based and impactful.

This role will likely be suitable for someone who already has an excellent track record of working in responsible investment, can pick up our ways of working quickly, deliver independently, and make positive contributions to our well-established team.

We’re looking for you to bring hands-on experience of working directly with asset managers, asset owners and service providers to help achieve sustainable ownership objectives. You will have a good understanding of investment practices across public and private markets, as well as of helping to design and implement engagement strategies on corporate governance and other issues. You’re adept at engaging with internal stakeholders and external asset managers, are skilled in bottom-up ESG analysis and engagement, and can confidently deliver ESG risk advice as part of multi-disciplinary processes.

The role will require you to juggle and lead on various projects while also being on top of the necessary detail, so a calm, analytical and solutions-focused approach is essential. And with the requirement to work with a wide variety of stakeholders at all levels, including external stakeholders, you need to evidence credibility and rigour alongside excellent written and verbal communication skills that take into account the needs and priorities of the audience to which you are speaking.

Our values of integrity, community and alignment are the guiding principles that influence our behaviour. They help us make decisions and shape our relationships with others. They’re what we stand for. You will actively demonstrate our values, helping to create a safe environment, to place the needs of the community above oneself and, through a culture of ‘fair challenge’, align to the best interests of our members. 

• A competitive salary

• 28 days annual leave, plus bank holidays (pro rata)

• Defined Contribution pension

• Employee assistance programme

• Health cash plan

• Eye care vouchers

• Flu vaccination

• Give as you earn scheme

• Paid volunteering days

Please apply for the apply button or visit Careers Page by 5pm on 24th March 2025.

Railpen is committed to creating an inclusive and diverse environment, we value diversity and welcome people from all backgrounds and walks of life.