Research Project Manager

For more than 25 years, Sustainalytics has focused on delivering high-quality, analytical environmental, social and governance (ESG) research, ratings and data to institutional investors and companies.

Our research is empowering world’s leading institutional investors to identify, understand, and manage risks and opportunities from an ESG perspective.

Our Corporate Solutions unit works with hundreds of companies and their financial intermediaries to help them consider sustainability in policies, practices, and capital projects.

To learn more information about us, please visit our website.

Qualifications
• At least two-to-three years of relevant work experience in financial services/ ESG research or project management role in which project management and data analysis skills were build.
• Experience in coordinating medium projects including stakeholder management and communicating with other project teams;
• Certifications from relevant trainings such as project management, quality management or business analysis are a plus;
• A demonstrated ability to independently solve ambiguous problems;
• Effective in partnering with leadership to promote a collaborative and high performing environment;
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple workflows within a dynamic work environment;
• Ability to clearly explain features or acceptance requirements during refinement/requirements gathering and to lead demo sessions to users and stakeholders;
• Strong interpersonal, communication and writing skills;
• Has advance skills/is eager to learn one or more of Excel and Power BI.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
• Develop a deep understanding of projects to gain insights into the scope of service delivery;
• Plan and schedule project goals, milestones, and deliverables across internal stakeholders to ensure that project tasks are completed on schedule with high quality;
• Building strong relationships with teams and stakeholders to enable effective dialogue exchange between various teams;
• Identify project issues and address project blockers effectively. Lead efforts to manage and support conflict resolution across priorities and teams;
• Identify process digitalization opportunities based on process understanding and available technologies/tools;
• Recommend methods of improvement and seeing that actions are implemented on time for service delivery upgrades;
• Develop means and methods of capturing, processing, analyzing, and reporting on the current process performance;
• Provide issue metrics and management reporting to Senior Leadership and other stakeholders;
• Work to develop and support data quality reporting dashboards;
• Develop and maintain processes guidance documents, process maps and workflow charts;