Head of Sustainability & Thought Leadership, EVP

Reports to:  EVP, Global Head of Client Impact

Department/ Division:  Client Impact

Location:  Boston preferable; Open to major EMEA locations

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Position Overview

The Head of Sustainability and Thought Leadership is responsible for leading and executing Sustainability priorities and in bringing a ‘One State Street’ approach to strategic thought leadership, in support of our purpose to help create better outcomes for the world’s investors and the people they serve. This role will interface with some of our most sophisticated clients, including chief investment officers, on matter related to Sustainability as well as adjacent topics including how State Street can support their operating model objectives. This role will have accountability for ensuring a cohesive and relevant State Street Thought Leadership agenda with leadership of the editorial board, informing and defining our global thought leadership priorities and agenda,  which will include alignment with SSGA, SSA, marketing and Corporate.

The Head of Sustainability & Thought Leadership will also be instrumental in developing a new model capitalizing on the success in the Middle East to provide training to our clients on the fundamentals of our business, with an ambition to develop this into a commercial opportunity and expand into new regions.  This senior leadership position is a member of the Client Impact Leadership team and requires a strong understanding of and fluency with the financial services industry and the ability to understand changing market dynamics and translate them into actionable strategy. Success for this role will be measured by client loyalty, improved client sentiment around State Street Thought Leadership and marketing campaign success as measured by revenue growth and brand awareness.

Responsibilities & Tasks Include:

Thought Leadership

• Strong partnership with SSA and SSGA in leading the editorial board which will bring the best of each organizations thought leadership together to collectively prioritize how and when we best position key topics in the interest of our clients and the industry

• Develop a targeted and personalized strategic approach to Thought Leadership with our clients across Investment Services

• In close cooperation with marketing, develop thought leadership to fuel our revenue focused campaigns across all regions and build our brand awareness

• Bring One State Street view to clients with the aim of driving thematic content that further differentiates and establishes our reputation in the market in areas of strategic importance

• Serve as primary contact for thought leadership communication with senior team and business partners, providing regular updates and soliciting involvement as appropriate

• Develop and implement content strategies that elevate our brand and engages our audiences in our differentiated message

• Leverage research and stakeholder perspectives to strengthen partnerships and develop content in line with reputational aspirations

• Enable executive platform themes with differentiated research and white papers and help determine  the themes our executives’ present at tier 1 events

• Engage in joint research with academic and industry partners

• Showcase industry experts with targeted interviews and roundtables

• Set and deliver outcome-based Thought Leadership key results and measure and track against key KPIs

• Lead a thought leadership and content development team dedicated to generating content and manage resources to deliver a robust presence in an efficient and timely manner

• Review thought leadership content from inception to publication

• Represent investment thought leadership content in various forums as warranted- in person delivery, as well as written - client advisory boards, client events, social media and other

Sustainability

• Strategy:

  • Advise senior leaders with respect to our longer t