VP Active Ownership

Together we fight for everyone’s opportunity for a better financial future.

We will do this together — with customers, partners and colleagues. We will fight for others, not against: We will stand up for and champion everyone’s access to opportunities. The status quo is not good enough … we believe every individual and every community deserves access to financial opportunities. We are determined to support both individuals and communities in reaching a better financial future.  We know that reaching this future depends on our actions today.

Like our Purpose Statement, Voya believes in being bold and committed to action.  We are committed to a work environment where the differences that we are born with — and those we acquire throughout our lives — are understood, valued and intentionally pursued. We believe that our employees own our culture and have a responsibility to foster an environment where we all feel comfortable bringing our whole selves to work. Purposefully bringing our differences together to positively influence our culture, serve our clients and enrich our communities is essential to our vision.

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Get to Know the Opportunity

The Active Ownership team plays several important roles in the success of Voya IM’s ability to help our clients meet their investment goals, and to contribute to Voya’s ESG program.  Each year, the Active Ownership team researches and votes thousands of public company shareholder meetings and conducts engagement meetings with many of our portfolio companies on behalf of our Voya mutual funds’ shareholders and our institutional investors’ accounts managed by Voya IM.  Active ownership is key to giving our clients a voice in the governance of their portfolio companies.  Many of the issues that the team researches, votes, and engages on relate to events and issues currently in the news at companies around the world.

In addition to engaging with public companies as well as researching and voting proxies, the team provides active ownership expertise to stakeholders across Voya, works closely with various departments to ensure we satisfy our clients’ active ownership expectations, and oversees our service providers. The key responsibilities of this role are:

• Demonstrate expertise on matters effecting active ownership activities including corporate governance, sustainability, corporate strategy, and financial performance.
• Exhibit strong leadership, teamwork, and accountability.
• Stay well-informed of emerging ESG trends and regulatory matters affecting active ownership.
• Prioritize the needs of both internal and external clients, delivering exceptional client services and fostering strong relationships.
• Prepare for, lead (as needed), analyze, and document outcomes of engagement meetings with portfolio companies.
• Update (as needed) Voya IM’s global proxy voting and engagement policies to ensure the policies reflect current voting matters.
• Ensure ballots are voted in accordance to the proxy voting policy.
• Liaise with investment analysts to implement Voya IM active ownership policies, including engagement priorities and vote recommendations.
• Prepare and present (as needed) material for the proxy voting committees and board of directors.
• Collaborate with and assist in leading the team to identify ways to improve policies and business processes.
• Respond to client requests for active ownership activity and outcomes.
• Oversee the account maintenance platforms to ensure accounts are set up correctly for voting and reporting.
• Exhibit strong leadership and teamwork.
• Manage members of the Active Ownership team; holding self and team members accountable.

Please Note: This position allows remote work from home but will require travel to our Voya office as business requires.  If you are located near a Voya office, you will be required to operate on a hybrid work basis. Details of this will be explained with your manager.

The Contributions You'll Make:

• Oversee and assist in preparing for engagement meeting with senior representatives of portfolio companies, including scheduling, compiling research and supporting materials, and creating meeting documentation that highlights key and historical data.
• Actively foster the growth and development of the team members.

• Attend, document and lead (as needed) engagement efforts, including meeting notes, outcomes, and key take-aways.
• Prepare engagement meetings summaries to be shared with investment analysts, proxy committees, and mutual fund board of directors.