Sustainability & Impact Associate (Lyon, France) | (QIN919)
Madrid
EUR 30.000 - 50.000
With offices in the US, Europe and Asia, ARCHIMED is a leading investment firm focused exclusively on healthcare industries. Its mix of operational, medical, scientific and financial expertise allows ARCHIMED to serve as both a strategic and financial partner to North American and European healthcare businesses.
Prioritized areas of focus include Healthcare IT, MedTech, Pharma Services, Life Science Tools & Biologic Services, Biopharma Products, In Vitro Diagnostics, and Consumer Health. ARCHIMED helps partners internationalize, acquire, innovate and expand their products and services.
Over the last twenty years, ARCHIMED's leadership team has directly managed and invested in over eighty small to large-size healthcare companies globally, representing over €50 billion of combined value. ARCHIMED manages €7 billion across its various funds. Since inception, ARCHIMED has been a committed Impact Investor, both directly and through its EURÊKA Foundation.
With investments dedicated to the healthcare sectors, ARCHIMED aims to advance sustainable global healthcare industries through impactful investing and contribute to the sustainable development goal (SDG) 3 'Good health and Well Being'. ARCHIMED's investment goals remain to improve health outcomes at all levels by building resilient sustainable healthcare industries and as such, ARCHIMED has classified its new fund MP II as a Sustainable fund under Article 9 (SFDR). We are seeking an experienced, motivated, values-driven associate/senior associate to join the Sustainability & Impact Team.
The Team
* An international team (British, French, German, Italian, Polish...) with complementary education and experience in the investment, medical, scientific, strategic and operational sectors.
* Composed of alumni from: INSEAD, Berkeley, Georgetown, Bocconi, HEC Paris, Ponts et Chaussées, ESSEC, Imperial College, Dartmouth, etc.
* Professional backgrounds: Private Equity (3i, Siparex, USS Ltd, Barings, capiton), Consulting (A.T. Kearney, Bain, McKinsey), M&A (Lazard, EY, KPMG, PwC), Industry (Biotronik, Cerba, Pharmacy, Veterinary).
You will report and work closely with the Head of Sustainability and Impact and will work in team spirit with a senior analyst and a junior analyst. This role will be based in Lyon, France.
Your Role
* Support the creation and development and optimize ARCHIMED's overarching sustainability and impact strategy and tools to support the mission, vision and theory of change.
* Help inform the Investment Committee: guide, challenge and review the impact analysis and thesis conducted by the investment teams pre-investment.
* Support the creation and deployment of ARCHIMED's Impact MedSeg, to help prioritize investment in higher-impact sub-sectors.
* Monitor regulatory updates in ARCHIMED's locations and sectors of focus and contribute to ensure compliance with all sustainability-related requirements.
* Support the creation and oversee execution of concrete, actionable sustainability and impact roadmaps for each portfolio company.
* Empower and influence the management of portfolio companies to advance the sustainability and impact roadmap.
* Establish a ‘centre of excellence' for impact and sustainability for all Funds and portfolio companies.
* Help coordinate and develop 'ARCHIMED statements' and minimum standards on specific impact or sustainability-related topics.
* Work with all ARCHIMED functions to consistently review and improve the process for integrating impact and sustainability into investment decision making.
* Establish tools and framework to collect, monitor, manage, and coordinate impact and ESG data from across Funds.
* Execute the data analysis and interpretation and produce the sustainability and impact reports at the corporate level.
* Contribute to manage the relationships with external partners to support the firm's sustainability and impact practice.
* Maintain an understanding of international best practice on impact management.
* Provide expert guidance and sustainability and impact training for management, investment, and investor relations teams.
* Establish and manage a sustainability roadmap at corporate level across ARCHIMED offices.
* Participate in, develop and support enhancement of the firm's reporting, sustainability and impact frameworks.
Requirements
Aptitudes and Skills we look for:
* Demonstrate a minimum of 4-6 years' experience building and executing sustainability strategies preferably within financial institutions.
* Demonstrate concrete results of sustainability-related initiatives and strategies implemented.
* Knowledge and understanding of key frameworks and metrics in impact measurement methodologies.
* Previous experience or understanding of impact in healthcare and/or in the healthcare industries is an advantage.
* Strong understanding of a range of frameworks and regulations.
* Knowledge and experience in TNFD and biodiversity frameworks are a plus.
* Strong analytical and methodological skills.
* Ability to engage with all functions, investment teams, management of portfolio companies and LP clients.
* Demonstrable capability for independent judgment.
* Proven team player with demonstrable capability of mentoring junior staff.
* Possess a genuine curiosity about the business.
* Demonstrable commitment to impact investing and the values of ARCHIMED.
* Strong organizational skills.
* Very well-organized and fast learner.
* Team player with a collaborative mindset.
* Solution-focused with a positive constructive mind-set.
* Excellent relationship, communication and presentation skills.
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