Sustainability Product Specialist

The Apex Group was established in Bermuda in 2003 and is now one of the world's largest fund administration and middle office solutions providers. Our business is unique in its ability to reach globally, service locally and provide cross-jurisdictional services. With our clients at the heart of everything we do, our hard-working team has successfully delivered on an unprecedented growth and transformation journey, and we are now represented by over circa 13,000 employees across 112 offices worldwide.

About Holtara: Holtara is one of the fastest growing ESG and sustainability services providers in Europe, experiencing triple digit growth over the past 36 months. Our team consists of approximately 150 people from various backgrounds across Spain, the Netherlands, UK, US, South Africa and India - all driven by the ambition to make a real impact. What is unique about Holtara is that it includes a best-in-class sustainability reporting solution, as well as a large team of experts that can guide companies and investors with their strategies.

Our ESG and sustainability reporting solution - launched in 2019 - is a business-to-business Software as a Service platform that allows investors and the companies they invest in to assess their sustainability, collect key indicators, calculate their carbon footprint, and define action plans to improve their sustainability performance over time. The platform is particularly suited for the private equity markets, helping investors, fund managers and their portfolio companies comply with the sustainability reporting frameworks (such as the SFDR, EDCI, TCFD and ISSB) that are driving the industry towards a more sustainable state.

The role: As a Product Specialist, you will work within the Product Team to understand the needs of the financial markets, and companies within them, to build and maintain content for our platform products, with a focus on advanced ESG and sustainability datasets and impactful reporting outputs. Examples could be to develop data collection, analysis and reporting content that leads to companies and investors improving their sustainability performance, as well as exploring the potential for AI to support them in their sustainability journey.

Product Specialists are expected to be passionate about sustainability and motivated by creating smart solutions that make a difference. Furthermore, our Product Specialists bring subject matter expertise and project management best practices. They can steer the team in gathering requirements through research, task prioritisation based on client needs, and creating prototypes of sustainability datasets and outputs.

This is a client-facing role, where you will interact with leading investment managers across the globe to solve their sustainability challenges. You will contribute to the entire product development lifecycle from design to launch and collaborate with various internal stakeholders, including our in-house consultants, development teams, designers, sales and marketing teams, and customer support, to ensure that our platform exceeds customer expectations, driving business growth and real-world impact.

Responsibilities:

• Fully understand sustainability-related regulations and reporting frameworks and industry trends, keeping on top of latest updates and best practices in ESG and sustainability.
• Conduct market and competitor analysis to identify market trends, client needs, and opportunities for product improvement.
• Define the subject matter strategy based on market research, customer feedback, and business goals.
• Translate the strategy and subject matter knowledge into actionable content requirements and specifications, creating easily understandable questionnaires, useful datasets and impactful outputs on the Holtara platform.
• Conduct client engagements - from pitches to product configurations - and gather actionable client feedback to continuously improve the product.
• Ensure our content database is of high quality, intelligently structured and stays relevant in the evolving ESG and sustainability landscape.
• Participate in product development processes, including prioritization, planning, review and retrospectives.
• Collaborate with the product management team to develop go-to-market strategies, product positioning, and messaging.

Skills & Experience:

• Bachelor or Master's degree in a relevant field or equivalent work experience.
• At least 4 years of experience in the ESG and sustainability industry, preferably in research, consultancy or software development.
• Knowledge and experience with ESG and sustainability reporting frameworks - such as ISSB, SFDR, TCFD, EDCI, etc - is desirable but not a requirement.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to gather and interpret both qualitative and quantitative data to develop datasets and data-driven outputs.
• Ability to work with large datasets and transform unstructured data into well-organized databases and useful reporting outputs.
• Excellent English communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to articulate technical details in a clear and concise manner to internal and external stakeholders.
• Passionate about sustainability and motivated to help clients create positive impact, with an interest in how technology can support this objective.
• Self-motivated and proactive, with the ability to work independently and adapt to changing priorities.
• Strong organisational and time management skills, with the ability to manage multiple tasks and projects simultaneously.
• Proactive and inclusive attitude to working with others across multiple teams, seniorities and geographies.