Sustainability Analyst - W&R Sustainable Business Development

Assessing sustainability risks and performance of key companies and projects to enable informed decisions and engagement by relevant stakeholders.  

You and your job
Contributing to making Rabobank’s Wholesale & Rural business a frontrunner on sustainability. As a Sustainability Analyst in the W&R Sustainable Business Development team you can make a difference by leveraging your expertise to help your business colleagues better understand the sustainability performance of their clients, and thereby help our clients become more sustainable. As an expert in sustainability, you will play a key role in supporting the business in their engagement with clients on sustainability challenges, issues, risks and opportunities. A responsibility with impact, which you shape by being independent-minded, business-oriented and collaborative. 

Get results

• Conducting evidence backed and objective sustainability analysis of clients;
• Partnering with client owners in dialogues with clients on sustainability issues and impacts;
• Pro-actively identifying and supporting improvements in sustainability risk assessments, issue management and sustainability standards and policies.
  

Facts & Figures

• 36  hours per week;
• The Wholesale & Rural (W&R) Sustainable Business Development team is responsible for strategy setting, new sustainable business development opportunities, coordination, implementation, monitoring and acceleration of W&R’s sustainability ambitions worldwide and, as such, contribute to the realization of Rabobank’s group-wide Sustainability ambitions;
• 43,822 Rabobank colleagues around the world;
• Rabobank has 9.5 million customers around the world.
  

Top 3 responsibilities

• In line with the bank’s Sustainability ambitions, provide in-depth analysis of the sustainability performance of select global clients, or projects  by carefully weighing sustainability-related information from a wide variety of internal and external sources, such as client assessment information, internal policy documents, internal and third party research, and signals about incidents or reputational impacts in relation to our clients;
• Promoting and explaining the views and analysis on client sustainability performance and issues to client owners (relationship managers, senior bankers, credit risk advisors and credit decision-makers);
• Training and educating credit analysts and relationship managers on how to assess the sustainability risks and performance of their clients and how to translate this into high quality sustainability analysis as part of the credit analysis of their clients.
  

Together we achieve more than alone
We believe in the power of difference. Bringing together people's differences is what makes us an even better bank. So we are very curious about what you can bring to our team at Sustainable Business Development.

‘ I enjoy working in the Sustainability Analyst role because it's impactful, allowing me to leverage my sustainability expertise to Analyse Rabobank’s clients and support in steering them towards a sustainable future. Our team supports, learns from and challenges each other with a goal to improve.
Ananth Eragam, Sustainability Analyst

The 7 people in the sustainability analysts team provide the sustainability analysis for clients and projects, leverage the insights from the analysis to contribute to various projects for W&R SBD and provide trainings to the relevant business stakeholders. The ultimate goal of the team is to truly embed sustainability in our business. Our way of working includes co-creation, collaboration and working as 1 passionate team at Rabobank. Talking of Rabobank: We are a Dutch bank that operates in 38 countries for over 9,500,000 customers. Together with these customers, our members and partners we stand side by side to create a world in which everyone has access to enough healthy food.  In the Netherlands we work to create a country in which people are happy with how they live, work and do business.

You and your talent

• Bachelor or master degree;
• >3 years of experience in (credit) risk management or wholesale banking;
• Knowledge regarding methods to assess client sustainability performance and client-related sustainability issues and impacts is required;
• Excellent effective communication and writing skills, with English at professional level;
• Analytical skills and ability to combine information on a wide ranges of sustainability topics from various sources into balanced and spot-on analyses;
• Resilience: able to strike a balance between working by structured methods and the dynamics of business needs;
• Project management: able to work on multiple assessments in parallel, while planning workstreams, engaging with stakeholders, and writing assessments;
• Training: Experience with or interest in providing training and education to colleagues on sustainability topics.

This is what we offer you

• Up to € 6.130,- gross per month (scale 9);
• Thirteenth month's salary and 8% holiday allowance;
• An extra budget of 11% of your gross salary to be used at your discretion. Buy extra holiday hours, add more to your pension savings or ask for part of the extra budget to be paid out.

This is selection of the terms of employment for a Sustainability Analyst based on a 36-hour working week. This vacancy is for 36 hours per week.

You can find all our terms of employment on rabobank.jobs/en/conditions-of-employment.

You and the job application process
Reply to the vacancy for Sustainability Analyst at Rabobank before April 29.

• Any questions about the job content? Contact: Yoshita Arora +31 (6) 25 55 63 37 or Yoshita Arora, Head Sustainability Analysts W&R via +31 (6)25 55 63 37 or Yoshita.Arora@Rabobank.com;
• Any questions about working at Rabobank and the process? Contact Lonneke Boelens, Recruiter via +31 (6) 11 14 07 33 or Lonneke.Boelens@Rabobank.nl;  
• The application procedure consists of two (in-person or virtual) interviews (in the week of 6th and 13th May) and an individual online assessment;
• You can find answers to the most frequently asked questions on rabobank.jobs/en/faq;
• A security check is part of the process;
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