Director of Sustainable Investing

Glenmede Trust Co•Philadelphia, PA

9d•Hybrid

About The Position

Empowering Financial Futures. For more than 65 years, Glenmede’s independent ownership, innovation and unwavering commitment to our clients have made us a trusted partner for private wealth, endowment & foundation, and investment management clients. Our people are invaluable. Through a team-oriented environment, your knowledge, expertise and varied backgrounds contribute to thoughtful innovation. Our culture fosters opportunities for continuous career growth and development in all areas of the organization. Working at Glenmede, you will experience the infrastructure and resources of a large firm combined with the client and employee focus of an independently owned boutique. This position will operate in a hybrid work environment, 3 days per week in the office ( Philadelphia, PA ). OVERVIEW: The Director of Sustainable Investing will lead Glenmede’s Sustainable Investing group, a firmwide capability within Investment Strategy & Research that serves private wealth, endowment & foundation, and institutional clients. This role advances the platform’s growth, visibility, and client impact by bringing together sustainable investing expertise, client engagement, thought leadership, and business development support. Glenmede has built a differentiated and established sustainable investing capability. The next phase of its development will emphasize enhancing business alignment: strengthening the connection between investment offerings, client implementation, thought leadership, and business priorities. The successful candidate will be a commercially oriented platform leader and sustainable investing subject-matter specialist, with the investment fluency needed to partner effectively with Manager Research and business-line investment teams. This individual will work closely with investment and client-facing professionals across all functions and departments, including manager research, portfolio management, relationship management, business development, marketing and legal. Additionally, this individual will develop and maintain industry relationships and will represent Glenmede internally and externally.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree.
10+ years of experience in investment management, wealth management, or a related field, including meaningful experience in sustainable, mission-aligned, or impact investing.
Demonstrated experience leading a platform, program, or investment capability across multiple stakeholders or business lines.
Experience in client-facing or advisory settings with sophisticated individual or institutional clients.

Nice To Haves

CFA, CAIA, CIMA, or comparable designation or advanced degree in a related field.
Investment familiarity and fluency, particularly with manager evaluation and multi-manager portfolio construction.
Practical business judgment, with the ability to balance client objectives, investment considerations, and firm priorities.
Established credibility and relationships within the sustainable investing industry.
Strong client-meeting presence and demonstrated ability to build trust.
Excellent written and oral communication skills, with a clear point of view and the ability to articulate a vision for the platform.
Emotional intelligence, humility, and a demonstrated ability to partner across investment, relationship management, and business development teams.
Experience defining and measuring business-line metrics.
Ability and willingness to travel as needed.

Responsibilities

Contribute the sustainable investing perspective to Glenmede’s investment platform, helping develop and refine the frameworks used to assess mission and values alignment and inform strategy evaluation and appropriate client utilization.
Partner with the Manager Research Group, and where appropriate business-line investment teams, contributing a sustainable investing perspective on strategies under evaluation for the platform.
Help establish and maintain clear definitions, decision frameworks, documentation standards, and governance, including the discipline around intended versus unintended deviation and return concession.
Ensure the platform is implementable and scalable, with appropriate escalation paths between relationship and portfolio management teams and the Sustainable Investing group.
Serve as a senior subject-matter expert in client and prospect meetings, particularly for complex, highly engaged, and mission-focused relationships.
Support relationship managers and portfolio managers in translating client mission, values, and investment objectives into portfolios.
Source opportunities through industry presence, centers of influence, and allocator-level conference access.
Hand off opportunities to Business Development for qualification, development, and conversion, and re-engage selectively where differentiated expertise supports closing.
Define and measure the platform’s contribution to the business using balanced metrics that distinguish sourcing, influence, development, and closing.
Advance Glenmede’s external presence and market perspective through thought leadership on sustainable and mission-aligned investing.
Connect published perspectives explicitly to capabilities Glenmede can deliver.
Represent the firm at conferences, with industry organizations, and in other external forums.
Lead and develop the Sustainable Investing team, fostering collaboration, accountability, and continued professional growth.
Steward established institutional infrastructure, including the Sustainable Advisory Council, the internal Guiding Coalition, and the Best Practices program, and extract increasing practical value from each.
Develop training, tools, and resources that help relationship and portfolio managers communicate sustainable investing capabilities with confidence.
Active engagement in department-specific and firm-wide initiatives to expand capabilities, create solutions to unmet business needs, improve client experience, or develop more efficient processes.
Contribute to the advancement of team, office, and business capabilities.
Participate in ad hoc projects requested by management.