Manager, Investor Outreach

Permanent employee, Full-time · London

About The Role

This role sits within the Investor Outreach team that is responsible for leading FAIRR’s global investor engagement strategy, managing key investor relationships, identifying new partnership opportunities, and driving member recruitment and retention. This includes representing FAIRR at high-profile events, delivering thought leadership, and supporting targeted outreach to key investor segments, including asset owners and fixed income investors. The team ensures that financial materiality is embedded into FAIRR's offering drives value for investors.

This role will focus on strengthening relationships with specific investor categories and within the European markets and the Investor Outreach Manger will play an essential role in delivering this by identifying and engaging investors, building and maintaining strong relationships by working collaboratively.

Key Responsibilities

Relationship Management and Expansion

Manage the key investor relationships in your priority regions (e.g. European markets), adapting FAIRR’s offer to fit their specific needs and priorities.
Lead one-on-one meetings and broader investor interactions to increase awareness of ESG risks and opportunities in the food system.
Strengthen ties with existing members, ensuring active participation and expanding connections within their organisations including expanding new contacts within member teams to reach more quantitative, thematic and portfolio management teams
Collaborate with FAIRR colleagues to align investor insights with internal efforts, encouraging integration of market trends into FAIRR’s tools, data, and themes.

Strategy Development and Execution

Implement and execute the strategy set by the Director of Outreach (by creating and delivering a work plan)
Work with the Director of Outreach and other Outreach team colleagues to input into the membership engagement strategy
To deliver an excellent membership journey and member experience with FAIRR
Help raise awareness of ESG materiality in the food sector (especially protein value chains) and promote ESG integration into investment practices.
Support the strategy for deepening engagement with investor groups in specific European countries and raising FAIRR’s visibility among investor categories like asset owners and fixed-income investors.

Member Experience

Recommend improvements to enhance member engagement and tailor FAIRR’s messaging and activities to investor needs.
Contribute to refining the member journey and improving the team’s ability to deliver value, using feedback to shape products and monitor relationship strength.

Communication and External Representation

Represent FAIRR at relevant financial and sustainability events to raise the organisation’s profile within the investment industry and share research and updates.
Act as a FAIRR ambassador—speaking at events and engaging with media and stakeholders to build brand awareness.
Event Management - organising events / meetings with Investors

Training and Development

Support team training to ensure that team members understand and deliver consistent and effective membership experiences in relation to ongoing engagements and communication.
Create educational resources and programs to build investor understanding of sustainability in the food system and FAIRR’s focus areas.

Administration: Document Preparation, , Reporting, Database Administration of the CRM (Salesforce)

Prepare customised communications for specific investors, including materials for different asset classes and case studies.
Contribute to board-level reports that provide MI and updates on Outreach achievements, risks and progress.
Undertake database administration by ensuring that you capture and record your investor interactions on FAIRR’s CRM system (Sales Force)

Travel

Willingness to travel internationally, particularly within European markets.

Essential Criteria

Strong experience in relationship management, networking, and business development—ideally in the financial or consulting sectors.
Confident leading meetings and pitches with investment professionals, corporates, and policymakers.
Solid understanding of global capital markets and how different investment roles use ESG data and research.
Collaborative team player with sharp analytical thinking and commercial awareness.
Highly organised with strong time management and project management skills with the ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment under minimal supervision
Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent).
Advanced proficiency in MS Office (especially PowerPoint and Word); experience using databases such as a CRM

Desirable Criteria

Background in investment or financial services.
Skilled public speaker with experience participating in events and media engagements.
Prior experience organising events
Familiarity with responsible investing
Established networks among major asset owners.
Passion for sustainable finance and driving positive change through investment.
Understanding of food systems and the relevant themes (e.g.one or more of the following climate, nature, water, aqua culture, working conditions or anti biotic use in food) and the dynamics between stakeholders in food supply chains.
Excellent written and verbal communication in English with the ability to adapt communication style to be tailored to the audience
Additional language(s) beyond English
Experience working across global market - with cultural sensitivity
Master’s degree or investment-related qualification.
Previous experience with SalesForce specifically

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About us

The FAIRR (Farm Animal Investment Risk & Return) Initiative was established in 2015 by the Jeremy Coller Foundation. The FAIRR Initiative is the fastest-growing ESG investor network with more than 400 investor members representing over $70 trillion in combined assets to leverage capital markets and drive positive change across the global food sector. FAIRR focuses on raising awareness of the key environmental, social, and governance (ESG) risks and opportunities impacting the protein value chain. Visit the FAIRR website for more information: www.fairr.orgller Foundation (JCF) is a private foundation based in London and operating globally.

The Jeremy Coller Foundation (JCF), established in 2002, is the philanthropic vehicle of Jeremy Coller, Chair and Chief Investment Officer of Coller Capital, a leading private equity secondaries business. The Jeremy Coller Foundation is a strategic grant-making organisation with two primary focus areas. First, the Foundation is working to further venture and management education, partnering with Tel Aviv University on the Coller Institute of Venture and the Coller School of Management. Second, the Foundation seeks to address animal welfare, environmental and human health issues caused by intensive animal agriculture. You can learn more on the JCF website: www.jeremycollerfoundation.org.

WHY JOIN US?

Working for FAIRR provides the opportunity to be part of something big! As a purpose-led organisation, we offer a role that allows you to make an impact on people and the planet through our work on sustainable food systems. Our team is building for the future. We are a fast-paced organisation, offering a place to learn, do great things with great people, and have the autonomy to make decisions that spark and manifest real change.

FAIRR is comprised of several expert teams: Thematic Research & Engagements, Data & Research, Policy, Investor Outreach, Communications & Marketing, People & Culture. Our teams have grown rapidly but are still small enough to be innovative due to agility and collaboration. Teamwork and strong working relationships are key to our culture and enable a high level of trust within the team. All of this makes FAIRR a fantastic place to work to achieve real impact in the Global Food system – our goals are ambitious and exciting!

FAIRR’s culture is one of autonomy and responsibility, enabling skill development and career growth. Our team are supported and given stretch opportunities through our collaborative engagements with investors and the work we do with corporates producing innovative tools, data and research. You will have the opportunity to work on a range of high-profile topics to grow your expertise.

We are located in a modern office near Marble Arch.

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