Sustainability & Impact Associate (Lyon, France)

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, 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 investments 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 over-arching sustainability and impact strategy and tools to : support the mission, vision and theory of change; helping ARCHIMED to evaluate potential investment products from an impact perspective; provide appropriate consistency across the diverse investment products and sectors of focus; and enable reporting to the firm’s investors on the impact being achieved by the Funds. - 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 with targets and milestones consistent with the materiality analysis conducted on the company and ensuring all products align and contribute to the overarching sustainability and impact strategy of ARCHIMED, partnering with third-party technical experts when necessary. - Empower and influence the management of portfolio companies of the strategies to advance the sustainability and impact roadmap, including the provision of technical guidance and support, through coaching and sharing of best practices. - Establish a ‘centre of excellence’ for impact and sustainability for all Funds and portfolio companies, developing tools and trainings to continuously share guidance and best practices. - Help coordinate and develop 'ARCHIMED statements' and minimum standards on specific impact or sustainability-related topics (ex: animal testing, stem cells, diversity & inclusion, human rights, etc.). - Work with all ARCHIMED functions to consistently review and improve the process for integrating impact and sustainability into investment decision making; the systems and processes to manage and to measure impact and sustainability progress through on-going monitoring; and the partnerships and processes to assure impact and report results to ARCHIMED's investors. - Establish tools and framework to collect, monitor, manage, and coordinate impact and ESG data from across Funds, allowing for timely, accurate and consistent reporting and providing an overview to improve Funds' management of sustainability strategies (including monitoring carbon footprint reduction strategies at portfolio and Fund levels and ensure consistency with ARCHIMED reduction targets), selecting and partnering with third-party technical experts when necessary. - Execute the data analysis and interpretation and produce the sustainability an