Global Stewardship Team, Vice President, Investment Management

Company Profile: Morgan Stanley is an industry leader in financial services, known for mobilizing capital to help governments, corporations, institutions, and individuals around the world achieve their financial goals. At Morgan Stanley India, we support the Firm's global businesses, with critical presence across Institutional Securities, Wealth Management and Investment management, as well as in the Firm's infrastructure functions of Technology, Operations, Finance, Risk Management, Legal and Corporate & Enterprise Services. Morgan Stanley has been rooted in India since 1993, with campuses in both Mumbai and Bengaluru. We empower our multi-faceted and talented teams to advance their careers and make a global impact on the business. For those who show passion and grit in their work, there's ample opportunity to move across the businesses. Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunities employer. We work to provide a supportive and inclusive environment where all individuals can maximise their full potential. Our skilled and creative workforce is comprised of individuals drawn from a broad cross section of the global communities in which we operate and who reflect a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives and experiences. Our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion is evident through our constant focus on recruiting, developing and advancing individuals based on their skills and talents.

Overview: This senior leadership role combines end-to-end oversight of MSIM's global proxy voting operations with responsibility for helping to build a scalable in-house proxy research capability. The role will lead operational delivery, controls, data quality, vendor and platform management, and continuous improvement across the voting lifecycle, while partnering closely with stewardship, investment, legal, compliance, risk, operations and technology teams. The role requires a hands-on individual who can manage day-to-day delivery, lead, coach and develop team members, exercise sound judgement on complex issues and help design the people, processes, data and technology capabilities required for the future.

1. Global Proxy Voting Operations •  Lead the end-to-end global proxy voting operating model, ensuring timely, accurate and controlled ballot receipt, meeting and agenda processing, vote instruction, transmission, confirmation, reconciliation, record-keeping and reporting. •  Direct day-to-day delivery across the proxy operations team, including peak-season capacity planning, workload allocation, quality assurance, issue resolution, training and performance support. •  Act as the senior escalation point for operational exceptions, including missing or rejected ballots, record-date and position breaks, split-vote requirements, share-blocking and power-of-attorney markets, late instructions and platform outages. •  Partner with portfolio managers, stewardship colleagues, legal, compliance and risk teams to manage conflicts, sensitive or complex votes and market-specific requirements, ensuring decisions and escalations are appropriately documented. •  Own the operational control framework, including procedures, service-level standards, key risk and performance indicators, reconciliations, exception reporting, audit trails, business continuity and support for internal or external reviews. •  Manage relationships with custodians, sub-custodians, voting agents and data providers; oversee service reviews, platform configurations, testing, issue remediation, contractual obligations and vendor performance. •  Lead process improvement and automation initiatives, translating business requirements into scalable workflows and partnering with technology and data teams through design, testing, implementation and post-launch review. 2. In-House Proxy Research & Capability Build-Out •  Co-develop and execute the multi-year strategy to increase MSIM's proprietary proxy research capability and reduce