Quant Consultant: Quant & Index Solutions
Are you passionate about using modelling to solve investment as well as sustainability challenges? Do you combine modelling skills with a consultancy mindset, and are you drawn to make a difference for our investment teams? Then this consultant vacancy at APG Asset Management will suit you!
About the Role
APG Asset Management is seeking a Quant Consultant to join our Quant & Index Solutions team—APG’s independent center of excellence for quantitative and index expertise.
Our mission is to deliver high-quality analytical and research-driven solutions that empower our investment teams and support APG’s ambition to be a digitalized, long-term responsible investor.
Our team plays a pivotal role in designing and managing customized indices and models that underpin APG’s investment strategies, directly influencing client returns and responsible investment (RI) objectives.
What We Do
The Quant & Index Solutions team blends advanced quantitative research with deep index expertise. We collaborate closely with APG’s clients and global investment teams to translate complex, often unstructured investment challenges into robust quantitative or index-based solutions.
Our services include:
- Custom Benchmark Indices tailored to client-specific ESG, liquidity, or factor preferences.
- Advisory Services on index construction and responsible investing.
- Models as a Service (MaaS) – full lifecycle model development and management.
As index investing becomes an increasingly strategic discipline at APG, our team supports over €150 billion in assets across developed and emerging markets, spanning listed equity and fixed income.
Your Responsibilities
As a Quant Consultant, you will:
Modeling Services
- Collaborate with researchers and investment teams to deliver modeling services across the full model lifecycle: from consultancy and development to maintenance and support.
Multi-Disciplinary Teams (MDTs)
- Represent Quant & Index Solutions in MDTs, advising stakeholders on RI policy developments and ensuring alignment with client ambitions.
Quantitative Expertise
- Serve as a trusted advisor on responsible index investing, offering insights into market trends and client-specific solutions.
- Contribute to APG’s digitalization roadmap by applying alternative data, machine learning, and AI in portfolio management.
- Help build a knowledge base of innovative research techniques and their practical applications.
Qualifications
- Advanced academic background (Master’s or PhD) in Economics, Econometrics, Mathematics, Data Science, or a related field.
- Proven expertise in quantitative modeling, index/portfolio construction, and capital markets (equities and fixed income).
- Solid quantitative programming skills with 3+ years of experience working with programming languages such as R and Python, and data platforms such as Factset and Bloomberg.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to translate complex models into actionable insights.
- Deep understanding of ESG integration, index industry trends, and regulatory standards in asset management.
What we offer you
We will offer you, depending on relevant knowledge and experience, a gross salary in the range of 5931 - 8473 EUR based on full-time employment and great employment conditions aimed at flexibility, such as:
- A guaranteed end of year bonus of 8.33%
- Attention to your vitality and personal development
- Possibility to work from home 2-3 days per week
- And obviously a well-managed pension
Where you will work
For pension provider APG, pension is about people, life, and living together. With careful asset management, pension administration, communication and advice, we work on a livable future for current and future generations. One in which we share prosperity and well-being fairly and sustainably. Now and later.
APG is committed to around 4.5 million people in the Netherlands, which is why we believe it is important to be a reflection of Dutch society. This means that APG strives for an inclusive work environment, in which everyone can be themselves and where your unique qualities are embraced.
When you choose to work at APG, you're choosing a job where you contribute to a bright future. And that's not all. You're also choosing the best employer in the Netherlands in the financial sector! Curious why APG scored so well in the Randstad Employer Brand Research? Check out the article and apply now!
More information
Get in touch with Sarah Beckers via +31658859810 or sarah.beckers@apg.nl or Fares Ben Ghachem via fares.ben.ghachem@apg-am.nl who can tell you more about the specifics of the position.
Do you see your future at APG? Apply no later than 11/06/2025 and let yourself be seen.
We do not appreciate acquisition in response to this vacancy.