Make an impact at a global and dynamic investment organization

When you invest your career in CPP Investments, you join one of the most respected and fastest growing institutional investors in the world. With current assets under management valued in excess of $500 billion, CPP Investments is a professional investment management organization that globally invests the funds of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) to help ensure long-term sustainability. The CPP Fund is projected to reach $3 trillion by 2050. CPP Investments invests in all major asset classes, including public equity, private equity, real estate, infrastructure and fixed-income instruments, and is headquartered in Toronto with offices in Hong Kong, London, Luxembourg, Mumbai, New York City, San Francisco, São Paulo and Sydney. 

CPP Investments attracts and selects high-calibre individuals from top-tier institutions around the globe.  Join our team and look forward to:

• Diverse and inspiring colleagues and approachable leaders
• Stimulating work in a fast-paced, intellectually challenging environment
• Accelerated exposure and responsibility
• Global career development opportunities
• Being motivated every day by CPP Investments’ important social purpose and unshakable principles
• A flexible/hybrid work environment combining in office collaboration and remote working
• A deeply rooted culture of Integrity, Partnership and High Performance

If you share a passion for performance, value a collegial and collaborative culture, and approach everything with the highest integrity, here’s an opportunity for you to invest your career at CPP Investments.

The Strategic Execution Function (SEF) well enhance CPP Investments’ strategy execution capabilities and facilitate the successful execution of strategic initiatives.​ The SEF will provide tools and support to initiatives and Accountable Executives, track progress and ensure impact is realized and oversee the successful execution of strategic initiatives within the SEF. The SEF will work to build lasting strategic execution capabilities and expertise within CPP Investments and, in doing so, accelerate the One Fund evolution and pursuit of CPP Investments’ ambition.​

The Director, Strategy Execution will report to the Managing Director, Strategy Execution and will support the following group activities:

• Contribute to the achievement of the One Fund strategy and overall ambition by enabling accountable executives to successfully executive complex strategic initiatives and helping to build strategy execution capabilities within CPP Investments more broadly.
• Enable the successful execution of strategic initiatives and programs, partnering with the program management team on delivery of key initiatives.
• Build the overall capacity of the organization to execute major initiatives through the development of tools and training that Departments can access for their own projects.
• Provide ongoing, comprehensive support and project leadership to accountable executives and the supporting project team for specific strategic initiatives to ensure success of these initiatives. This support is diverse and spans across the initiative’s lifecycle.
• Be responsible for the measurement of impact and value delivered by strategic initiatives, collaborating with other team members (e.g., program managers) to do so as appropriate. 
• As a relatively new function, this person will be a critical team member in building and strengthening our strategy execution capabilities for strategic initiatives and across the organization.
• Become the SEF’s subject matter expert in one of the areas needed to successfully execute projects (e.g., structured approaches to problem-solving), providing that expertise across various projects and determining how best to propagate that expertise through the Strategy Execution function and CPP Investments more broadly.
• Develop, maintain, and manage relationships with appropriate internal stakeholders, at all levels of the organization. Maintain a pulse on what SEF is doing well and areas of continuous improvement, based on feedback from internal & external stakeholders.

• Ability to provide sophisticated approaches to solutioning ambiguous problems, including testing various hypotheses to achieve agreed business outcomes, breaking down large problems into their component parts, and performing qualitative and quantitative analyses to enable decision-making.
• Able to analyse and synthesize complex information and identify key ‘so-whats’ that will drive progress on initiatives.
• Ability to communicate in verbal and written forms, complicated or complex information in digestible and easily understandable formats, in particular with senior leaders. Has confidence and courage to ensure that difficult decisions are made as necessary.
• Expert at stakeholder management, including determining how best to influence accountable executives and others in achieving desired outcomes.
• Has repertoire of tools and frameworks to contribute to the SEF Group and can deliver excellent user experience across stakeholders including senior management.
• Experience driving change management across an organization
• Deep strategic Problem-solving capabilities (e.g., overcoming barriers, suggesting creative solutions, identifying risks and possible mitigating approaches, and use of data and insight) and broad experience in stakeholder management will be required across a wide variety of initiatives, ranging from Talent, Investment Capabilities, to Technology Implementations.
• ~10 years experience in strategic project management and execution, managing change initiatives ideally at an enterprise level.
• Previous experience in management consulting is preferred. Experience in investment banking, or other financial service roles is helpful, but not required.

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At CPP Investments, we are committed to diversity and equitable access to employment opportunities based on ability.

We thank all applicants for their interest but will only contact candidates selected to advance in the hiring process. 

Our Commitment to Inclusion and Diversity:

In addition to being dedicated to building a workforce that reflects diverse talent, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and accessible experience. If you require an accommodation for any part of the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials, accessible meeting rooms, etc.), please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.

Disclaimer:

CPP Investments does not accept resumes from employment placement agencies, head-hunters or recruitment suppliers that are not in a formal contractual arrangement with us. Our recruitment supplier arrangements are restricted to specific hiring needs and do not include this or other web-site job postings. Any resume or other information received from a supplier not approved by CPP Investments to provide resumes to this posting or web-site will be considered unsolicited and will not be considered.  CPP Investments will not pay any referral, placement or other fee for the supply of such unsolicited resumes or information.