Manager, Talent Acquisition (10-month contract)

  • Contract
  • Function: Human Resources

Company Description

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.

Job Description

As a Manager, Talent Acquisition, you will support recruitment activities for investment teams across North America including Real Assets, Private Equity, & Credit Investments. Leveraging your extensive experience and market insights, you will drive recruitment strategies, foster candidate relationships, and ensure alignment with organizational goals. Your expertise will be key in shaping the company's talent acquisition approach and building a skilled and diverse workforce to fuel business success.  You will report to the Director, Experienced Hires, Talent Acquisition and be based at the Toronto head office.

Core Accountabilities:

  • Lead end-to-end recruitment for a diverse range of roles across the investment teams including advising Hiring Managers on developing the recruitment strategy, managing the interview process with candidates, and leading the offer process and negotiation. 
  • Source, map, manage, and interview candidates at multiple levels for multiple businesses.
  • Identify core capabilities for successful hires and generate interview/candidate assessment content (interview guides and decision tools) to measure those capabilities/potential. 
  • Work with the senior leadership to ensure effective management of vendor relationships with search firms, staffing agencies and other business partners to generate high quality candidates, to promote our brand, and to deliver on a consistent and favourable candidate experience.
  • Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, hiring managers, and external partners, providing guidance and expertise on recruitment processes, candidate sourcing, and selection criteria to support strategic workforce planning.
  • Utilize data-driven insights and recruitment metrics to assess the effectiveness of talent acquisition initiatives, identify areas for improvement and execute on them, and lead initiatives focused on the optimization of recruitment processes and strategies.
  • Collaborating with colleagues to recruit across other investment groups and provide sourcing support for all roles across the investment teams.

Qualifications

  • University or college graduate with commitment to continued learning.
  • 8+ years of full-cycle recruitment experience preferably in a similar industry; banking, asset management, investment firm.
  • Experience with investment recruiting or banking would be preferred.
  • Proven track record of sourcing candidates via LinkedIn Recruiter and other sourcing tools.
  • Comfort building candidate talent maps and documents to research candidate market.
  • High degree of diplomacy, experience working with interview teams and managing up and across the organization.
  • Advanced candidate management and assessment skills with a proven track record of successful hires.
  • Advanced Proficiency with Microsoft Office and Applicant Tracking Systems.

Additional Information

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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.

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