Secondment: Managing Director, Strategy & Innovation, Private Equity

Company Description

Make an impact at a global and dynamic investment organization

When you join CPP Investments, you are joining one of the world’s most admired and respected institutional investors. As a professional investment management organization, CPP Investments invests the funds of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) to help ensure its financial sustainability for generations of working and retired Canadians.

CPP Investments invests across regions and asset classes to build a globally diversified portfolio. It holds assets in public equity, private equity, real estate, infrastructure, and fixed income, and the CPP Fund is projected to reach $3.6 trillion in assets by 2050. The organization is headquartered in Toronto with offices in Hong Kong, London, Mumbai, New York City, San Francisco, São Paulo, and Sydney.

CPP Investments successfully attracts, selects, and retains talented individuals from top-tier institutions worldwide. Join our team for access to:

• Stimulating work in a fast-paced and intellectually challenging environment
• Accelerated exposure and responsibility
• Global career development opportunities
• Diverse and inspiring colleagues and approachable leaders
• A hybrid-flexible work environment with an emphasis on in-person collaboration
• A culture rooted in principles of integrity, partnership, and high performance
• An organization with an important social purpose that positively impacts lives

If you have a passion for performance, value a collegial and collaborative culture, and approach work with the highest integrity, invest your career here. 

Job Description

As the Managing Director, Strategy & Innovation – Private Equity, you will lead the strategic vision and execution of transformational projects critical to the department’s success. Reporting directly into the Head of Strategy & Investment Management, this role is ideal for a senior investment professional who thrives at the intersection of investing, strategy, digital innovation, and cross-functional leadership.

The successful candidate will play a key role in strategic projects in portfolio construction and relative value assessment, aimed at enhancing investment decision-making and capital deployment effectiveness and updating and delivering against the PE digital roadmap to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency across existing and emerging tools and analytics.

Team Description

The Private Equity Strategy & Investment Management team plays a central role in shaping the long-term strategic direction of the PE department. The team drives capital planning, portfolio analytics, and industry research, while also advancing cross-functional initiatives and contributing to investment strategy development, reporting, and leadership communications.

Accountabilities:

• Provide thought leadership and analytical support for strategic initiatives around portfolio construction and relative value, contributing to departmental decision-making frameworks.
• Lead the identification and prioritization of improved investment analytics that will drive alpha across the portfolio and strategies, or drive efficiencies for the department and enterprise in partnership with the investment groups and the PE Strategy & Investment Management team.
• Partner with the investment groups to provide support, advice, and leverage.
• Drive the thought leadership and change management required with embracing new ways of working, including influencing and aligning senior stakeholders across the organization.
• Leverage your deep knowledge of the organization to navigate complexity, anticipate interdependencies, and surface opportunities for innovation.
• Leverage investment experience to effectively develop relationships, forums, and approaches that drive optimize analytics and efficiency
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners (e.g., Tech & Data, Risk, Finance, Operations, TFM/ OCIO,) to define, prioritize, and deliver data products that unlock the potential of PE’s proprietary data.
• Provide coaching and management of resources in the Strategy and Business Management team to further enhance and upgrade the overall team skills.
• Develop strategies and plans to enhance the partnership with business partners in evaluating the benefits, costs and risks associated with solutions and services.
• Ownership of the Private Equity department existing digital tools / products ongoing success, as well as leading the identification, prioritization and execution of future digital tools and enhancements
• Support the business case development in collaboration with relevant partners ensuring their product is funded and set up for success
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of the external digital tool landscape and continuously re-assess how PE can leverage existing tools / new tools to drive value

Qualifications

• Minimum 15 years of experience in the investment industry, with a strong preference for candidates with direct Private Equity or private capital markets experience.
• Proven experience working within CPP Investments and strong relationships across internal stakeholder groups.
• Deep understanding of the Private Equity business, including data usage in investment workflows, performance analytics, and portfolio management.
• Strong strategic thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex, cross-functional initiatives with senior-level visibility and influence.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills.
• Change management mindset with a focus on organizational adoption, engagement, and measurable business impact.
• Passionate about innovation, data, and improving decision-making in a world-class investment organization.
• Commitment to CPP Investments’ guiding principles of integrity, partnership, and high performance

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.