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, 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.

Role Summary: As a Managing Director, Strategy Execution, you will lead the strategic planning and execution of key business initiatives, driving operational excellence and organizational growth. You will collaborate with accountable executives and senior leadership to develop and implement comprehensive business plans, ensuring alignment with CEO priorities, corporate objectives and optimal resource allocation. You will also foster cross-functional partnerships to deliver key business outcomes, enhance efficiency and achieve long-term business goals.

Accountabilities & Qualifications: Core Accountabilities

• Provides strategic input into business decisions as a trusted advisor.
• Applies expertise and thinks creatively to address unique or ambiguous situations and to find solutions to problems that can be complex and non-routine.
• Conducts analysis required to inform strategic recommendations and considers the "big picture" when assessing whether or not a course of action is advisable in terms of the group and enterprise goals.
• Does not create unnecessary complexity
• Engage stakeholders across Enterprise to gather input / subject matter expertise and align on key insights and decisions to inform strategic planning / priorities.
• Leads the execution of strategic initiatives; assesses and adapts as needed to ensure quality of execution.
• Leads change management activities, ensuring cross business/group coordination and logistical support for the implementation of change.
• Monitors and tracks performance, and addresses any issues.

Strategic Development Approach Accountabilities

• Leverages a consultative approach to developing current state analysis (e.g., fact base, opportunity areas) and recommendations on strategic choices / trade-offs.
• Recommends business priorities, advises on resource requirements and develops roadmaps for strategic execution.
• Conducts analysis and research to provide context into the current state (e.g., industry trends, benchmarks) and inform future state priorities (e.g., financial modelling, best practices)
• Develops business cases by identifying needs, analyzing potential options and assessing expected return on investment.
• Breaks down strategic problems and analyzes data and information to provide insights and recommendations.
• May network with industry contacts to gather and identify competitive insights and best practices.

Delivery Accountabilities

• Leads implementation of strategic initiatives within group and across CPP Investments by partnering with various stakeholders as required; complexity of initiatives may vary and usually involve multiple stakeholders across the enterprise.
• Leads the execution of operational programs; assesses and adapts as needed to ensure quality of execution.
• Defines business requirements for analytics & reporting to ensure data insights inform business decision making.
• Collaborates across CPP Investments to develop communications strategies and ensure consistency of messaging, to positively influence or change behaviour.
• Acts as a relationship manager and ensures alignment to overall enterprise and group goals.
• Supports strategy execution by leading transformation roadmaps / programs to ensure disciplined delivery and successful change management.
• Collaborates with stakeholders to provide business context in the design, develop and implementation of programs & solutions.
• Builds change management plans of varying scope and type; leads or participates in a variety of change management activities including of change management activities including readiness assessments, planning, stakeholder management, execution, evaluation and sustainment of initiatives.
• Identifies enablers and key issues prior to and during implementation, raises issues with stakeholders and offers solutions to resolve issues or risks that jeopardize delivery.
• Implements changes in response to shifting trends.

Qualifications & Experience

• [8+] years of relevant experience in strategic transformation and execution, managing change initiatives ideally at the enterprise level.
• Previous experience in Consulting, Investment Banking or Investment Management, or other Financial service roles
• Demonstrated ability to inclusively lead and inspire.
• Experience working on complex projects or initiatives, understanding change and stakeholder management methodologies and other strategic frameworks.
• Ability to use innovative tools (including AI) to ensure risks and opportunities are identified and issues are raised.
• Applies AI-enabled analysis and automation tools to accelerate problem-solving, improve insights and strengthen decision quality across complex, cross-enterprise initiatives
• Ability to communicate in verbal and written forms complicated or complex information in digestible and easily understandable formats, with senior leaders. Has courage to ensure that difficult decisions are made as necessary.
• Confidence communicating and interacting with senior management, peers and other team members, internal and external stakeholders.
• Expert at stakeholder management, including determining how best to influence accountable executives and others in achieving desired outcomes.
• Deep strategic Problem-solving capabilities (e.g., overcoming barriers, suggesting creative solutions, identifying risks and possible mitigating approaches, and use of data and insight).
• 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. Importantly, able to contribute that problem-solving skill set across multiple types of strategic initiatives; has the strategic mindset to adapt approaches to a multitude of initiatives.
• Demonstrated analytical skills and the ability to think through problems and recommend solutions
• Able to analyse and synthesize complex information and identify key ‘so-whats’ that will drive progress on initiatives.
• Leverages innovative tools and frameworks to ensure risks and opportunities are identified and issues are resolved, including leading pre- and post-mortems for projects, identifying ways to address risks at the start of the initiative and identifying patterns of poor execution, to be addressed across initiatives for strategic initiatives.
• In-depth experience managing timelines on multiple concurrent initiatives, keeping managers and colleagues apprised of progress and seeking assistance as required.
• In-depth experience working with various data sets, conducting sophisticated data analytics, and synthesizing data and information across a diverse range of stakeholders.

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