Director, Legal

1 month ago

Toronto, Canada CPP Investments Full time

**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. With more than $600 billion in assets under management, CPP Investments is a professional investment management organization that globally invests the funds of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) to help ensure it is financially sustainable 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 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.

**Duties**:

- Overall responsibility for enterprise contracts including oversight, escalations, interpretation and disputes and final approvals
- Managing a team of three contract specialists
- Oversight of Contract Management System, including upgrades and enhancements (in partnership with Legal Operations team)
- Partnership model with departments with high volume of contracts
- Ownership of proposed AI redlining tool implementation (including review, selection and implementation)
- Responsible for partnering with procurement and ensuring cohesion between their work and the contract intake, review and approval system.
- Implementation of various Master Services Agreements with repeat vendors

**Qualifications**
**Requirements**:

- LL.B./LL.M/JD or equivalent required
- 8+ years of post-qualification corporate/commercial legal experience gained at a major law firm or in-house corporate legal department
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, including an ability to work cooperatively with many different stakeholders and ability to manage external counsel
- Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple competing priorities
- Ability to meet deadlines and work under pressure
- Motivated self-starter with the ability to work independently with mínimal supervision
- Flexibility and adaptability, including ability to negotiate and think on feet to resolve contractual impasses
- Professional conduct reflecting the quality of work, demeanor, ethical values and high standards of CPP Investments

**Additional Information**
Visit our **LinkedIn Career Page** or **Follow us **on** LinkedIn. #LI-PM1 #LI-Onsite**

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

**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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