Director, Strategy Execution

3 weeks 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.

The Strategic Execution Function (SEF) has a dual mandate to 1. Enable the successful execution of strategic initiatives, by providing tools and support, while tracking progress and impact. and 2. Support the Fund through building world class strategy execution capabilities, by developing expertise within CPPIB.

As a 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**
- Provide ongoing, comprehensive support and project leadership to accountable executives and the supporting project team for specific strategic initiatives to ensure their success. Provide appropriate frameworks and facilitation to ensure clearly defined Business outcomes and OKRs; lead the development of the approach to the initiative, identify potential risks, develop work plans and lead any Request for Proposal process if necessary.
- Employ strategic problem-solving, risk identification, stakeholder engagement and guidance to senior leaders for effective decision-making throughout the project, both using appropriate tools and frameworks, facilitation, and leading substantive analysis on key topics.
- Responsible for the measurement of impact and value delivered by strategic initiatives, collaborating with other team members to do so. Develop communications for relevant Steering Committees, ensuring transparency and alignment with strategic goals, articulation of known risks and/or ways to strengthen achievement of business outcomes.
- Critical team member in building and strengthening our strategy execution capabilities for strategic initiatives and across the organization. Make recommendations on tools, frameworks and approaches the SEF should be adopting, and lead implementation of specific efforts to advance the team’s strategy execution capabilities, alongside success metrics.
- Foster strong partnerships with various internal stakeholders, departments and senior leadership, promoting effective communication and collaboration to achieve business goals.
- Prepare and deliver detailed reports, presentations, and updates to senior leadership and key stakeholders, effectively communicating business performance, insights, and strategic recommendations.

**Qualifications**
- University degree in relevant field (Previous experience in investment banking, or other financial service roles is helpful, but not required.)
- 8+ years of relevant experience in strategic project management and execution, managing change initiatives ideally at the enterprise level
- Advanced verbal and written communication skills with the ability to build relationships effectively at all levels. Confidence communicating and interacting with senior management, peers and other team members, internal and external stakeholders
- Highly proficient with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Demonstrated analytical skills and the abi

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