Principal, Global Investment Strategy

The Opportunity

Exciting opportunity for a Principal to join our Global Investment Strategy team in Toronto The Principal, Global Investment Strategy (GIS) plays a key role on the strategy team for Ontario Teachers' - an enterprise which, at its core, is a business investing capital for its members. The role entails helping the organization make strategic choices through enhancing our awareness of our competitive and business environments, formulating, activating and enabling strategy and building strategic relationships. It is a critical role on a small, dynamic team which is helping a leading investment organization navigate a complex environment undergoing significant disruption.

Who You’ll Work With

Reporting to the Senior Managing Director, Global Investment Strategy, you will work closely with your GIS colleagues based in Toronto and our global offices. The GIS team is within the Strategy & Stakeholder Relations division alongside Sustainable Investing, Government and Public Affairs and Marketing & Communications.

You will have the outstanding opportunity to work collaboratively with colleagues across all asset classes, regions and corporate functions globally. An important component of the GIS mandate is to collaborate with colleagues across divisions and departments in order to ensure we have the relevant capabilities, operating model, and processes in place to advance our global strategy.

What You’ll Do- Help increase the Fund’s global awareness and ability to adapt to a rapidly changing business environment, assuring the organization continues to both anticipate and respond to shifting sets of opportunities and risks.- Work to activate the Fund’s enterprise strategy, leading Fund-wide strategic and transformational initiatives. This will also entail working with senior leadership to align the entire enterprise around our common business objectives.- Identify linkages and drive connectivity between the strategy, our investment plan, support for our members, operational plans, and the overall integrated plan for the Fund in order to support decision-making and enable the achievement of organizational objectives.- Activate the annual strategic planning process including ongoing monitoring and reporting on progress against the strategy.- Work in a dynamic and sometimes ambiguous environment to achieve strategic outcomes.- Build and deepen external relationships in areas of strategic import for the Fund. From time to time, you will also help to develop and represent the Ontario Teachers’ brand with external parties, with special focus on promoting greater clarity regarding the Fund’s overall strategy and approach to strategic relationships.- Mentor junior team members

What You’ll Need- Minimum 5 years of relevant work experience in strategy consulting, investment banking, private markets investing, or corporate strategy- Relevant work experience advising/working within large organizations on broad, long-term strategy and relationship development- Strong academic background; degrees in business, finance, technology or social science an asset- Exposure to investments, especially in context of working with large institutions- An understanding of the organizational behaviour of large, global financial institutions- Track record of navigating complexity and advancing strategic, cross-functional initiatives- Facility with AI-based tools- Strong awareness and experience in major global investment themes a plus- Abiding interest in global affairs a major asset- Exceptional interpersonal, communication and presentation skills (both oral and written)- Strong team player and willingness to develop other team members- Demonstrated ability to navigate ambiguity and approach problem-solving in a structured manner- Ability to balance competing priorities, work independently, manage projects and thrive in a high-performance, high-impact global team

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What we’re offering- Pay-for-performance environment that offers competitive salary and incentive- Numerous opportunities for professional growth and development- Comprehensive employer paid benefits coverage- Retirement income through a defined benefit pension plan- The opportunity to invest back into the fund through our Deferred Incentive Program- A flexible/hybrid work environment combining in office collaboration and remote working- Competitive time off- Our Flexible Travel Program gives you the option to work abroad in another region/country for up to a month each year- Employee discount programs including Edvantage and Perkopolis

At Ontario Teachers', diversity is one of our core strengths. We take pride in ensuring that the people we hire and the culture we create, reflect and embrace diversity of thought, background and experience. Through our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion strategy and our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), we celebrate diversity and foster inclusion through events for colleagues to connect for professional development, networking