Associate, Investment Portfolio Management

**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** Position Summary**

We are presently seeking an **Associate** to join the **Investment Portfolio Management Group’s - Public Markets team**for a** 12-month contract opportunity**. As part of this dynamic team, you will work closely our investing Departments, particularly Active Equities (AE) and Capital Markets and Factoring Investing (CMF), and the broader TFM department to advance our mission to maximize the risk-adjusted returns of the Active Portfolios by ensuring that we have the best possible combination of active programs in the Fund and by acting as thought partners with the Investment Departments on investment strategy matters.

**Department Summary**

**_ Office of the Chief Investment Officer (OCIO)_**

The Office of the Chief Investment Officer (“OCIO”) mandate is to enable the Chief Investment Officer (“CIO”) by providing the CIO with the necessary resources and expertise to perform the CIO’s accountabilities. OCIO consists of two groups: Investment Portfolio Management and Integrated Strategies.

**_ Investment Portfolio Management (IPM) _**

The Investment Portfolio Management (“IPM”) group works on behalf of the CIO to maximize the returns of the Investment Portfolios at the targeted level of risk through providing dedicated support for each CIO-approved investment strategy, active portfolio design, investment signals, investment decision analysis and governance and communications.

We manage our portfolio of active strategies (“Active Portfolio”) via a mix of internal and external strategies to deliver incremental value-add returns through investment selection. Annually, the CIO reviews the mandate and performance of each investment strategy to refresh the Fund’s capital allocations as appropriate.

**Role-specific Accountabilities**:

- Supporting senior team members in the day-to-day activities for oversight of the Active Equities (AE) and Capital Markets and Factor Investing (CMF) investment programs including but not limited to relative value assessment, market conditions monitoring and capital usage optimization.
- Playing a key role in the financial/statistical modeling, portfolio analysis, and portfolio construction work related to long-term strategic allocation and helping shape the risk-adjusted return of AE/CMF to align with the best total fund outcomes.
- Support the active public market investment departments on special situations, projects, new opportunities and problem identification (if any) related to investment strategy.
- Help drive the evaluation of AE and CMF investment programs for delivery against assumptions and objectives, including return on capital, short-term deployment budgets and Portfolio reviews.
- Assist identifying emerging risks and opportunities in global markets and integrating insights into portfolio decision-making.
- Engaging with external managers, market strategists, and research providers to gather insights relevant to macro-driven portfolio decisions.
- Conducting macroeconomic and thematic investment analysis, and cross-asset strategy development.
- Work flexibly across IPM to assist in activities that best support the CIO given prevailing market conditions.

**Qualifications**
- 2+ years of demonstrated experience in investment management, trading, consulting or investment banking.
- Proficiency in Python is required, with experience in data science and