Secondment: Director, Real Assets Business Management

Experience Level: Executive Level | Posted Date: 2025-04-15

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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

The Real Assets Business Management (RABM) group within the Real Assets (RA) investment department is responsible for all operational, non-investment activities across the department. Specifically, our mandate is to orchestrate information flows between investment groups, RA leadership, and Enabling Functions, across the following areas: 

• Short-term capital budget;
• Business planning;
• Select aspects of reporting; and
• Various enterprise projects touching on RA’s operations. 

We are recruiting for a Director in the Toronto office. The role will report directly to the Head of the RABM team.

This is a 12-month secondment role.

Role-specific Accountabilities:

Infrastructure Group Support

• Act as the lead RABM representative to the Infrastructure Group (within Real Assets), supporting their operational needs and enabling first-line execution of investment processes and reporting. 
• Oversee the capital management process, including deep dive analysis into RA portfolio actuals, updating monthly pipeline cash requirements, and tracking overall capital usage against the approved budget.
• Provide relevant investment activity and broader business context to support Board, Senior Management Team (SMT), and departmental reporting.
• Oversee the business planning process, including objective, budget, and workforce planning.
• Support the review of operating performance (e.g. analyzing operating expense and investment expense performance vs. budget, including major drivers of divergence).
• Help with the coordination of the Infrastructure Investment Committee. 

Cross-department/Fund activities

• Oversee and/or lead continuous improvement initiatives to optimize Department and/or Fund operations.
• Represent RA in enterprise-wide initiatives and act as a critical link between RA and the rest of the organization.  
• Execute ad-hoc reporting and analysis to support business management and investment decisions as needed.
• Manage and help ensure adherence to department policies and procedures (including training for investment teams where relevant). 

Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years of relevant investment industry experience
• An undergraduate degree and/or graduate degree  
• Private market knowledge and experience (preferred)
• At least 3-5 years of talent development and people management experience
• Strong communication skills (verbal and written)  
• Demonstrated stakeholder management and relationship-building ability
• Demonstrated analytical and structured problem-solving skills
• Mindset toward continuous improvement and demonstrated track record of process enhancement
• Comfortable with working across diverse teams
• Ability to work in a high-performing culture, under pressure and with time-sensitive deadlines
• Must exemplify CPP Investments’ guiding principles of Integrity, Partnership and High Performance

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

We thank all applicants for their interest but will only contact candidates selected to advance in the hiring process. 

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.