CPP Investments Looking for Manager, Talent Management & Organizational Effectiveness at Toronto, ON Full Time

Make an impact at a global and dynamic investment organization

When you invest your career in CPP Investments, you join one of the most respected and fastest growing institutional investors in the world. With current assets under management valued in excess of $500 billion, CPP Investments is a professional investment management organization that globally invests the funds of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) to help ensure long-term sustainability. The CPP Fund is projected to reach $3 trillion by 2050. CPP Investments invests in all major asset classes, including public equity, private equity, real estate, infrastructure and fixed-income instruments, and is headquartered in Toronto with offices in Hong Kong, London, Luxembourg, Mumbai, New York City, San Francisco, São Paulo and Sydney.

CPP Investments attracts and selects high-calibre individuals from top-tier institutions around the globe. Join our team and look forward to:

• Diverse and inspiring colleagues and approachable leaders
• Stimulating work in a fast-paced, intellectually challenging environment
• Accelerated exposure and responsibility
• Global career development opportunities
• Being motivated every day by CPP Investments’ important social purpose and unshakable principles
• A deeply rooted culture of Integrity, Partnership and High Performance

If you share a passion for performance, value a collegial and collaborative culture, and approach everything with the highest integrity, here’s an opportunity for you to invest your career at CPP Investments.

The Manager, Talent Management & Organizational Effectiveness reports to the Director and works collaboratively within Human Resources and across Departments. The Manager enhances and executes talent, organizational effectiveness and transformation initiatives and provides data-driven insights to further advance strategic objectives and our culture evolution. This role contributes to large-scale organization-wide projects and/or manages end-to-end programs/processes for one or more initiatives. Key areas of responsibility can include research, design, implementation, stakeholder engagement and analysis of programming and processes.

Role-Specific Accountabilities

Manage end-to-end design and delivery of one or more organization-wide talent and organizational effectiveness programs and/or contribute discrete pieces to large-scale transformational projects and/or process enhancements that drive alignment of objectives and employee engagement to further promote our desired goals and culture.

Responsibilities include:

• Provide expertise in the areas of talent management, organizational effectiveness and employee engagement
• Establish cross-functional relationships and partner with key stakeholders to assess business needs and priorities and their implications for talent and organizational effectiveness programs/processes
• Design (both internally and with strategic vendor partners) creative, scalable and streamlined solutions to enable the seamless delivery of organization-wide programs/processes, enhance end-user experience and advance strategic priorities/objectives
• Own end-to-end management, delivery and continuous improvement of talent management and organizational effectiveness programs/processes such as performance management, coaching and assessments, engagement surveys, potential identification, development planning, succession planning, etc.
• Conduct and leverage analytics, expertise and ongoing research on global leading practices and trends to deliver data-driven insights that advance strategic priorities and objectives
• Leverage influencing and negotiation skills to socialize and obtain buy-in for program/process changes in a matrixed environment
• Identify and implement change management and communication requirements for all levels of the organization, in partnership with our HR business partners and internal communications team, developing and revising tools, resources and communication materials to increase adoption of the process and/or change
• Work with internal teams and vendor partners to implement various systems or processes to deliver scalable, reliable talent data, information and solutions
• Review measurement and evaluation tools to determine program/process efficiency and effectiveness
• Conduct ongoing data analysis to deliver organizational insights and inform future programming recommendations
• Ensure that programs/processes are fully integrated with other Organizational Development, HR and business programs or transformation initiatives, where appropriate

• Progressive experience in Talent Management, Organizational Effectiveness and/or Employee Engagement and/or Talent Management, preferably in the financial or professional services industry
• Undergraduate degree or college diploma in related field (e.g., Human Resources) is preferred; professional designation (e.g., CHRE) is a plus
• Current knowledge of the market, vendor landscape, emerging and leading global trends, research and practices;
• Proven track record of “hands-on” program management for large-scale, complex programs, processes and change initiatives
• Superior internal and external relationship-building, influencing and cross-functional partnership skills
• Strong communication skills (written and oral) with an ability to take concepts and express them concisely and effectively for all levels across the organization
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills and ability to understand broader impact and insights
• Highly organized, proven attention to accuracy and detail and an ability to produce high-quality work or project manage under tight timeframes
• Takes initiative, responsibility and pro-actively seeks opportunities to add value
• Exemplifies our Guiding Principles of Integrity, Partnership and High Performance

Additional Information

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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.

Mandatory Vaccine Policy

All employees in the Toronto, New York, San Francisco, Mumbai, Sydney, Hong Kong, and Sao Paulo offices will be required to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Accommodations to this policy will be made for medical or other protected grounds. Please contact us to discuss any accommodation needs.