As the Managing Director Strategy & Innovation Private Equity you will lead the strategic vision and of transformational projects critical to the departments success. Reporting directly into the Head of Strategy & Investment Management this role is ideal for a senior investment professional who thrives at the intersection of investing strategy digital innovation and crossfunctional leadership.
The successful candidate will play a key role in strategic projects in portfolio construction and relative value assessment aimed at enhancing investment decisionmaking and capital deployment effectiveness and updating and delivering against the PE digital roadmap to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency across existing and emerging tools and analytics.
Team Description
The Private Equity Strategy & Investment Management team plays a central role in shaping the longterm strategic direction of the PE department. The team drives capital planning portfolio analytics and industry research while also advancing crossfunctional initiatives and contributing to investment strategy development reporting and leadership communications.
Accountabilities:
- Provide thought leadership and analytical support for strategic initiatives around portfolio construction and relative value contributing to departmental decisionmaking frameworks.
- Lead the identification and prioritization of improved investment analytics that will drive alpha across the portfolio and strategies or drive efficiencies for the department and enterprise in partnership with the investment groups and the PE Strategy & Investment Management team.
- Partner with the investment groups to provide support advice and leverage.
- Drive the thought leadership and change management required with embracing new ways of working including influencing and aligning senior stakeholders across the organization.
- Leverage your deep knowledge of the organization to navigate complexity anticipate interdependencies and surface opportunities for innovation.
- Leverage investment experience to effectively develop relationships forums and approaches that drive optimize analytics and efficiency
- Collaborate with crossfunctional partners (e.g. Tech & Data Risk Finance Operations TFM/ OCIO) to define prioritize and deliver data products that unlock the potential of PEs proprietary data.
- Provide coaching and management of resources in the Strategy and Business Management team to further enhance and upgrade the overall team skills.
- Develop strategies and plans to enhance the partnership with business partners in evaluating the benefits costs and risks associated with solutions and services.
- Ownership of the Private Equity department existing digital tools / products ongoing success as well as leading the identification prioritization and of future digital tools and enhancements
- Support the business case development in collaboration with relevant partners ensuring their product is funded and set up for success
- Maintain uptodate knowledge of the external digital tool landscape and continuously reassess how PE can leverage existing tools / new tools to drive value
Qualifications :
- Minimum 15 years of experience in the investment industry with a strong preference for candidates with direct Private Equity or private capital markets experience.
- Proven experience working within CPP Investments and strong relationships across internal stakeholder groups.
- Deep understanding of the Private Equity business including data usage in investment workflows performance analytics and portfolio management.
- Strong strategic thinking and problemsolving skills.
- Demonstrated experience leading complex crossfunctional initiatives with seniorlevel visibility and influence.
- Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills.
- Change management mindset with a focus on organizational adoption engagement and measurable business impact.
- Passionate about innovation data and improving decisionmaking in a worldclass investment organization.
- Commitment to CPP Investments guiding principles of integrity partnership and high performance
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Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime