Manager, Talent Business Partner

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

As a Manager, Talent Business Partner (TBP), you will serve as a thought partner, primary talent advisor and implementation lead on all matters related to people and culture for our Technology & Data group. Working with the leadership team, you will also be responsible for supporting the continuous development, implementation, and improvement of core talent solutions and deliverables in line with the organization and department’s strategic objectives.

Reporting to the Managing Director, Talent Business Partner, you will work closely with other global TBP team members as well as colleagues from our Talent Centers of Expertise to deliver on your mandate.

As the ideal candidate, you are recognized for your sound judgement on complex talent issues, your ability to advise and coach line leaders and your insights on talent management. You bring an innovative yet practical approach and have an excellent track record as a human resources practitioner, developed in a knowledge-based industry and in global, complex environments. You enjoy executing initiatives and navigating your clients through organizational change, and you are a highly effective communicator who builds trusted relationships with team members, senior partners and stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities:

• Act as a key member of the TBP team in the execution of talent processes, seeking alignment, simplification, and scalability as well as opportunities for improvement.  
• Provide advisory support and coaching to people leaders on talent management programs and solutions, building strong partnerships across the organization. 
• Own and deliver discrete projects and cyclical talent processes, leveraging insight and support from Centre of Expertise and Talent Business Partner teams as necessary.   
• Proactively identify improvements to processes and operational efficiencies and collaborate with colleagues from across the Talent department to document and implement changes/updates. 
• Leverage Talent data and analytics to provide insights and recommendations on complex situations, informing decision making and driving continuous improvement. 
• Integrate understanding of domain and client expertise to assess risk and identify new ideas and solutions for broadly defined problems. 
• Act as a subject matter expert when contributing to Group and Department initiatives and projects. 

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree or college diploma in a related field 
• 6+ year of relevant experience.  
• Proficient in MS Office applications (Work, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.) and leading HR Information Systems. 
• Strong knowledge of global Talent principles and practices, as well as performance management and employee relations, sufficient to provide advice to people leaders and employees on complex or non-standard issues. 
• Demonstrated experience interpreting Talent data and metrics to inform decision-making and drive continuous improvement initiatives. 
• Demonstrated ability to apply judgement and experience when presented with ambiguity. 
• Experience fostering effective working relationships at all levels internally and with external parties. 

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.