Company Description
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 flexible/hybrid work environment combining in office collaboration and remote working
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.
Job Description
The Associate will report to the Managing Director, European Operations and Relationship Management.
This role will operate as a key member of the “Office of the Head of Europe”, providing support to both the Managing Director, European Operations and Relationship Management and the Senior Managing Director (SMD), Global Head of Real Assets (RA) & Head of Europe, alongside the SMD’s Executive Assistant resource.
The role is critical to enabling the connectivity, alignment, and data necessary to achieve the Head of Europe’s vision for optimized performance that both leverages and contributes to CPP Investments’ advantages. The role will provide operational support for all European Offices.
Responsibilities:
Provide the Office of the Head of Europe with support on regional operations & initiatives for Europe.
The role will be accountable for the coordination and preparation of materials, facilitating data-based operations and to support activities and initiatives for the European office ( European Management Advisory Committee (EMAC) meetings, regional leadership calls).
The successful candidate will be a key partner in implementing the regional strategy, establishing, and tracking metrics to evaluate the effectiveness of the strategy, and driving a culture of continuous improvement in the region.
The role will work closely with the Finance team to help manage and track budget for the Office of the Head of Europe.
Assist in the execution of a relationship management strategy to engage sovereign wealth funds, family offices, pension funds and other relevant corporate entities in Europe and the Middle East.
This will include research to determine where strategies overlap with our and create potential opportunities for potential partnership or to further competitive intelligence.
Further, the role with assist with the execution and tracking of these engagements along with the preparation of materials for senior leader engagements.
Provide event management support on activities such as the European Offsite, RA offsite, Senior Management Team & Board Meetings or regional visits, London office speakers/lunch & learns, Europe Inclusion & Diversity Council and Employee Resource Groups initiatives. Function will support the Office of the Head of Europe and the EMAC to ensure we have coordinated execution within the European region for all operational matters – to include maintaining a regional calendar of events.
Closely collaborate with Corporate Services to maximize the efficiency of currently available space, pilot new approaches consistent with the Workplace of the Future initiative.
Analyse data to inform office redesign.
Qualifications
Excellent MS Office capabilities – particularly across PPT and Excel.
Strong analytical skills and experience with data visualization platforms – Tableau, PowerBI, etc.
Fluency with AI Tools and Prompt Engineering.
Solid research background and experience.
Recognised ability to multi-task and prioritize, managing higher volume activity alongside longer-term project work.
First class communication, organisation, and collaboration skills.
High EQ, with an ability to engage and influence across teams and departments.
