Associate, Data Scouting, Strategy & Operating Office

Company Description

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 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

We are presently recruiting for an Associate within the Data Scouting team, part of the Technology and Operations. CPP Investments’ Data Scouting group is primarily accountable for strategic and tactical data sourcing for our business partners and relationship management of third-party data providers. The group also holds end to end responsibility for contracting including the negotiation and establishment of commercial and contract terms. The group also assists internal Business Partners with activities related to expense management and budgeting.

You will play a key role in the following activities including, but not limited to:

Data Scouting

• As a data subject matter expert and through a data-centric lens, work with Business Partners and data consumers within the firm to support the various data driven investment strategies and data consumer priorities
• Proactively source, evaluate and on-board data with existing and new providers
• Work directly with portfolio managers to prioritize and execute data scouting projects
• Provide consultative advice and educate Business Partners and data consumers on diverse data categories to enhance the knowledge and efficient adoption of data usage such as with fast moving alternative data categories
• Engage with Business Partners including data delivery, data operations, data scientists, data engineers, and investment management teams to onboard sourced data

Relationship Management

• Establish and maintain deep relationships with 3rd party data providers, setting clear direction for the partnership and ensuring efficient lines of communication
• Become the trusted source internally to identify, prioritize and develop new data partnership prospects and the trusted source to data providers to maintain and optimize commercial models and approach with new datasets
• Engage with data vendors as needed to enhance and/or resolve issues pertaining but not limited to data licensing, data usage, data errors, and data delivery options
• Within a business-centric data consumer engagement model, develop and maintain data usage profiles to help inform business data strategies
• Collaborate with departments across the company to identify creative applications of disparate data sources
• Create and maintain reports and communications proactively, internally, to advance and share knowledge

Qualifications

• University degree or diploma education, CFA/CAIA designation an asset
• 5+ years of experience in financial services; sell-side, buy-side, management consulting; or business strategy/corporate development
• Strong and concise communication experience with investment teams, product teams, data engineering teams
• Natural explorer and curious mind with excellent communication and proven negotiation skills
• Exhibits strong decision making, time management skills and sets priorities
• Data Scouting/Management, Product Management or Account Management experience would be considered an asset
• Exceptional listening skills in translating open-ended data requests into actionable data searches that yield data products that will meet the needs of business teams
• Experience interpreting and working with data catalogs, data dictionaries, sample data files to determine value, accuracy and relevance as well as familiarity with data delivery methods (i.e., data feeds, SFTP, API, Cloud etc.) an asset
• Proven ability to identify datasets that create value in the investment process
• Eagerness to execute with strong work ethic and a sense of urgency and at times through ambiguity requiring keen decision making
• Exemplify CPP Investments’ Guiding Principles of Partnership, Integrity 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.