Senior Advisor, Talent Acquisition (14-month contract)

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. With more than $600 billion in assets under management, CPP Investments is a professional investment management organization that globally invests the funds of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) to help ensure it is financially sustainable 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 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

We are looking for a Senior Advisor, Talent Acquisition to join our talent acquisition team and will be based in the head office in Toronto. Reporting to a Director, Talent Acquisition, you will be responsible for experienced hire recruiting across a range of departments with a focus on the Technology & Data department. As a Senior Advisor, Talent Acquisition, you will lead recruitment activities for multiple levels and businesses throughout the organization. Leveraging your experience and market insights, you'll drive recruitment strategies, foster candidate relationships, ensure an inclusive recruitment process, and advise hiring managers on optimal approaches to source, recruit, and assess candidates.

Core Accountabilities:

• Lead end-to-end recruitment including advising Hiring Managers on developing the recruitment strategy, managing the interview process with candidates, and leading the offer process and negotiation. 
• Source, map, manage, and interview global candidates at multiple levels for multiple businesses.
• Identify core capabilities for successful hires and generate interview/candidate assessment content (interview guides and decision tools) to measure those capabilities/potential. 
• Serve as a trusted advisor to hiring managers, providing guidance and expertise on recruitment processes, candidate sourcing, and selection criteria to support strategic workforce planning.
• Utilize data-driven insights and recruitment metrics to assess the effectiveness of talent acquisition initiatives, identify areas for improvement, and drive continuous optimization of recruitment processes and strategies.
• Collaborate with colleagues to recruit across other groups and departments, depending on relative hiring demands.

Qualifications

• University or college graduate with commitment to continued learning.
• 6+ years of full-cycle recruitment experience preferably with experience recruiting for Technology & Data roles.
• Comfortable working independently and managing full-cycle recruitment for roles up to and including Director level.
• Proven track record of sourcing candidates via LinkedIn Recruiter and other sourcing tools.
• Comfort building candidate talent maps and documents to research candidate market.
• High degree of diplomacy, experience working with interview teams and managing up and across the organization.
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Office and Applicant Tracking Systems.
• Advanced candidate management and assessment skills with a proven track record of successful hires.

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.