Senior Advisor, Talent Process Optimization (12-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

As Senior Advisor, Talent (HR) Process Optimization, you will be accountable for executing effective strategies aimed at capturing, measuring, and optimizing critical processes within Talent Solutions & Services to ensure delivery excellence. You will partner with internal and external stakeholders to drive and deliver continuous improvement and to support the delivery of Talent programs.

Team Description

The Talent Solutions & Services team support the delivery of, and act as, first point of contact for all Talent programs and policy inquiries. The team delivers continuous improvement to processes and facilitates policy/program enhancements with a view of digital experience and operational efficiency.

Accountabilities:

• Provide subject-matter-expertise and advisory support to colleagues within and outside Talent on increasingly more difficult matters.
• Oversee and influence end-to-end journeys within area of responsibility, facilitates discussions with internal/ external stakeholders and drives best solutions aligned with business needs and priorities.
• Independently lead enhancements to our Talent systems and operations, including support for definition of business requirements and user acceptance testing activities. Has a continuous improvement mindset and looks to optimize Talent systems and processes by evaluating our current and desired business processes/rules and system capabilities.
• Identify and lead processes and system changes required to improve Talent operational processes in the context of overall workforce management and analytics needs; understands and manages the end-to-end flow of Talent processes and data across multiple systems and functions.
• Partner with Centres of Excellence/Talent Business Partners to inform policy and program decisions to ensure processes are simplified and scalable.
• Actively manage external partners to ensure employee and organizational needs are met and services delivered are aligned with set expectations.
• Leverage data and other insights to drive high levels of advisory within area of responsibility.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree or college diploma in related field.
• 5+ years of relevant experience (e.g. process mapping and optimization)
• Lean Six Sigma certification preferred
• Proficiency and passion for lean methodology, tools and business process improvement, and continuous improvement principles.
• Experience with key market HR systems is required (e.g. ServiceNow, Workday, ADP, SmartRecruiters, etc)
• Fluency across the MS Office product suite is required with excellent Excel skills.
• Analytical mindset, comfortable with handling large sets of data and extracting insights from it.
• Strong planning and organizational skills with proven ability to manage competing priorities.
• Ability to foster collaborative working relationships at all levels internally and with external partners.
• Ability to identify opportunities, take the initiative and think through future implications.
• Drives medium complexity projects independently, driving success through aligning outcomes to corporate strategy and priorities while ensuring the outcomes create a positive employe experience.
• Excellent problem-solving and advisory skills, and high level of attention to detail and accuracy.

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.