Director, European Operations & Relationship Management

Position: Director, European Operations & Relationship Management (2 year contract)
Purpose. Performance. People.

Joining CPP Investments means joining one of the world’s most admired and respected institutional investors to drive a single mandate: to deliver strong, sustainable returns for generations of Canadians.  With a long-term horizon and global reach, we deploy capital at scale across public and private markets. Our size, stability, and disciplined investment philosophy allow us to pursue complex opportunities and build enduring partnerships worldwide.

For our people, this means meaningful work with tangible impact, real opportunity, and collaboration with exceptional colleagues who value partnership and performance. Here, you’ll contribute to outcomes that matter alongside team members committed to excellence and shared success.

The Role As the Director you will support the Head of Europe in evolving the regional operating model to fully realize the value of the One Fund strategy. The role will work collaboratively across all Departments within the region, and globally, to build the connectivity and alignment necessary to achieve the Head of Europe’s vision for optimized performance that both leverages and contributes to CPPIB’s advantages.

The role will be a key partner to both the Head of Europe and the Head of RM with the candidate acting as a bridge-builder across internal and regional external stakeholders. Internally, the role will drive the integration of the One Fund strategy into the European operating model. The role will serve as the European execution lead for the Global Relationship Management operating model, ensuring that Europe contributes to, and benefits from, a coordinated One Fund approach to strategic external relationships.

You will work closely with the Global Head of RM to translate enterprise RM priorities into regional execution, while ensuring regional intelligence, relationship dynamics and transaction pipelines inform global coverage, tiering and engagement decisions.

You will undertake the assignment based in the London office.

The Team Accountabilities:

European Operations. You will assist the Head of Europe in developing and executing a regional strategy to maximize the value of acting as One Fund in the region, while also acting as a key stakeholder to the Chief Operating Officer on regional matters. This will include regular coordination on operational issues, bringing together integrative regional thought leadership with the global enterprise approach.

Over time, the successful outcome of this work will be a self-perpetuating operating model whereby the desired connectivity (both in region and globally) is achieved organically by the businesses. Specific operational accountabilities for the European Director include:

Supporting the Head of Europe in aligning local senior leadership on regional priorities, sourcing ideas and soliciting advice on regional business needs and building the cross-department connectivity needed to achieve the One Fund Strategy.

Driving the integration of our global strategy into the region and ensuring that regional activities are aligned and nested with the broader enterprise strategy, while enabling the regional departmental strategies.

Driving the coordinated execution of operational elements within the European region, including the integration of Employee Resource Groups, and representing the Office of the Head of Europe to resolve operational issues.

Developing a strong understanding of how investment groups operate in the region and using this understanding to tailor a regional operating model to drive better investment outcomes.

Regular engagement with regional and global Group Heads to understand the context of functional strategies and operations, align regional priorities and execution where…