Senior Director, Fund Integration and Insights

Position: Senior Director, Total Fund Integration and Insights
Location: Montreal

About Us We’re one of Canada’s largest pension investors, with CAD $320.6 billion of net assets as of March 31, 2026. We invest funds for the pension plans of the federal public service, the Canadian Forces, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Reserve Force. Headquartered in Ottawa, PSP Investments has its principal business office in Montréal and offices in New York, London and Hong Kong.

Capturing and leading complex global investments requires us to work as one to seize valuable opportunities, in close collaboration with some of the world’s top companies. At PSP Investments, you’ll join a team of motivated and engaged professionals, dedicated to propelling our organization further than ever before.
About The Team  The Total Fund Management team is responsible for defining the organization’s asset allocation based on thorough understanding of the sponsor’s risk tolerance, geopolitical, macroeconomic and market contexts and for rebalancing the total fund currencies and asset class exposures.
About Your Role  The  Senior Director, Total Fund Integration and Insights  leads the teams in charge of geopolitics, macroeconomics, and asset‑class mandates and benchmarks. The role builds and exerts influence to help align asset classes’ bottom‑up perspectives with CIO’s top‑down views and PSP’s strategic priorities, developing pragmatic approaches to complex macroeconomic and geopolitical issues that strengthen decision‑making, efficiency, and value creation for the Total Fund.

The incumbent will have to:
Lead teams in charge of geopolitics, macroeconomics, and asset‑class mandates and benchmarks
Closely monitor global economic, geopolitical, and financial market conditions, and lead the development of PSP’s long‑term global economic and geopolitical outlook for the Total Fund
Lead the development, enhancement and application of analytical frameworks used to assess and quantify economic and geopolitical phenomena, supporting evaluation of PSP’s investment risk/return profile
Translate geopolitical and macroeconomic views into actionable insights and recommendations that support their integration into PSP’s portfolio construction process
Support and influence asset classes on the implementation of their mandates and define benchmarks accordingly, providing top‑down macroeconomic and geopolitical analysis and recommendations to promote alignment with PSP’s Total Fund objectives
Apply and support the execution of validation frameworks with asset classes, assessing alignment between strategies and mandates and reinforcing discipline around the separation of alpha and beta
Develop and support transversal functions across the CIO group
Prepare and deliver briefings and analytical input to senior management, and contribute to materials used for Board discussions, on the medium‑ and long‑term global economic and geopolitical outlook and key developments impacting the Total Fund
What You’ll Need   Bachelor’s degree (Master’s degree strongly preferred) in a finance‑related field (e.g. economics, geopolitics, finance, etc.)
A minimum of fifteen (15) years in the finance industry with recent experience managing teams in a similar function
Excellent communicator notably great ability to clearly communicate complicated/technical concepts
Very good knowledge of public and private markets and concrete experience with private markets
Very good networking abilities / act in a role of influence
In‑depth understanding of major developed and emerging economies, their financial markets, and geopolitical characteristics
Previous experience in a pension fund or similar institution, an asset
Experience in managing teams with highly technical knowledge
Proficiency in English and French. Frequent interactions in English with…