Director, Learning and Development

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
• Being motivated every day by CPP Investments’ important social purpose and unshakable principles
• A flexible/hybrid work environment combining in office collaboration and remote working
• 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
Reporting to the Managing Director of Learning & Development, the Director, Learning and Development will work with global internal and external partners and SMEs to identify the needs, design, develop and deliver integrated global learning programs and solutions.

The Director will incorporate best practice learning approaches, systems/technology and measurement to lead the learning strategy and roadmap to enable our people to deliver exceptional results.

Responsibilities include:

• Manages, leads, develops, and coaches a team of learning professionals to advance capabilities and sustain a world-class learning experience while supporting and accelerating learning across CPP Investments.
• Partners to define and lead the execution of our learning strategy in partnership with our business partners, EDI, HRBPs and other COEs, to build a culture of growth and development, delivering innovative programs and strategies to engage and advance skills and competencies.
• Defines and executes a robust needs analysis strategy that supports the design and delivery of programs and establishes measurement tools to track the success, using data to inform future programming and drive our organizational priorities forward.
• Deploys a structure of learning modality (live and virtual, hybrid) and learning (synchronous and asynchronous, community) modes to incorporate on-the-job, formal and informal experiences, ensuring the suite of learning opportunities remains innovative, bold and agile meeting the emerging business needs and prepares employees for the future.
• Provides learning consultancy and thought leadership to enhance business performance informed by best practices and emerging trends to continuously improve and optimize design, content, development tools and technologies to align with strategic objectives and future training needs.
• Manages resources, efficient operations, budgets and identifies, negotiates procurement, and manages learning & development/vendors and providers.
• Champion and advocate learning and leadership development and collaborate with others to support a continuous learning culture.

Qualifications

• Deep experience developing large global scale learning and development programs for a professional organization.
• Has demonstrable expertise in adult learning to drive strategies and innovative solutions to enhance competencies and capabilities.
• A proven track record of delivering results in the learning space, driving behavioural change through a collaborative, inclusive style and process.
• Able to lead and develop others in an ambiguous, constantly changing and fast-paced environment.
• Demonstrated ability to lead, inspire and develop relationships across all levels of the organization.
• Strong communication skills both written and oral supporting (presenting, training, consulting, coaching) and influencing sr. leaders.
• Excellent interpersonal and negotiation/influence skills to collaborate with internal team members within and outside of the organization to add value.