Managing Director, Corporate Security & Enterprise Resilience, Information & Corporate Security

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. As a professional investment management organization, CPP Investments invests the funds of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) to help ensure its financial sustainability 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 $3.6 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

The Managing Director, Corporate Security and Enterprise Resilience, is responsible for ensuring the overall physical security and operational resilience of CPP Investments. This includes leadership and oversight of global physical security, life safety, enterprise resilience programs, and the corporate insurance function. The role reports into the Managing Director, Head of Information & Corporate Security and plays a critical part in safeguarding people, assets, operations, and reputation, while ensuring the organization is prepared to respond to and recover from disruptions.

Accountabilities:

Physical Security & Safety

• Implement global premises security, operations, and activities to ensure protection of colleagues, stakeholders, visitors, as well as all physical assets. This function will also be accountable for end-to-end process and protocols providing input and guidance on security governance and strategy for the company.
• Provide refined investigative reports to meet the requirements of HR, Legal, IT and/or the Business Units as well as provide the executive leadership team with timely summary of high priority investigations.
• Develop travel security protocols and support systems for employees traveling to higher-risk regions, including coordination of intelligence, logistics, and emergency support.
• Manage relationships with internal and external stakeholders to proactively identify and mitigate threats such as violence, crime, civil unrest, terrorism, protests, and disease outbreaks.
• Maintain deep knowledge of and oversee the implementation of physical security technologies, including CCTV, access control, and intrusion detection systems.

Enterprise Resilience & Business Continuity

• Manage the global enterprise resilience program with direct responsibility for 12 sites throughout the Americas, UK and Europe and Asia Pacific regions. Responsibility includes direct oversight and management of the Enterprise Resilience Program (Business Continuity Management, IT Disaster Recovery, Crisis Management) supporting the management of operational risk.
• Oversee the global Business Continuity Management (BCM) program, ensuring alignment with the fund’s strategic objectives and integration into third-party risk management.
• Partner with Technology to develop, implement, and oversee Disaster Recovery to ensure the continuity and recovery of critical technology infrastructure and systems, including on-premises and cloud environments. Collaborate with IT leadership to conduct regular testing, updates, and validation of recovery procedures, ensuring minimal downtime and data loss in the event of a disaster.

Crisis Management

• Lead relevant stakeholders through the development and implementation of well-defined governance structures throughout the crisis management lifecycle which includes creation of global playbooks, crisis training, and establishing postmortem and recovery processes.
• Provide oversight of the Crisis Management framework and act as the primary point of contact for executives during crises. Accountable for providing detailed and refined reports, briefings, and presentations to meet the requirements of our Board of Directors and executive leadership, influencing decision-making on risk and resilience across organizational, departmental, and geographic lines.

Corporate Insurance

• Oversee global corporate insurance programs, including Integrated Risk coverage (e.g., D&O, Fiduciary, FI Bond, Property/Casualty, Liability, and Crisis), ensuring competitive pricing, adequate coverage, and compliance.

Strategic Leadership & Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with Information Security teams to ensure seamless coordination of incident response, threat analysis, investigations, and intelligence sharing across the functions.
• Lead department/functional strategic initiatives that drive business value. Collaborate, plan, and organize to bridge strategies across teams.

Qualifications

• University degree in a related field
• 10+ years of relevant experience
• In-depth experience formulating security, crisis, emergency, disaster recovery, and other response plans.
• Experience establishing systems to properly monitor and track security issues, investigations, and requests for information.
• Direct experience working with or within intelligence agencies, or collaborating on intelligence-driven initiatives.
• Experience in guiding and assisting business functional leaders in developing and documenting business recovery strategies with an eye for unique global needs.
• Proven strategic leadership and relationship management capabilities, with experience with internal stakeholders — particularly senior and line-of-business management, as well as external parties such as industry counterparts, business partners and business and IT service providers.
• In-depth knowledge of security technology (i.e. CCTV, Access Control, Intrusion) and other security-related systems.
• Strong written and verbal communications skills

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.