Associate/senior Associate, Portfolio Value Creation

Company Description
**Make an impact at a global and dynamic investment organization**

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
- Global career development opportunities
- 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**:
We are looking for an individual to join the Portfolio Value Creation (PVC) team at the Associate or Senior Associate in the Sao Paolo office, during an exciting period of transformative change and growth. PVC partners with global Investment Groups across a portfolio of c. 80 assets and works out of offices in Toronto, London, Hong Kong, San Francisco, New York and Sao Paolo. PVC consists of c. 35 experienced professionals with investment, consulting and corporate backgrounds, operating across the portfolio and throughout asset life cycles.

Reporting to the Managing Director, Head of Portfolio Value Creation, you will be responsible for working with portfolio companies to identify and implement transformative, value creation opportunities. Working with other members of the Portfolio Value Creation team you will support the management teams, senior stakeholders, and deal teams, on world-class asset management projects and will identify, scope, and ensure implementation of value creation opportunities across the entire asset life cycle.

You will:

- Assist identification of strategic value creation opportunities across CPP Investments' portfolio, with a particular focus on our assets in Latin America
- Support implementation of value creation opportunities, including substantial module ownership;
- Support implementation of value creation projects, including leadership of specific modules of work;
- Assist deal teams in the diligence of select new deal opportunities;
- Support transition of new assets into CPP Investments' portfolio (Day 1 transition, 100-day planning, governance setup, value creation plan development, etc.);
- Support monitoring of selected CPP Investments direct investment assets;
- Interact with Senior Stakeholders, both internal and external, where appropriate;
- Work internationally, including some travel to other offices.

**Qualifications**:
You will bring:

- Relevant asset management experience; or top-tier consulting or industry experience working in Strategy, Corporate Development or Operational Transformation
- A Master’s degree or equivalent degree (preferred)
- Business fluency in either Portuguese or Spanish
- Significant experience working in Latin America
- Experience working in deal environments including supporting acquisitions, diligence and/or asset management activities
- Strong analytical skills and business judgement; solid financial literacy
- Strong written and verbal communications skills
- Experience in working in complex stakeholder environments
- Strong collaborator and team player who enjoys a high-performance culture
- Exposure to digital transformation (i.e., strategy and/or implementation of digital technology to fundamentally change how a business operates and creates value) considered a plus
- Conduct consistent with our Guiding Principles of Integrity, Partnership and High Performance
- Willingness to travel

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