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  • ID
    #6101525
  • Job type
    Full-time
  • Salary
    TBD
  • Source
    CPP Investments
  • Date
    2020-11-25
  • Deadline
    2021-01-24

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Job Description

We are looking for a Principal Data Scientist to join the Portfolio Value Creation (PVC) team, 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 and San Francisco. PVC consists of c. 20 experienced professionals with investment, consulting and corporate backgrounds, operating across the portfolio and throughout asset lifecycles.

PVC is responsible for driving value creation across CPP Investments’ global portfolio of material direct equity investments. The team is active across the entire asset lifecycle, with selective pre-deal and consistent post-deal involvement including supporting deal teams pre-closing with commercial and operational due diligence and leading value creation initiatives with a sub-set of assets where there is the potential for greatest impact.

PVC is also leading CPP Investments’ longer-term ambition of driving a truly differentiated approach to private investing through complementing existing processes with alternative data sources and innovative analytics. In collaboration with Investment Groups and CPP Investment’s Tech & Data, PVC has made meaningful progress in driving this data-led reinvention of private investing including overseeing the development of a digital insights platform and leading advanced analytics projects with portfolio companies. As a continuation of this journey, PVC is establishing a data and analytics deployment team to drive value creation at portfolio companies by bringing differentiated analytical capabilities.

Reporting to the Managing Director, Head of Portfolio Value Creation, you will play a lead role in executing data-led initiatives to solve real-world business challenges within portfolio companies. Working with management teams, senior stakeholders, deal teams and other members of PVC team, you will drive the development and deployment of models to materially improve the operational performance of portfolio companies. While you will spend the majority of your time with portfolio companies, you will also have the opportunity to work closely with our Investment Groups and internal technical teams to bring a data-led approach across the asset lifecycle, including how we buy, sell and monitor our portfolio companies.

You will:

  • Lead scoping of initiatives and ensure the deployment of analytical models to solve real-world business challenges, materially improving performance of portfolio companies
  • Support Investment Groups and CPP Investments’ technical teams by bringing advanced analytics approaches to due diligence, monitoring and other activities across the asset life-cycle
  • Assist in idea generation of new analytical initiatives within portfolio companies
  • Help build the first multi-disciplinary data deployment team within PVC to deploy data-led methods with portfolio companies

Qualifications

You will bring:

  • 6+ years of experience in applied data science methods
  • Ability to understand business challenges and translate a business challenges to a relevant data science problem
  • Expertise in applying data science methods to solve real-world business challenges, delivering material commercial impact
  • Expertise in deploying and productizing data science models at scale
  • Strong communication skills – an ability to explain complex analytical concepts
  • People leadership – an ability to manage project teams and/or direct reports
  • Fluent in Python and/or other relevant languages, and Machine Learning tools
  • Degree in a quantitative subject matter (e.g., computer science, statistics, machine learning)
  • Conduct consistent with our Guiding Principles of Integrity, Partnership and High Performance

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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.

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