Managing Director, Total Portfolio Integration & Transformation

OPTrust • Toronto, ON

4d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Managing Director, Total Portfolio Integration & Transformation will be reporting directly to the Chief Investment Officer and be a valued contributor to the Investment Strategy & Planning Committee. The role is expected to contribute significantly to investment decision making as well as advancing OPTrust’s “One Team - One Fund” operating model and culture. This role is designed to bring strategic clarity, cross-functional coordination, and disciplined execution to the evolution of OPTrust’s investment capabilities. Important to this mandate is leading the management of the CIO’s Strategic Innovation Portfolio, aimed at accelerating internal capability development and identifying areas within the Total Portfolio that are at risk of disruption. By integrating technology, innovation, and advanced analytics with investment strategy, macro insights, and risk factor analysis, the role provides a unified leadership position that serves as a critical enabler for informed, Total Portfolio decision-making. The success of this role will require the ability to work effectively across the three investment teams within OPTrust: Liquid Assets, Illiquid Assets and the Office of Chief Investment Officer as well as with functional partners such as ITOS, Finance and Investment Risk.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in a quantitative field such as Finance, Economics, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 15+ years of progressive experience in investment management, portfolio strategy, or adjacent domains, including experience in both public and private markets.
• Senior leadership experience (MD, VP, or equivalent) leading investment platform modernization or operating model transformation within a complex institutional investment organization.
• Deep understanding of portfolio construction, risk management, and investment workflows across liquid and illiquid asset classes, with credibility to engage senior investment professionals as a peer.
• Demonstrated ability to translate strategic investment priorities into clear, executable roadmaps, balancing innovation, scalability, risk, and cost.
• Proven effectiveness in matrixed, influence-driven settings, including resolving enterprise-level prioritization decisions without direct line authority.
• Strong understanding of how emerging technologies, including AI and advanced analytics, can be applied to enhance investment decision making, with the judgment to distinguish high-value applications from hype.
• Experience leading enterprise change in complex professional environments where adoption depends on credibility, governance, and operating model design rather than directive authority.
• Exemplify OPTrust’s values: collaboration and teamwork, integrity, respect, flexibility, excellence, and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Define and communicate a clear, multi-year vision for modernizing OPTrust's investment platform, establishing target outcomes, guiding principles, and required capabilities across portfolio risk, research, analytics, and decision support.
• Translate the CIO's strategic priorities for Total Portfolio management into an actionable roadmap with clear sequencing and traceability to measurable business outcomes supported by modernization efforts that are coherent and compounding rather than a collection of disconnected initiatives.
• Drive a deliberate, phased approach to modernization, starting with targeted, constrained pilots focused on removing low-value work from investment teams so they can focus on higher-value portfolio management activities.
• Build and manage a small portfolio of strategic relationships with external partners, including: leading asset managers and financial services firms, technology leaders and peer institutions with the strategic benefits of accelerating internal capability development and access to leading practices.
• Manage the assets to meet portfolio objectives.
• Represent OPTrust in innovation and portfolio modernization forums, strengthening OPTrust's external profile as a forward-thinking institutional investor.
• Identify areas within the Total Portfolio that are ripe for disruption and could benefit from innovation.
• Foster a culture of disciplined innovation, continuous learning, and intellectual rigor.
• Develop future leaders who can bridge the gap between investment expertise, technology capability, and operational excellence.
• Lead the development of an integrated framework for portfolio risk identification, measurement, and reporting that enhances the CIO's ability to make informed decisions on Total Portfolio risk and risk factor allocation.
• Ensure efforts strengthen rather than disrupt existing risk processes, with a focus on data integrity, robust controls, and auditability.
• Define data requirements, ownership, stewardship, and quality standards for the portfolio analytics and risk insights platform.
• Serve as the initial beachhead for modernization by working with investment teams to help transform how they use technology and data to conduct research, access information, and synthesize insights.
• Identify and deploy capabilities that enhance the quality and depth of investment research across asset classes, enabling portfolio managers and analysts to focus on higher-value analytical and judgment-intensive work.
• Focus on implementation where technology supports and enhances human decision-making.
• Establish clear decision frameworks for assessing emerging technologies and capabilities, ensuring adoption is responsible, secure, and value-driven.
• Operate as senior connective tissue across functional departments at OPTrust while mobilizing different teams toward a shared “One Team - One Fund” vision.
• Partner with technology and data leadership to translate business requirements into an integrated delivery plan with agreed dependencies and resourcing.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits focused on your health and wellness, including dental, vision and extended health benefits, as well as membership in our world-class defined benefit pension plan.
• A flexible, hybrid work model.
• Extensive professional development opportunities and learning initiatives including access to LinkedIn Learning, guest speakers, tuition reimbursement, professional association memberships, leadership development programs, a mentorship program, monthly professional development time and more.
• A competitive vacation package with additional work-life balance days.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive