Senior Multi-Asset Portfolio Manager

CIBC; Montreal (administrative region); Hybrid; CAD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading Canadian bank is seeking a Senior Investment Professional to manage and innovate absolute return investment strategies. The role involves developing portfolio management strategies, collaborating on new innovations, and mentoring investment professionals. Ideal candidates will have 15+ years of experience, advanced knowledge of capital markets, and be fluent in both French and English. This position emphasizes teamwork, initiative, and integrity in a fast-paced environment, with a commitment to ethical practices and client success.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Incentive pay

Benefits program

Defined benefit pension plan

Employee share purchase plan

Vacation offering

Wellbeing support

Recognition program

Qualifications

• 15+ years of relevant experience as a senior investment professional.
• Advanced knowledge of capital markets and rigorous portfolio and risk management expertise.
• Fluency in French and English required.

Responsibilities

• Develop and manage a top‑down cross‑asset investment strategy.
• Identify and collaborate on new investment strategies.
• Mentor PMs across investment teams.

Skills

Absolute Return

Arbitrage

Asset Allocation

Portfolio Management

Risk Management

Volatility Analysis

Education

Undergraduate degree

Graduate degree in business, finance, or economics

CFA or CIM designations

Job description

We’re building a relationship-oriented bank for the modern world

We need talented, passionate professionals who are dedicated to doing what’s right for our clients.

At CIBC, we embrace your strengths and your ambitions so you are empowered at work. Our team members have what they need to make a meaningful impact and are truly valued for who they are and what they contribute.

What you’ll be doing

CIBC Global Asset Management (CGAM) is one of Canada’s largest asset management firms with approximately $300 billion in assets under management and over forty‑five years of experience designing and implementing client solutions. We lead in providing a broad range of high‑quality global investment management solutions to retail and institutional clients.

Our assets include those under institutional money management for pension funds, endowments and insurance funds, private wealth management, and those that are part of the CIBC family of mutual funds such as CIBC Mutual Funds, Renaissance Investments family of funds, and the CIBC family of managed portfolio solutions such as Managed Portfolio Services (MPS), Personal Portfolio Services (PPS), Frontiers Pools, and Axiom Portfolios.

At CIBC, our goal is to help our clients achieve what matters to them. Our philosophy is based on the CIBC values of Trust, Teamwork, and Accountability and we achieve results for our clients through an in‑depth disciplined investing approach based on rigor and research.

Reporting to the CIO and Managing Director of Multi-Asset & Currency Management, this role is responsible for identifying, constructing, and managing a range of innovative “Best in Class” investment solutions that make a significant contribution to establishing and sustaining CGAM as a global leader in absolute return investing.

At CIBC we enable the work environment most optimal for you to thrive in your role. Details on your work arrangement (proportion of on‑site and remote work) will be discussed at the time of your interview.

How you’ll succeed

Portfolio Management: Develop, implement and manage an innovative absolute return “quantamental” top‑down cross‑asset investment strategy that identifies and arbitrages relative opportunities across a broad universe of equity country and sector indexes, sovereign and credit fixed‑income markets, currencies, and commodities. Design and build an alpha engine and supporting risk management and portfolio construction infrastructure in partnership with quantitative team colleagues. Ensure the developed strategy is diversifying, accretive, and has the requisite performance features to drive client demand (including, but not limited to, consistently top quartile performance within a representative peer universe) and is complementary to the firm’s existing single‑asset‑class capabilities.

Strategy Innovation: Identify and collaborate with CGAM colleagues to design, launch, and manage other innovative and diversifying “quantamental” absolute return investment strategies. These may include, but are not limited to, commodities, capital structure and merger / event‑driven arbitrage, relative value alpha strategies in volatility and dispersion, and strategies that arbitrage index mechanics, forced flows, rebalancing patterns, concentration dynamics, and liquidity distortions that result from passive flows.

Team Support & Collaboration: Support and mentor PMs across CGAM’s investment teams in the design of enhancements to their investment processes and risk management and portfolio construction infrastructure and procedures. Actively mentor less experienced PMs to ensure CGAM portfolio management practices are consistently Best in Class.

Business Development Activities: Provide support to the firm’s Business Development activities in the build‑out of a world‑class absolute return investment platform. This includes participation at conferences, webinars, podcasts, and meetings, as well as authorship of relevant white‑paper research notes. Particular focus on Quebec.

Who you are

You are a certified professional. An undergraduate degree is required; a graduate degree in business, finance and/or economics is desired. CFA and/or CIM designations required. Designation by OSC as an Advising Representative is required.

You bring 15+ years of relevant experience as a senior investment professional with advanced knowledge of capital markets and rigorous portfolio and risk management expertise across a range of asset classes. You consistently deliver strong investment performance across different market environments and are a well‑respected professional in Canada’s investment industry who understands the investment needs of a range of clients.

You look beyond the moment. You know what you do will make a difference today and tomorrow. You seek new opportunities to define what’s possible. You are an innovative and creative thinker motivated to identify a pipeline of commercially attractive and differentiating investment opportunities. Excellent problem‑solving and critical thinking with strong attention to detail, able to accurately identify a problem’s source, severity, and impact to determine possible solutions and required resources.

You are goal‑oriented, exhibit initiative, a sense of responsibility, and strong organizational skills. You consistently meet deadlines, work under pressure, and are motivated by collective success. You are a collaborative team player willing to regularly contribute to team and firm initiatives and successes to ensure our firm can distinguish itself through the provision of distinctive, world‑class investor solutions, service, and communication. You coach and mentor less‑experienced colleagues. You thrive in a fast‑paced, dynamic environment while managing multiple priorities. You understand, conceptualize, and implement business processes to ensure successful achievement of accountabilities. Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills. Able to concisely explain highly technical information to audiences with varying technical expertise.

Values matter to you. You bring your real self to work and live our values – trust, teamwork, and accountability. You exude integrity, embrace a fiduciary culture and act in the best interests of investors who have chosen CGAM as a steward of their investments. You conduct business in accordance with the highest legal and ethical standards.

You are fluent in French and English to serve our clients in the community.

What CIBC offers

At CIBC, your goals are a priority. We start with your strengths and ambitions as an employee and strive to create opportunities to tap into your potential. We aspire to give you a career, rather than just a paycheck.

We work to recognize you in meaningful, personalized ways including a competitive salary, incentive pay, banking benefits, a benefits program*, defined benefit pension plan*, an employee share purchase plan, a vacation offering, wellbeing support, and MomentMakers, our social, points‑based recognition program.

Our spaces and technological toolkit will make it simple to bring together great minds to create innovative solutions that make a difference for our clients.

We cultivate a culture where you can express your ambition through initiatives like Purpose Day; a paid day off dedicated for you to use to invest in your growth and development.

*Subject to plan and program terms and conditions

What you need to know

CIBC is committed to creating an inclusive environment where all team members and clients feel like they belong. We seek applicants with a wide range of abilities and we provide an accessible candidate experience. If you need accommodation, please contact Mailbox.careers-

CIBC is committed to clarity in our hiring process. All roles posted are opportunities we’re actively recruiting for, unless stated otherwise.

You need to be legally eligible to work at the location(s) specified above and, where applicable, must have a valid work or study permit.

We may ask you to complete an attribute‑based assessment and other skills test (such as simulation, coding, French proficiency).

We use artificial intelligence tools during the recruitment process. Our goal for the application process is to get to know more about you, all that you have to offer, and give you the opportunity to learn more about us.

Job Location

Non‑Trader‑1000 Gauchetière O

Employment Type

Regular

Weekly Hours

37.5

Skills

Absolute Return, Arbitrage, Asset Allocation, Asset Management, Collaborating, Collaboration, Currency Management, Equities, Fixed Income Investments, Investments, Investment Strategies, Leadership, Portfolio Construction, Portfolio Management, Relative Value, Researching, Risk Management, Strategic Objectives, Volatility Analysis