Managing Director, Value Creation Private Markets

Managing Director, Value Creation - Private Markets Department: Investments Type: Full-Time - Permanent Location: Toronto (Hybrid) Posting Date: September 9, 2026 At OPTrust, paying pensions today, preserving pensions for tomorrow is our mission and business. When you choose OPTrust, you join a team of smart, talented people who fuel our success and have a passion for pensions. Everyone at OPTrust – in Toronto, London and Sydney – makes a meaningful impact.

Our culture is driven by team members with different backgrounds and perspectives creating an inclusive and fulfilling place to work for everyone. We work in a fast-paced environment, but we find time to have fun and give back to the community. What OPTrust offers you Unique culture rooted in our core values – collaboration and teamwork, integrity, respect, flexibility, excellence, and continuous improvement.

A purpose-driven environment where we all work towards the common goal of paying pensions today and preserving pensions for tomorrow. 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. A dedicated inclusion, diversity, and equity strategy with meaningful opportunities to participate, including our employee-led resource groups.

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. About OPTrust With net assets of over $27 billion, OPTrust invests and manages one of Canada’s largest pension funds and administers the OPSEU Pension Plan (including OPTrust Select), a defined benefit plan with over 118,000 members.

OPTrust’s Private Markets team is a dedicated business unit within the Investment Division of OPTrust that invests and manages private markets investments, primarily focused on infrastructure, private equity, and real estate, on behalf of the Fund. We execute our member-driven investment strategy with our unique application of a total portfolio approach and a “One Team, One Fund” mindset and culture.

From our offices in Toronto, London, and Sydney, the team manages a diversified $13.5 billion global portfolio of private market investments across asset classes, sectors, strategies and geographies. We invest through a combination of fund commitments, co-investments, and direct investments. About the role OPTrust is seeking a Managing Director, Value Creation to join the Private Markets team in the Toronto office at an exciting stage of formalizing our internal strategic value creation capabilities, helping to drive growth and operational excellence across our global portfolio.

Reporting to the Senior Executive Managing Director and Global Head of Private Markets (“SEMD Private Markets”), the Managing Director, Value Creation will lead the build out of our newly established value creation function within the Private Markets team. The Managing Director, Value Creation will lead a team that will partner with deal teams, portfolio company leadership teams, boards, partners, and functional experts and advisors to establish and deliver strategic and operational value creation initiatives across our global portfolio, delivering quantifiable results that enhance OPTrust’s long-term investment performance.

The Managing Director, Value Creation and the Value Creation team will partner with deal teams through the investment lifecycle, from the due diligence, underwriting and investment decision-making stage through onboarding, asset management and exit, to identify, prioritize and execute opportunities that will deliver positive change and measurable value in our direct investments where we take an active own