Job Description:
Department: Human Resources – Talent Acquisition
Location: Toronto, ON • Work model: Hybrid (3 days/week in office)
Reports to: AVP, Talent Acquisition
Mackenzie Investments
IGM Financial Inc. is a leading wealth and asset management company in Canada, managing approximately $310 billion in assets as of December 31, 2025. It offers financial planning and investment services to over two million Canadians through IG Wealth Management and Mackenzie Investments.
Mackenzie Investments, founded in 1967, is a key part of IGM's business model, serving as a comprehensive asset-management partner for Canadian financial advisors and their clients.
At Mackenzie Investments You Can Build Your Career with Confidence. We are proud to be recognized as one of Canada’s Top 100 Employers for the fourth consecutive year and one of Canada’s Best Diversity Employers. Our vision and strategy aim to innovate the industry and support Canadians in achieving their financial goals.
Join our team to engage in continuous learning and skill development in a supportive environment. Experience the best of both worlds with our hybrid work environment, where you spend three days a week in the office, connecting, collaborating, and enjoying quality time with your amazing colleagues! Our Values: Be better; we strive for improvement in everything we do. Be accountable; we foster clarity and are empowered to act responsibly. Be a team; we are united to drive collective impact to achieve our goals.
The Opporunity:
Reporting to the AVP, Talent Acquisition, as Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition, you will play a critical role in delivering, shaping, and advancing recruitment strategy across a defined portfolio. Your primary focus will be supporting our Asset Management businesses, alongside select broader portfolios including Technology.
You will lead a small team of recruiters and operate as a key member of the Talent Acquisition leadership team, contributing to the direction, consistency, and ongoing evolution of the function.
This role balances hands-on recruitment leadership, people leadership, and enterprise-level contribution, ensuring high-quality hiring outcomes while helping advance Talent Acquisition as a modern, technology-enabled capability within the organization.
What you'll do:
Recruitment delivery & stakeholder partnership
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Lead end-to-end recruitment across a portfolio anchored in Asset Management, with additional oversight for Technology and other portfolios as required.
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Partner closely with HR Business Partners and Centres of Expertise (Total Rewards, L&D, HR Service Delivery) to ensure alignment between hiring and broader talent strategies.
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Develop deep, credible partnerships with business leaders by building a strong understanding of Asset Management functions, talent segments, and competitive market dynamics.
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Provide informed perspective on talent availability, competitor landscape, and hiring strategies, particularly within Asset Management.
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Act as a trusted advisor to hiring leaders, including executives, influencing decisions on role scoping, candidate assessment, selection, and offer strategy.
People leadership & team effectiveness
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Lead, coach, and develop a team of recruiters, building capability in consultative recruiting, proactive sourcing, and stakeholder management.
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Establish clear expectations and strong team operating rhythms, driving accountability across quality, pace, and experience.
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Foster a collaborative, team-first culture, aligned to broader TA and HR priorities.
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Provide day-to-day leadership, coaching, and direction to ensure consistent delivery of high-quality hiring outcomes.
TA leadership & functional contribution
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Operate as an active member of the Talent Acquisition leadership team, contributing to priorities, direction, and consistency of TA delivery across the enterprise.
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Partner with TA leadership and HR stakeholders to evolve recruitment practices, standards, and hiring capability across the organization.
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Lead or contribute to enterprise TA initiatives, including hiring excellence, process improvement, and capability-building efforts.
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Bring forward insights, trends, and perspectives from your portfolio to inform broader TA strategy and decision-making
Technology, innovation & future-focused TA enablement
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Leverage and champion modern recruiting technologies, including ATS/CRM platforms and emerging AI-enabled tools.
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Demonstrate a forward-looking mindset on the role of technology in enhancing sourcing, assessment, and candidate experience.
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Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, quality of hire, and decision-making through tech-enabled approaches, contributing to the ongoing evolution of TA capabilities.
Execution of critical hiring
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Personally lead and support complex and high-impact searches, ensuring strong assessment rigor and alignment to business needs.
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Deliver a high-quality, consistent candidate experience, reinforcing IGM’s brand in the market.
TA operations, process & analytics
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Ensure strong execution of TA governance, operating models, and best practices across your portfolio.
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Leverage data (e.g., time-to-fill, pipeline health, conversion metrics) to identify trends, risks, and improvement opportunities.
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Contribute to the continuous improvement of TA workflows, tools, and hiring practices.
Market insight, sourcing & pipelines
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Build and maintain proactive talent pipelines, particularly within Asset Management.
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Apply market insights, compensation awareness, and competitive intelligence to strengthen hiring strategies.
What you bring:
Experience
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8+ years of progressive Talent Acquisition experience, with full-cycle recruitment accountability in complex environments.
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Proven people leadership experience, including leading and developing a team of recruiters (required).
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Direct experience recruiting within Asset Management is strongly preferred, with deep domain understanding.
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Additional experience supporting Technology or other corporate portfolios is an asset.
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Demonstrated success hiring professional and leadership-level talent, including complex or niche roles.
Skills & attributes
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Strong stakeholder management and influencing capability, with the ability to partner effectively with senior leaders.
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Ability to balance hands-on delivery, team leadership, and contribution to broader TA priorities.
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Technology-forward mindset, with comfort leveraging recruiting systems, data, and emerging AI tools to enhance hiring outcomes.
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Highly collaborative, with a team-first leadership approach and strong relationship-building capability.
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Curious, solutions-oriented, and comfortable operating in a dynamic, evolving environment.
The expected annual base salary range for this role is $113,000 - $141,500, which is determined based on skills, knowledge and experience and geographic location. In addition to base salary, this role is eligible for annual short-term incentive, health and well-being benefits, retirement and savings plan, paid time off and career development.
Benefits:
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COMPETITIVE COMPENSATION & RECOGNITION: competitive base salary, performance-weighted bonus, education/career support, option to join Employee Share Purchase Plan with employer matching component.
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EMPLOYEE BENEFITS & INSURANCE: competitive health and dental coverage, flexible plan for you and your family and short-term & long-term disability plans.
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RETIREMENT SAVINGS PROGRAMS: voluntary Group RRSP enrolment with employer matching component.
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WORK LIFE BALANCE: paid volunteer days, competitive time off including 10 wellness days off, WorkPerks discount program, hybrid & flex work arrangements.
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INCLUSIVE CULTURE AND DIVERSITY: living our core values: Be a Team, Be Accountable, Be Better, engaging with community through Business Resource Groups (BRG communities are volunteer employee-led groups formed around a common interest, identity, or background).
IGM is a diverse workplace committed to doing business inclusively - this starts with having a representative workforce! We encourage applications from all qualified candidates that represent the diversity present across Canada – including racialized persons, women, Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, 2SLGBTQIA+ community, gender diverse and neurodiverse individuals, as well as all who may contribute to the further diversification of ideas.
Mackenzie Investments is an accessible employer committed to providing barrier-free recruitment experience. If you require accommodation or this information in an alternate format at any stage of the recruitment process, please reach out to the Talent Acquisition team who will work with you to meet your needs.
How to Apply: Interested candidates are invited to submit their resume and a cover letter detailing their qualifications and experience to https://www.mackenzieinvestments.com/en/careers.
Artificial Intelligence in Recruitment: As part of our Talent Acquisition process, we may use artificial intelligence and automated tools to support activities such as candidate sourcing, application review, and interview scheduling. These tools support the recruitment process; all hiring decisions are made by people.
We thank all applicants for their interest in Mackenzie Investments; however, only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.
Please apply by July 27 2026.
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