Associate Vice President, Litigation, TD Insurance

Work Location:

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Hours:

37.5

Line of Business:

TD Insurance

Pay Details:

$200,000 - $250,000 CAD

This role is eligible for a discretionary variable compensation award that considers business and individual performance.

TD is committed to providing fair and equitable compensation opportunities to all colleagues. Growth opportunities and skill development are defining features of the colleague experience at TD. Our compensation policies and practices have been designed to allow colleagues to progress through the salary range over time as they progress in their role. The base pay actually offered may vary based upon the candidate's skills and experience, job-related knowledge, geographic location, and other specific business and organizational needs.

As a candidate, you are encouraged to ask compensation related questions and have an open dialogue with your recruiter who can provide you more specific details for this role.

Job Description:

Department Overview

TD Insurance is part of TD Bank Group, one of Canada’s largest financial institutions. TD Insurance helps protect clients from the ‘accidents of life’ with a wide range of products including credit protection, life, health, travel, home and auto insurance. With more than four million clients, TD Insurance authorized products and services are available online, over the phone, and through a network of more than 1,000 TD Canada Trust branches.

In Canada, we have two lines of business, General Insurance and Life and Health. Our General Insurance business is one of the top homes and auto insurance groups in Canada and the national leader in group insurance and affinity marketing. Our Life and Health business is the number one provider of critical illness insurance and direct life and health insurance in Canada.

At TD Insurance, we are committed to fostering an inclusive, accessible environment. With a Canada-wide workforce of over 6,000 employees and offices in Atlantic Canada, Quebec, Ontario and Alberta, our company is always growing and can help you to grow. TD Insurance offers a stable and dynamic work environment where talent is appreciated, and professional development is taken seriously. More than just a job, we offer rewarding careers.

Key Responsibilities

Reporting to the Vice President, Litigation and Fraud, TD Insurance, the Associate Vice President, TDI Litigation provides strategic leadership for a national litigation team, ensuring TD Insurance and its customers are expertly represented before all levels of court and tribunal, and throughout all stages of litigation.

Key Accountabilities include:

• Lead and inspire a high-performing national Claims Litigation Services team of approximately 250 lawyers and support staff, fostering a culture of excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement

• Consistently deliver best-in-class litigation outcomes for TD Insurance and its customers, focusing on indemnity, cycle time, closed-to-open ratio, and cost per case

• Drive operational efficiency and achieve significant expense and indemnity savings by aligning team performance with business metrics and demonstrating courtroom excellence

• Build strategic partnerships with Accident Benefits, Bodily Injury, residential, fraud, and subrogation teams, providing expert legal guidance for complex claims resolution

• Cultivate strong relationships with Government Industry Relations and regulatory bodies, advocating for TD Insurance’s interests and contributing to positive regulatory change

• Modernize legal team strategy through data-driven decision-making, adoption of modern business practices, AI deployment, and effective resource management

• Attract, develop, and retain a diverse, highly skilled talent base to meet strategic objectives

• Act as a subject matter expert on claims regulations across all Canadian jurisdictions, proactively identifying and mitigating legal risks

• Collaborate with TD Legal to ensure efficient referral of new litigated matters to appropriate defense counsel, optimizing outcomes and resource allocation

• Engage with Claims Litigation Services teams nationwide to ensure alignment, support, and effective communication

Qualifications & Experience

• Licensed lawyer in good standing with a provincial law society with the ability to be licensed in Ontario or Alberta (or both), with 10–15 years of progressive experience in insurance defense litigation.

• Demonstrated expertise in trial advocacy, including both traditional and less adversarial forums (e.g., LAT), with a proven track record of successful outcomes.

• Recognized for making a measurable impact—developing and executing strategies that deliver superior results in both the short and long term.

• Exceptional leadership skills, with the ability to inspire, influence, and manage stakeholders across TD Insurance.

• Proven experience managing and developing a diverse team across multiple locations, fostering an inclusive and high-performance culture.

• Outstanding communicator, able to engage and influence colleagues, business partners, and external stakeholders at all organizational levels.

• Advanced written and verbal communication, negotiation, and partnership skills—adept at balancing stakeholder input while maintaining focus on strategic objectives.

• Strong collaborator with a history of working effectively in cross-functional teams and with multiple stakeholders at varying levels of the organization.

• Demonstrated success in leading large-scale change initiatives and driving organizational transformation.

• Ability to identify and deliver synergies across teams and functions, promoting a collaborative and unified approach.

Leadership Skills

• Builds and retains an engaged, high-performing, and diverse team that values creativity, curiosity, and diversity of thought—ensuring every colleague and customer feels respected, valued, and heard.

• Proactively identifies, recruits, and develops top talent, cultivating a robust and diverse pipeline to drive innovation and maximize individual strengths for superior business outcomes.

• Enables colleague growth by encouraging ongoing development, providing timely feedback, and recognizing achievements to help colleagues reach their career and business objectives.

• Promotes a continuous learning culture by actively seeking, listening to, and acting on feedback from colleagues and peers to enhance the colleague experience.

• Fosters knowledge sharing and collaboration, ensuring timely management and escalation of issues, and creating opportunities for cross-functional teamwork.

• Leads teams through change by modeling resilience and flexibility, communicating a clear and compelling vision, and empowering colleagues to challenge the status quo and drive innovation in a psychologically safe environment.

• Drives a high-performance culture by setting clear targets and objectives, facilitating ongoing feedback and coaching, and conducting regular performance check-ins to ensure accountability and deliver business results.

Who We Are:

TD is one of the world's leading global financial institutions and is the fifth largest bank in North America by branches/stores. Every day, we deliver legendary customer experiences to over 27 million households and businesses in Canada, the United States and around the world. More than 95,000 TD colleagues bring their skills, talent, and creativity to the Bank, those we serve, and the economies we support. We are guided by our vision to Be the Better Bank and our purpose to enrich the lives of our customers, communities and colleagues.

TD is deeply committed to being a leader in customer experience, that is why we believe that all colleagues, no matter where they work, are customer facing. As we build our business and deliver on our strategy, we are innovating to enhance the customer experience and build capabilities to shape the future of banking. Whether you’ve got years of banking experience or are just starting your career in financial services, we can help you realize your potential. Through regular leadership and development conversations to mentorship and training programs, we’re here to support you towards your goals. As an organization, we keep growing – and so will you.

Our Total Rewards Package
Our Total Rewards package reflects the investments we make in our colleagues to help them and their families achieve their financial, physical, and mental well-being goals. Total Rewards at TD includes a base salary, variable compensation, and several other key plans such as health and well-being benefits, savings and retirement programs, paid time off, banking benefits and discounts, career development, and reward and recognition programs. Learn more

Additional Information:
We’re delighted that you’re considering building a career with TD. Through regular development conversations, training programs, and a competitive benefits plan, we’re committed to providing the support our colleagues need to thrive both at work and at home.

Please be advised that this job opportunity is subject to provincial regulation for employment purposes. It is imperative to acknowledge that each province or territory within the jurisdiction of Canada may have its own set of regulations, requirements.

Colleague Development
If you’re interested in a specific career path or are looking to build certain skills, we want to help you succeed. You’ll have regular career, development, and performance conversations with your manager, as well as access to an online learning platform and a variety of mentoring programs to help you unlock future opportunities. Whether you have a passion for helping customers and want to expand your experience, or you want to coach and inspire your colleagues, there are many different career paths within our organization at TD – and we’re committed to helping you identify opportunities that support your goals.
 

Training & Onboarding
We will provide training and onboarding sessions to ensure that you’ve got everything you need to succeed in your new role.

Interview Process 
We’ll reach out to candidates of interest to schedule an interview. We do our best to communicate outcomes to all applicants by email or phone call.

Accommodation
Your accessibility is important to us. Please let us know if you’d like accommodations (including accessible meeting rooms, captioning for virtual interviews, etc.) to help us remove barriers so that you can participate throughout the interview process.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Language Requirement (Quebec only):

Sans Objet