AVP Future Workforce

TD; Toronto; On-site; CAD 155,000 - 215,000; Full time

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Job summary

TD seeks an AVP, Future Workforce to shape TD's workforce for the future. The role leads strategy, frameworks, and solutions, driving insights on AI, skills, and workforce models to inform business planning and transformation across HR, AI, Technology and Finance.

The successful candidate will design standards for human and AI-enabled work, partner with leadership to turn insights into measurable actions, and guide executives on workforce readiness and governance in a regulated environment.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in workforce strategy or related fields.
• Experience leading high-performing teams and driving transformation.
• Strong communication and influencing skills; ability to challenge and drive decisions.

Responsibilities

• Lead TD's Future Workforce Strategy and translate AI/tech insights into workforce design and roadmaps.
• Lead Skills Strategy including identifying gaps, investments, and capability requirements.
• Lead Research & Insight, benchmarking and turning signals into actionable recommendations.
• Oversee Workforce Planning & Decision Support, including forecasting, scenarios, and capacity insights.

Skills

Future workforce strategy

Strategic planning

Change management

Communication

Influencing

Education

University degree in business, HR, organizational effectiveness, strategy, or related field

Job description

Work Location:

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Hours:

37.5

Line of Business:

Human Resources

Pay Details:

$155,000 - $215,000 CAD

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:

Reporting to the VP, Organization Effectiveness & Future Workforce, the AVP, Future Workforce helps TD understand, shape, and prepare its workforce for the future.

This role leads the strategy, framework and solutions and provides expert advice and design work for businesses transforming. The Future Workforce mandate includes Skills Intelligence and the workforce implications of AI. It connects business strategy, workforce capabilities, skills, capacity, external trends, and emerging technology into practical choices leaders can act on. The role is responsible for building insights, methods, and perspectives that help the bank anticipate change, strengthen workforce capability, and make better workforce decisions.

The successful candidate can move seamlessly from strategy to execution, translating insights into practical solutions and measurable results. They are a transformational thinker who challenges the status quo, anticipates the future of business and work, and refuses to accept mediocrity. An influential communicator with strong commercial acumen, exceptional consulting skills, sound judgment, and operational discipline, they inspire confidence and drive outcomes.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES INCLUDE:

Lead TD's Future Workforce Strategy

• Build TD's perspective on the future of work, translating advancements in AI, technology, skills, and workforce models into workforce structure and role design.
• Lead workforce planning and scenario development, tying workforce plans to financial and business plans.
• Define the workforce implications of TD's business strategy, including future workforce models, critical capabilities, and workforce transformation priorities.
• Partner across HR, AI, Technology and Finance to convert future workforce insights into business-level and bank-wide strategies, roadmaps, and measurable actions.
• Lead TD's approach to work redesign, helping leaders determine how work, roles, skills, and workforce models should evolve as AI and technology reshape the enterprise.
• Establish standards and frameworks for human and AI-enabled work, including workforce implications, accountability models, governance requirements, and organizational readiness.

Lead Skills Strategy

• Lead skills strategy, including identifying critical skills, gaps, workforce risks, and emerging opportunities.
• Provide advice on workforce composition, investments, capability requirements, capacity, and risks.

Research & Insight

• Lead research and benchmarking
• Translate signals and leading practices into actionable insight, recommendations, and decision support.

Workforce Planning & Decision Support

• Create and deploy workforce planning methodologies and capabilities.
• Train HR, Finance and business leaders to develop high quality plans
• Oversee forecasting, scenario planning, risk assessment, and capacity insights that support better business and investment decisions.

Job Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in workforce strategy, strategic planning, organization effectiveness, organization design, management consulting, business transformation, talent strategy, or a related field.
• Networked externally covering academia, tech firms, research organizations and industry
• Strong communication and influencing skills, with ability to challenge, simplify, and drive decisions
• Able to turn insight into solutions
• Track record of leading high-performing teams, hiring and developing top talent
• University degree in business, HR, organizational effectiveness, strategy, or a related field.

Preferred Attributes

We're looking for someone who:

• Sees around corners and can translate the future into practical choices for today.
• Thinks like a strategist, executes like an operator, and follows through with discipline.
• Is energized by the intersection of workforce strategy, skills, future workforce transformation, and AI.
• Has the courage to challenge assumptions while building trusted partnerships.
• Brings ambition, grit, and a desire to win, without ego.
• Inspires leaders and teams with a clear, practical vision of what is possible.
• Moves from insight to action with urgency, persistence, and accountability.
• Balances imagination with pragmatism in a large, regulated organization.

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 strive to make every interaction, product, and experience remarkably human and refreshingly simple for 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 foster deeper relationships, ensure disciplined execution, and build a simpler, faster banking experience. TD is deeply committed to being a leader in client experience, that is why we believe that all colleagues, no matter where they work, are client facing. Together, we are reimagining what banking can be for our clients, colleagues and communities.

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.

If you're passionate about helping clients and building deep, lasting relationships, TD offers diverse career paths where you can grow your expertise and make a meaningful impact.

We're committed to your success and foster a respectful workplace where diverse perspectives are valued, everyone has fair opportunities to grow, and you can unlock your full potential to achieve your career goals. Here at TD, we hire and develop the best.

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.

Language Requirement (Quebec only):

Sans Objet