Senior Corporate Legal Expert, Commercial Insurance Strategy

2 weeks ago


Mississauga, Ontario, Canada Desjardins Group Full time

Job Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Corporate Legal Counsel to join our commercial insurance corporate legal team at Desjardins Group. As a key member of this team, you will play a vital role in protecting the organization's legal interests by ensuring its rights are protected and regulatory obligations are met.

In this role, you will be responsible for advising on operational matters, insurance products, and best practices for the commercial insurance, surety, and property and casualty personal lines of business. You will lead and influence development projects and complex, highly innovative strategic initiatives. Your recommendations on the planning and execution of operationally and conceptually complex projects and initiatives will require comprehensive analysis and understanding of the organization and lines of business.

Key Responsibilities

  • Review insurance products/wordings and regulatory framework for commercial insurance and surety, and personal home and automobile lines of business.
  • Draft and negotiate commercial contracts including broker distribution channel.
  • Assist and provide legal advice to claims department, including policy coverages.
  • Lead specialized development projects, initiatives, and activities that significantly impact the entire organization.
  • Advise clients and partners to help them position, plan, develop, execute, and monitor strategic projects and initiatives.
  • Identify, analyze, and diagnose major issues and make recommendations to decision-making bodies.
  • Interpret laws and regulations, issue legal opinions, and prepare and validate rules, standards, policies, procedures, forms, and agreements affecting the organization.
  • Represent the company with regulator engagements as appropriate and represent your department before senior management committees and decision-making bodies.


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