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Executive Director, Enterprise Regional Enablement
Posted 41 minutes ago
About the role
- Operational risk enablement leader translating RGA’s reinsurance risk frameworks across regional businesses. Leading controls, regulatory alignment, GRC adoption, and geographically dispersed teams.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the accountable operational risk enablement leader for assigned regions
- Partner with regional business unit heads and maintain regular engagement to understand needs, track progress, and resolve barriers
- Build relationships with regional business leaders, local compliance teams, Internal Audit, and other stakeholders across the three lines of defense
- Translate enterprise frameworks, methodologies, KRI standards, taxonomies, and reporting templates for regional use while incorporating local requirements
- Coordinate with specialty Centers of Excellence and contextualize specialty playbooks for regional operating environments
- Deploy regional analysts and leads as embedded advisors for RCAs, KRI design, incident write-ups, scenario analysis, and remediation planning
- Coach first-line practitioners to execute risk activities independently
- Lead regional control programs, including control monitoring, testing, effectiveness evaluation, gap tracking, and remediation
- Partner with Internal Audit and compliance teams on integrated control assurance
- Coordinate training calendars, practitioner communities of practice, and regional roundtables
- Champion operational risk culture change and support enterprise change management initiatives
- Monitor regulatory developments and triage significant incidents and emerging risks
- Brief enterprise operational risk leadership and Centers of Excellence on emerging requirements
- Ensure regional risk data flows into enterprise reporting and quality-control regional submissions
- Contribute regional risk insights, themes, and data to Board and risk committee briefing papers
- Support regional risk exposure quantification, scenario analysis, and loss modeling
- Represent regional user needs in GRC platform decisions and drive enterprise tooling adoption
- Build and develop a high-performing regional team, including talent development, succession planning, and performance management
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Arts/Sciences (BA/BS) in Risk Management, Finance, Business, Economics, or related field, or equivalent experience required
- 10+ Years of progressive experience in operational risk management, enterprise risk, internal audit, internal controls, or a related second-line risk function within financial services or insurance, including demonstrated experience designing or maintaining a risk management framework required
- 5+ Years of people management experience, including building or leading teams in a regional or matrixed environment required
- 5+ Years of experience in the insurance or reinsurance industry required
- 3+ Years of experience working across multiple geographies, regulatory regimes, or cultural contexts
- Proven proficiency in AI, spreadsheets, and databases required
- Experience working with an Enterprise Integrated Risk Management / GRC platform (e.g., ServiceNow IRM, Archer, MetricStream) required
- Experience driving adoption of new risk management practices, tools, or frameworks, with a coaching-oriented approach to capability building and applied knowledge of effective change management principles required
- Deep working knowledge of operational risk management frameworks and methodologies, including RCA, KRI, scenario analysis, and loss event capture, and related regulatory expectations including NAIC ORSA, Solvency II, COSO, and ISO 31000
- Proficiency with GRC platforms, reporting and visualization tools such as Power BI, and emerging AI tools applied to risk reporting and analytics
- Ability to lead, influence, and build trust across diverse cultural, regulatory, and linguistic contexts, including managing geographically dispersed virtual teams
- Ability to translate enterprise-level strategy into regional execution plans accounting for local constraints and opportunities
- Professional risk management certification such as FRM, PRM, ORM, or CRMA
- 12+ years of operational risk management experience, including framework design and engagement with senior executives, regulators, and the Board preferred
- Experience designing risk quantification approaches covering inherent/residual risk and control effectiveness preferred
- Lean / Six Sigma or Change Management certification preferred
Benefits
- Annual bonus plan
- Long-term equity incentive plan eligibility for some positions
- Health benefits
- Retirement benefits
- Other employee benefits
- Diverse, caring colleagues around the world
- Respectful, welcoming environment that fosters individuality and pioneering thought
- Vast career potential
- AI-supported personalized job recommendations, interview scheduling, candidate chatbot answers, and experience-based preliminary screening
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