JOB PURPOSE
Lead the organization-wide, large or global risk management function, ensuring alignment with the organization's strategic objectives. Develop and implement strategies that deliver competitive advantages and advance the organization's strategic goals. Participate in and support vision and strategy development and decision-making for the entire organization. Translate the organization's mission, vision, and strategy into specific objectives and actionable plans for the risk management function.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Organizational Risk Management: Take responsibility for developing and delivering the organization's risk management and/or risk control policies and procedures.
Risk Scenario Modeling: Undertake strategic and tactical risk modeling and scenario planning to support business strategy and to identify and mitigate risk in line with the risk appetite. Advise on operationalizing risk appetite.
Functional Strategy Formation: Lead the development and implementation of strategy for a significant area of responsibility, anticipating complex issues, challenges, and opportunities and ensuring integration with wider corporate strategy.
Leadership and Direction: Identify and communicate the actions needed to implement the function's strategy and business plan within the business area or department; explain the relationship to the broader organization's mission,
vision, and values; motivate people to commit to these tenets and do extraordinary things to achieve local business goals.
Stakeholder Engagement: Identify and manage stakeholders up to and including top management level, finding out their needs, issues, and concerns and reacting to them by leading and coordinating the development of stakeholder engagement plans to support the communication of business information and decisions.
Corporate Representation: Represent the organization or institution in a variety of industry, institutional, and/or professional forums, boards, and committees, in order to promote the company or institution brand or efforts. Focus is on their own expertise. May involve preparation of presentations and materials for professional partnering meetings,
seminars, and conferences.
Information and Business Advice: Provide authoritative specialist advice to senior managers at the business unit or regional level to enable the implementation of policy, projects, and change initiatives.
Business Planning: Develop and gain agreement to annual business plans for a function or substantial business area, ensuring alignment with strategy; quantify business outcomes, i.e., revenues or other key performance indicators (KPIs); detail expense and headcount budgets; and develop business cases for key projects, ensuring cross-functional integration.
Budgeting: Develop and/or deliver budget plans with guidance from senior colleagues.
Performance Management: Develop and propose own performance objectives; take appropriate actions to ensure achievement of agreed objectives, using the organization's performance management systems to improve personal performance. Or manage and report on team performance; set appropriate performance objectives for direct reports or project/account team members and hold people accountable for achieving them, taking appropriate corrective action
where necessary to ensure the achievement of team/personal objective.
TASKS
ORGANIZATION RISK MANAGEMENT Lead and continuously enhance the Company's enterprise-wide risk management framework, governance, risk appetite, and policies. Identify, assess, monitor, and report material strategic, operational, financial, regulatory, geopolitical, cybersecurity, supply chain, and emerging risks. Ensure effective risk mitigation, ownership, monitoring, and timely escalation of material risks to Management and the Board. Strengthen enterprise resilience, business continuity, crisis preparedness, and risk culture.
RISK SCENARIO MODELING Lead enterprise-wide risk assessments, scenario analysis, stress testing, and modeling of significant internal and external risks. Assess the potential financial, operational, and strategic impact of scenarios such as geopolitical events, fuel price surges, economic volatility, supply disruptions, cyber incidents, and operational disruptions. Establish early-warning indicators and forward-looking risk analytics to identify emerging threats. Provide
actionable scenario-based insights to support contingency planning and executive decision-making.
FUNCTIONAL STRATEGY FORMATION Develop the Company's risk management strategy and align it with corporate objectives, business plans, and approved risk appetite. Provide independent risk advice on major strategic initiatives, including fleet, network, investments, partnerships, procurement, and transformation programs. Develop mitigation strategies for significant exposures, particularly fuel price volatility, geopolitical risks, financial risks, and supply chain
disruptions. Advise Management and the Board on emerging risks and their potential impact on the Company's long-term sustainability and competitiveness.
LEADERSHIP AND DIRECTION Provide strategic leadership and direction to the enterprise risk management function and build a high-performing risk team. Serve as the principal risk adviser to the President/CEO, Executive Management, and Board, providing independent judgment and objective challenge. Lead cross-functional risk management and promote accountability, collaboration, and a strong risk-aware culture. Provide strategic oversight and direction during
major risk events, crises, and business disruptions.
EDUCATION
College/ University Graduate. Masteral Degree or Equivalent is preferred but not required.
EXPERIENCE
General Experience: Experience level enables job holder to provide leadership to others regarding work related systems, processes and challenges (More than 15 years)
Managerial Experience: Experience of interpreting strategy and policy in order to set and deliver objectives within medium to long time frames (Over 10 years to 15 years)
