Director, Risk Management

White Cap Management • Atlanta, GA

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About The Position

The Director, Risk Management is a strategic leadership role responsible for protecting White Cap’s people, assets, financial performance, and long-term growth. The role oversees insurance, claims, and risk management and partners with Finance, Legal, Internal Audit, Environmental Health and Safety, Operations, Supply Chain, and other functions to strengthen risk mitigation and business resilience.

The position leads corporate insurance and risk strategy, provides oversight of claims and the Enterprise Risk Management program, and develops analytics and executive reporting. It also oversees loss-reserve actuarial work and risk-management budgets, supports acquisition due diligence and integration, coordinates surety and bonding needs, and leads risk-management professionals.

Requirements

• Typically requires a bachelor’s degree in a related discipline.
• Typically requires 9 or more years of experience in a related field, including several years in a management or supervisory capacity.
• Strong knowledge of commercial insurance, casualty claims, loss analysis, and risk-financing concepts, with the ability to translate complex matters into practical business recommendations.
• Demonstrated analytical, financial, project-management, and executive communication skills, including the ability to influence senior leaders across functions.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree in Risk Management, Finance, Accounting, Business, or a related discipline.
• 10 or more years of progressive corporate risk management, commercial insurance, brokerage, claims, risk financing, or related experience, including leadership of complex programs and professional staff.
• Experience managing RMIS platforms.
• ARM, CPCU, CRM, or a comparable designation.
• Experience with ERM, M&A integration, captive or alternative risk financing, and operationally complex industries.

Responsibilities

• Lead White Cap’s corporate insurance and risk strategy, including program design, renewals, coverage analysis, market benchmarking, policy review, and evaluation of limits, retentions, and alternative risk-transfer structures.
• Manage relationships with brokers, carriers, underwriters, actuaries, third-party administrators, and other external risk partners, and represent White Cap in insurance-market and underwriting discussions.
• Provide strategic oversight of workers’ compensation, casualty, and other claims, including complex-claim review, reserve management, vendor performance, litigation coordination, and initiatives to reduce claim frequency, severity, and total cost of risk.
• Support the Enterprise Risk Management program, including enterprise risk assessments, emerging-risk identification, risk prioritization, risk appetite, key risk indicators, mitigation plans, and escalation protocols.
• Partner with senior leaders and risk owners to establish clear ownership, measurable actions, and ongoing monitoring of enterprise risks aligned with strategic priorities.
• Develop risk dashboards, claims analytics, and executive reporting; communicate material trends, emerging exposures, and recommendations to senior management and Board-level audiences.
• Oversee loss-reserve actuarial work, evaluate assumptions and reserve estimates, and manage risk-management budgets, forecasts, and loss-allocation reporting.
• Lead insurance and risk-management due diligence for acquisitions and support integration of acquired businesses into White Cap’s insurance, claims, and risk programs.
• Coordinate surety and bonding needs with brokers, Legal, Finance, and operating teams, and support contractual insurance and risk-transfer requirements.
• Lead and develop risk-management professionals while fostering collaboration, accountability, continuous improvement, and strong service to the business.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director