Executive Director, Enterprise Regional Enablement

Reinsurance Group of America, Incorporated•Chesterfield, MO

6d•$126,710 - $188,840•Remote

About The Position

The Executive Director, Enterprise Regional Enablement, is the single accountable leader for operational risk enablement within assigned regions. The role translates enterprise frameworks, methodologies, and Center of Excellence (CoE) assets for regional use, adapting their application to local regulatory regimes, business lines, and operating maturity while preserving enterprise standards. The Executive Director builds regional risk-practitioner capability, supports consistent implementation of enterprise standards, and serves as the primary enablement interface between enterprise and regional stakeholders. The role partners with regional business-unit heads and stakeholders across the first, second, and third lines of defense; deploys regional risk professionals as embedded advisors; and leads regional control-program execution and integrated control assurance. It also supports regional training and risk culture, monitors regulatory developments and emerging risks, helps ensure regional data is incorporated into enterprise reporting, supports risk quantification, represents regional user needs in GRC platform decisions, and manages and develops a high-performing regional team.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Risk Management, Finance, Business, Economics, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
At least 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 experience designing or maintaining a risk management framework.
At least 5 years of people-management experience, including building or leading teams in a regional or matrixed environment.
At least 5 years of experience in the insurance or reinsurance industry.
At least 3 years of experience working across multiple geographies, regulatory regimes, or cultural contexts.
Experience working with an Enterprise Integrated Risk Management/GRC platform, such as ServiceNow IRM, Archer, or MetricStream.
Experience driving adoption of risk-management practices, tools, or frameworks, using a coaching-oriented approach to capability building and applied knowledge of change-management principles.
Proficiency with AI, spreadsheets, and databases.
Deep working knowledge of operational risk frameworks and methodologies, including RCA, KRI, scenario analysis, and loss-event capture, and related regulatory expectations such as NAIC ORSA, Solvency II, COSO, and ISO 31000.
Proficiency with GRC platforms such as Archer, ServiceNow IRM, or MetricStream; 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 experience managing geographically dispersed virtual teams.
Ability to translate enterprise strategy into regional execution plans that account for local constraints and opportunities.

Nice To Haves

At least 12 years of operational risk management experience, including framework design and engagement with senior executives, regulators, and the Board.
Experience designing risk-quantification approaches covering inherent and residual risk and control effectiveness.
Professional risk-management certification such as FRM, PRM, ORM, or CRMA.
Lean/Six Sigma or change-management certification.

Responsibilities

Serve as the operational risk enablement partner for regional business-unit heads, maintain regular engagement, understand needs, track progress, and resolve barriers.
Build and maintain relationships with regional business leaders, local compliance teams, Internal Audit, and other stakeholders across the first, second, and third lines of defense.
Translate enterprise frameworks, methodologies, KRI standards, taxonomies, and reporting templates for regional use, incorporating local overlays and business specifics without changing enterprise standards.
Coordinate access to specialty CoE services and contextualize specialty playbooks for regional operating environments as needed.
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 perform risk activities independently.
Lead the regional control program by implementing enterprise control standards and assessment methodologies consistently across assigned regions.
Oversee first-line regional control monitoring, testing, and effectiveness evaluation; track control gaps and remediation; and partner with Internal Audit and local compliance on integrated control assurance.
Support alignment of regional RCA outputs and control-testing results with the enterprise control framework, assurance program, and reporting.
Coordinate regional training calendars, risk-practitioner communities of practice, and roundtables; champion operational risk culture change and support regional enterprise change initiatives.
Share regional learning needs with the ED, Enterprise Ops Risk Enablement Strategy, Framework & Reporting.
Monitor regional regulatory developments; serve as the initial contact for significant incidents or emerging risks; brief the VP, Head of Enterprise Operational Risk Enablement, and relevant CoEs; and route issues to appropriate CoEs or Oversight functions.
Build relationships with regional regulatory-facing teams so Enablement is engaged early and enterprise visibility of issues is established promptly.
Ensure regional risk data flows into enterprise reporting and quality-control regional submissions before integration into enterprise datasets.
Contribute regional risk insights, themes, and data to briefing papers for the Board Risk Committee, Risk Management Steering Committee, and Operational Risk Committee.
Support regional execution of risk exposure quantification methodologies, including scenario analysis and loss modeling, in coordination with the enterprise Risk Quantification CoE.
Represent regional user needs in GRC platform decisions and partner with the ED, Enterprise Ops Risk Enablement Strategy, Framework & Reporting, to promote adoption and effective use of enterprise tools.
Build and develop a high-performing regional team; manage in-region analysts and leads, including talent development, succession planning, and performance management.