Executive Director, Enterprise Regional Enablement

Reinsurance Group of America • Boulogne-Billancourt, Missouri

5d • $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 Centers of Excellence (CoE) assets for regional use, adapting them to local regulatory regimes, business lines, and operating maturity while preserving enterprise standards. The position builds regional risk practitioner capability and serves as the primary enablement interface between enterprise and regional stakeholders.

The Executive Director partners with regional business unit heads and stakeholders across the first, second, and third lines of defense; deploys regional risk staff as embedded advisors; leads regional control programs; and supports training, risk culture, regulatory monitoring, incident triage, and change management. The role also quality-controls regional risk data for enterprise reporting, contributes regional insights to committee briefings, supports risk exposure quantification, represents regional needs in GRC platform decisions, and manages and develops a high-performing regional team.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Arts/Sciences (BA/BS) in Risk Management, Finance, Business, Economics, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 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.
• 5+ years of people management experience, including building or leading teams in a regional or matrixed environment.
• 5+ years of experience in the insurance or reinsurance industry.
• 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 new risk management practices, tools, or frameworks, with a coaching-oriented approach to capability building and applied knowledge of effective change management principles.
• Proven proficiency in AI, spreadsheets, and databases.
• Deep working knowledge of operational risk management frameworks and methodologies, including RCA, KRI, scenario analysis, and loss event capture, as well as 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.
• Demonstrated 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 that account for local constraints and opportunities.

Nice To Haves

• 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 regional 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 requirements without changing underlying enterprise standards.
• Coordinate access to specialty CoE services and contextualize CoE playbooks for regional operating environments as needed.
• Deploy regional analysts and leads as embedded advisors for Risk and Control Assessments (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, overseeing first-line control monitoring, testing, and effectiveness evaluation, and tracking control gaps and remediation.
• Partner with regional Internal Audit and local compliance teams on integrated control assurance and align regional RCA outputs and testing results with enterprise frameworks, assurance programs, and reporting.
• Coordinate regional training calendars, risk practitioner communities of practice, and roundtables; champion regional operational risk culture change and support enterprise change initiatives.
• Feed regional learning needs back to the ED, Enterprise Ops Risk Enablement Strategy, Framework & Reporting.
• Monitor regional regulatory developments; brief the VP, Head of Enterprise Operational Risk Enablement, and relevant CoEs on emerging requirements; build relationships with regulatory-facing teams; and triage and route emerging-risk issues.
• Ensure regional risk data flows into enterprise reporting, quality-control regional submissions, and contribute regional 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 drive adoption and effective use of enterprise tools.
• Build and develop a high-performing regional team, managing analysts and leads, talent development, succession planning, and performance management.

Benefits

• Annual bonus plan covering all roles.
• Some positions are eligible for participation in a long-term equity incentive plan.
• Health, retirement, and other employee benefits.
• Opportunity to learn from and work with diverse, caring colleagues around the world.
• Respectful, welcoming environment that fosters individuality and encourages pioneering thought.
• Career development potential.

What This Job Offers

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