Project Manager, Risk Americas

Daikin Comfort • Waller, TX

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About The Position

The Risk Committee PMO role serves as the operational backbone for the Americas Risk Committee (ARC) and its related risk oversight functions, including Enterprise Risk Management (ERM), Internal Audit, and Legal & Regulatory Compliance. The PMO is responsible for building and running the project infrastructure that keeps risk and compliance initiatives moving. This includes designing, coordinating, and operationalizing the governance infrastructure supporting the ARC. This role serves as the central integrator of risk information, governance processes, and executive reporting, ensuring the ARC operates as a highly effective, decision-oriented executive forum. Japanese language skills and familiarity with Daikin culture are strongly desired.

Requirements

• Strong project-management and organization skills
• Experience with executive-level reporting and communication
• Ability to synthesize complex information into clear insights
• Enterprise mindset and cross-functional collaboration
• Strong facilitation and stakeholder influence skills
• High attention to detail with strategic perspective
• Ability to operate effectively in ambiguity and transformation
• Strong strategic thinking capabilities with the ability to naturally translate strategy into plans for execution
• An open, inclusive, team-oriented work style and the ability to collaborate and build strong relationships with employees and leaders at all levels of the organization
• A commitment to the pursuit of excellence, demonstrates a willingness to speak honestly, listen openly, and lead purposefully
• Solid understanding of business concepts, strategic alignment and identification of talent implications
• Excellent strategic planning and operational deployment skills with the ability to integrate and align strategy, people, and activities across functions, processes, and teams
• Ability to grasp issues quickly and form, initiate and carry through design to implementation and measurement
• Ability to thrive and pivot in a fast-paced work environment while navigating change
• Intuitive, strategic and conceptual thinker with an orientation to detail and results
• 12+ years of experience in corporate function project management.
• Strong PowerPoint and executive presentation development skills
• Bachelor’s Degree required

Nice To Haves

• Japanese language skills
• Familiarity with Daikin culture
• Knowledge and experience with Internal Audit, Compliance, or Risk Management a plus
• Experience supporting executive governance committees preferred
• Familiarity with COSO ERM, IIA Standards, or similar frameworks
• PMP certification preferred

Responsibilities

• Plan, coordinate, and manage all ARC meetings (quarterly and ad hoc)
• Develop decision-focused agendas aligned to ARC priorities with input from ARC facilitators (i.e., Jaime and Manish)
• Prepare and distribute integrated pre-read materials
• Facitate meeting logistics and ensure clear documentation of outcomes
• Maintain action logs, decision registers, and follow-up tracking
• Track remediation actions, owners, and timelines
• Monitor progress against risk mitigation plans and KPIs/KRIs
• Escalate delays, gaps, or issues to ARC leadership
• Ensure closure and validation of risk actions
• Consolidate inputs from ERM, Internal Audit, and Legal & Compliance
• Develop a single, integrated ARC reporting package
• Ensure consistency in risk taxonomy, scoring, and messaging
• Highlight cross-discipline risk convergence
• Produce executive-level dashboards, heat maps, and trend analysis
• Serve as the primary liaison across ERM, Internal Audit, Legal & Compliance
• Partner with functional leaders to improve risk reporting quality
• Support onboarding of new ARC members and participants
• Provide guidance on ARC expectations, roles, and governance processes
• Perform additional activities/projects to support ongoing business needs

Benefits

• equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants regardless of a person’s race, color, religion (including religious dress or grooming practices), creed, national origin (including language use restrictions), citizenship, uniform service member or veteran status, ancestry, disability, physical or mental disability (including HIV/AIDS), medical condition (including cancer and genetic characteristics), genetic information, request for protected leave, marital status, sex, pregnancy, age (over 40), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, political affiliation, or any other characteristic protected by law.
• Will comply with all federal and state regulations and statutes pertaining to individuals with disabilities.

What This Job Offers

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