Risk Manager

You will identify, assess and manage legal and regulatory risks across business operations, contracts and strategic initiatives. You will develop and maintain legal risk assessment frameworks, policies and mitigation strategies. You will support litigation, regulatory inquiries and compliance matters and prepare risk reporting for leadership. You will advise stakeholders on contractual and regulatory exposure, contribute to incident response and investigations, and promote a risk-aware culture.

Responsibilities

• Identify assess and manage legal and regulatory risks across business operations contracts and strategic initiatives
• Develop and maintain legal risk assessment frameworks policies and mitigation strategies
• Partner with internal legal counsel and external advisors on litigation disputes regulatory inquiries and compliance matters
• Review and assess risk exposure related to contracts commercial agreements partnerships and vendor relationships
• Monitor changes in laws regulations and industry standards and advise stakeholders on impact
• Lead risk reporting and escalation including preparation of materials for senior leadership and governance committees
• Support enterprise risk management initiatives with a legal risk lens
• Contribute to incident response investigations and remediation efforts
• Promote a strong risk aware and compliance focused culture across the organization

Requirements

• 5–7 years of experience in legal risk management compliance legal advisory or related roles
• Bachelor’s degree in Law Business Risk Management or a related field JD or equivalent strongly preferred
• Solid understanding of legal regulatory and compliance risk frameworks
• Experience working with contracts litigation risk regulatory compliance and corporate governance
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to evaluate risk and recommend pragmatic solutions
• Excellent communication skills able to explain legal risks clearly to non legal stakeholders
• Proven ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast paced environment
• Experience in regulated industries such as financial services technology energy healthcare crypto or fintech (preferred)
• Familiarity with enterprise risk management ERM (preferred)
• Exposure to international or cross border regulatory environments (preferred)
• Professional certifications such as CRMP CCEP CRCM are a plus

Benefits

• Hybrid work schedule Monday to Thursday in office Friday work from home
• Travel up to 30% to visit sites in North America