Executive Director, Enterprise Regional Enablement

RGA Enterprise Services Company; Chesterfield (MO); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

RGA seeks an Executive Director, Enterprise Regional Enablement, to lead operational risk enablement for regional business units. You will translate enterprise frameworks, standards, and CoEs into regional practices, ensuring regulatory overlays and local specifics are integrated without changing core standards.

You will deploy embedded risk advisors, coach frontline teams, and oversee the regional RCAs, KRI design, incident write-ups, and remediation planning, while driving regional control

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Arts/Sciences (BA/BS) in Risk Management, Finance, Business, Economics, or related field, or equivalent experience required
• 10+ years of progressive experience in operational risk management, enterprise risk, internal audit, internal controls, or related second-line risk function

Responsibilities

• Serve as the named operational risk enablement partner for regional business unit heads - maintaining regular engagement with each major regional business unit to understand needs, track progress, and resolve barriers.
• Translate the enterprise framework, methodologies, KRI standards, taxonomies, and reporting templates for regional use, incorporating local regulatory overlays, language, currency, and business-line specifics without altering the underlying enterprise standard.
• Deploy the regional team (analysts, leads) as embedded advisors to regional business units executing RCAs, KRI design, incident write-ups, scenario analysis, and remediation planning.
• Coach first-line practitioners to execute risk activities independently.
• Lead the regional control program - implement enterprise control standards and control-assessment methodologies consistently across the assigned regions, tracking gaps and remediation.
• Coordinate with regional risk leaders on training calendars, risk communities of practice, and regional roundtables.

Skills

Operational risk management

Internal audit

Risk controls

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Risk Management, Finance, Business, Economics or related field

Job description

About RGA

You desire impactful work.You're RGA readyRGA is a purpose-driven organization working to solve today's challenges through innovation and collaboration. A Fortune 200 Company and listed among its World's Most Admired Companies , we're the only global reinsurance company to focus primarily on life- and health-related solutions. Join our multinational team of intelligent, motivated, and collaborative people, and help us make financial protection accessible to all.

Executive Director, Enterprise Regional Enablement

The Executive Director, Enterprise Regional Enablement, serves as the single accountable leader for operational risk enablement within assigned regions. The role holder translates enterprise frameworks, methodologies, and Centers of Excellence (CoE) assets for regional use, adapting to local regulatory regimes, business lines, and operating maturity. This includes building regional risk practitioner capability, ensuring enterprise standards are implemented consistently, and serving as the primary enablement interface between enterprise and regional stakeholders.

What you will do

Serve as the named operational risk enablement partner for regional business unit heads - maintaining a regular engagement cadence with each major regional business unit to understand needs, track progress, and resolve barriers - and build and maintain productive relationships with regional business leaders, local compliance teams, Internal Audit, and other key stakeholders across the first, second, and third lines of defense.

Translate the enterprise framework, methodologies, Key Risk Indicator (KRI) standards, taxonomies, and reporting templates for regional use - incorporating local regulatory overlays, language, currency, and business-line specifics without altering the underlying enterprise standard - and coordinate with specialty CoEs so regional businesses can access their services, contextualizing specialty playbooks for the regional operating environment as needed.

Deploy the regional team (analysts, leads) as embedded advisors to regional business units executing Risk and Control Assessments (RCAs), KRI design, incident write-ups, scenario analysis, and remediation planning. Coach first-line practitioners to execute risk activities independently.

Lead the regional control program - implement enterprise control standards and control-assessment methodologies consistently across the assigned regions, accounting for local regulatory overlays without altering the underlying enterprise standard. Oversee first-line business unit regional control monitoring, control testing, and control-effectiveness evaluation; track control gaps and remediation in-region; and partner with regional Internal Audit (3rd line) and local compliance teams on integrated control assurance, supporting alignment of regional RCA outputs and control-testing results with the enterprise control framework, assurance program, and reporting.

Coordinate with regional risk leaders on training calendars, risk practitioner communities of practice, and regional roundtables. Champion operational risk culture change in the region and support enterprise change management initiatives at the regional level. Feed regional learning needs back to the ED, Enterprise Ops Risk Enablement Strategy, Framework & Reporting.

Monitor regional regulatory developments and serve as the first point of contact when regional businesses identify significant incidents or emerging risks - briefing the VP, Head of Enterprise Operational Risk Enablement and relevant CoEs on emerging requirements, building relationships with regional regulatory-facing teams so Enablement is engaged early, and triaging and routing issues to the appropriate CoE or Oversight function so enterprise visibility is established promptly.

Ensure regional risk data flows into enterprise reporting processes. Quality‑control regional submissions before integration into enterprise datasets. Contribute regional risk insights, themes, and data to support briefing papers for the Board Risk Committee, Risk Management Steering Committee, and Operational Risk Committee.

Support regional execution of risk exposure quantification methodologies, as appropriate, including scenario analysis and loss modeling, in coordination with the enterprise Risk Quantification CoE.

Represent regional user needs in GRC platform decisions. Partner with the ED, Enterprise Ops Risk Enablement Strategy, Framework & Reporting to drive adoption and effective use of enterprise tooling in the region.

Build and develop a high-performing regional team. Manage analysts and leads in-region, including talent development, succession planning, and performance management.

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in Arts/Sciences (BA/BS) in Risk Management, Finance, Business, Economics, or related field, or equivalent experience required

10+ Years of progressive experience in operational risk management, enterprise risk, internal audit, internal controls, or a related second-line risk functi