Job Description
Job Summary
The Director, Enterprise Risk Management, is responsible for driving and enhancing the WBA Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) program.
Reporting to the Senior Director, Retail Products and Corporate Functions Compliance, the ERM Director is responsible for applying the WBA ERM framework to identify key risks and enhance mitigation across WBA and support the US Businesses and functions in completing robust risk registers.
The role will assist in evolution of the ERM tools, practices, and policies to analyze and report enterprise risks, and to manage risks within the ERM framework.
The ERM Director is responsible for ensuring the WBA Mission Critical risks are appropriately documented and updated. The ERM Director will participate in the relevant GRC committees and other operations meetings, ensuring that relevant risks are appropriately considered and escalated through WBA ERM program.
Job Responsibilities
- Working with the business senior management, subject matter experts and various other personnel, to identify risks impacting Walgreens and other Businesses and functions.
- Facilitates the semi-annual preparation of the Walgreens and WBA risk registers and support the review and approval by the appropriate Executives / Senior Management.
- Ensures the general quality of the risk registers prepared by the supporting businesses and functions and approved by Business leadership and incorporating risks into the WBA Risk Register.
- Maintains mitigation plan for all WBA and Walgreens top risks including providing risk insights for management.
- Engages all risk functions across the Division, including Internal Audit, Compliance, Technology Risk & Compliance, Business Continuity and Corporate Strategy, keeping them apprised of the ERM process, points of coordination, the identified risks and management’s action plans to ensure a coordinated effort to the mitigation of enterprise risks.
- Coordinates efforts and drives integration of risks and their management action plans into the divisional strategic initiatives, working closely with the Financial Planning and Analysis.
- Documents and monitors the WBA mission critical risks for presentation to the Executive Committee and WBA Board of Directors
- Participates in key organizational committees as part of the integration of the risk management processes into the organization to ensure compliance, Business commitment, and representation and visibility across the organization for risk management.
- Represents the organization externally for risk management practices, participates in conferences representing Walgreens, and ensures state of the art risk management practices.
- Develops benchmarks and analyzes company position against benchmarks and best practices, providing recommendations for updates and alterations to the policies, practices and processes as necessary.
- As required, support other geographies in the execution of the WBA ERM program across the Company.
About Walgreens and WBA
Walgreens () is included in the , Inc. (Nasdaq : WBA), an integrated healthcare, pharmacy and retail leader with a 170-year heritage of caring for communities.
WBA’s purpose is to create more joyful lives through better health. Operating nearly 9,000 retail locations across America, Puerto Rico and the , Walgreens is proud to be a neighborhood health destination serving nearly 10 million customers each day.
Walgreens pharmacists play a critical role in the , including those that drive equitable access to care for the nation’s medically underserved populations.
To best meet the needs of customers and patients, Walgreens offers a true omnichannel experience, with fully integrated physical and digital platforms supported by the latest technology to deliver high-quality products and services in communities nationwide.
The actual salary an employee can expect to receive, plus bonus pursuant to the terms of any bonus plan if applicable, will depend on experience, seniority, geographic location, and other factors permitted by law.
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