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Join Alcoa as a Sr. Manager, Global Operational Risk and play a high‑impact role shaping how a world‑leading metals and mining company anticipates, manages, and transforms risk into strategic advantage. In this role, you will influence decisions at the highest levels, partner with senior leaders across all regions, and drive the adoption of a unified global risk approach. You’ll facilitate enterprise‑level risk assessments, strengthen operational resilience, and embed a proactive, risk‑informed culture across our global operations—including mining, refining, smelting, casting, and functional support areas.
Job Responsibility:
Lead global Operational Risk and ERM activities, including executive and board‑level reporting
Lead complex risk assessments and workshops on high-priority risk topics covering a wide range of areas within the business
Integrate a common risk management framework across all functions and regions
Evolve the global operational risk management strategy, goals and performance targets to ensure annual plans are aligned with company vision
Provide expert guidance to teams as they identify, evaluate, and monitor critical operational risks
Advance a modern global risk training curriculum and promote systemic control improvements
Support assurance activities (audit, insurance, 2LOD/3LOD governance)
Drive alignment across Operations, EHS, ESG, Legal, IT, HR, and other global functions
Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, Mathematics, or related technical field
10+ years in Operational Risk Management, with direct experience leading the development and implementation of a global risk assessment framework, ideally in heavy industry or other high‑hazard environments
Deep understanding of ISO 31000‑based risk management principles
Proven ability to lead risk workshops on complex, cross‑functional topics
Highly capable and comfortable leading and influencing multi‑cultural teams, leveraging strong interpersonal and collaboration skills to build relationships with key stakeholders (including Sr. leaders), challenge the status quo, and drive value‑based compromise
Global mindset, self‑driven, curious, and execution‑focused
Fluency in English
Ability to work across global time zones and travel up to 20%
Nice to have:
additional languages (French, Spanish, Portuguese, Norwegian, Icelandic) are a plus