Manager, Enterprise Risk - Remote

At Kinaxis, who we are is grounded in our common belief that people matter. Each one of us plays an important part in accomplishing our work, building our culture and making a global impact.
Every day, we’re empowered to work together to help our customers make fast, confident planning decisions. This is how we create a better planet – for each other, for our customers and for generations to come. Our cloud-based platform RapidResponse ensures that the products we need – everything from medicine and cars, to day-to-day items like toothpaste – make it to market and into our hands when we need them with minimal ecological footprint.
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Manager, Enterprise Risk
Job location: This position is to be hired in Canada and will be remote unless you live in the Ottawa area in which the role will be hybrid with a minimum of working in the office 3 days a week.
About The Team
Reporting to the Director, Risk & Sustainability, the Manager, Enterprise Risk will be responsible for spearheading the enterprise risk management (ERM) program at Kinaxis, including facilitating key activities throughout the risk management cycle across various business units, including identification, prioritization, assessment, treatment and monitoring/reporting. This role will collaborate stakeholders across the company to drive ERM, including third party and ESG-related risks, and lead several high-impact initiatives to deliver on ERM priorities.
What you will do

• Design and facilitate focus groups, workshops, and conference calls to support strategic planning, goal setting, risk identification, measurement and tracking.
• Monitoring emerging standards and norms, including regulatory developments, industry trends, and best practices to apply insights that support internal processes and strategic direction
• Support the development of the risk-related policies, guidelines and best practices as well as GRC information systems.
• Set, facilitate, and oversee organization-wide risk efforts and initiatives across various internal / external stakeholder groups
• Maintain a strong risk culture throughout the organization by supporting transparency and knowledge-sharing of risk-related information
• Collaborate with business units to develop initiatives and prepare deliverables, including establishing performance targets, performing risk assessments and overseeing implementation of risk mitigation efforts
• Responsible for design, consolidation of annual and quarterly risk reporting (regulated and non-regulated)
• Create systems, formalize processes, and establish metrics for key initiatives to increase transparency, accountability, and track performance.

What we are looking for

• Highly influential; a strong communicator with the ability to present information in an impactful way to a diverse audience
• Must have experience working in a global, multi-functional context - ability to balance global and local requirements
• Knowledge of environmental and social risks and their impact
• Embodies a “company first” mentality, and acts as an ambassador to Kinaxis culture and values
• Comfort with ambiguity and ability to use sound judgement to drive complex issues to resolution and influence to achieve result
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, or related field
• Ability to work in an agile, dynamic, rapid-changing environment by prioritizing situations which require sense of urgency
• Familiarity with ESG risk management and reporting regulations, standards and guidelines
• Ability to make decisions on day-to-day activities and escalate timely
• Collaborative approach and ability to partner cross-functionally
• 5+ years of experience in progressively senior corporate risk management roles or Big 4 firms

What we have to offer

• Diversity, Equity and Inclusion - Diversity, equity and inclusion are more than words to us. They are the guiding principles for building a culture where we celebrate each others’ differences, continuously strive for equality and recognize that inclusion makes us stronger as individuals, a company and a global citizen.
• Global Impact - As a global team spanning continents, boundaries, and cultures, every day we are inspired by the impact our work has on our colleagues, our customers, our communities, and the world at large.
• Challenging Work - We love solving highly complex problems. And as the global leaders in our industry, we never stop innovating—our work is never “done. That’s because across our teams and in all roles, every employee is empowered to bring their best ideas forward and to jump in and solve the problems they’re passionate about.
• Great People - We take our work seriously, but we don’t take ourselves too seriously! It’s in our DNA to celebrate, laugh, and have fun. We are stronger, together, when we are open, honest, and above all, real. Every person is valued here and plays an important role in our shared success.

For more information, visit the Kinaxis web site at www.kinaxis.com or the company’s blog at http://blog.kinaxis.com/ .
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