Director - Enterprise Risk Management

Location: Cambridge, Macclesfield, Luton UK

Competitive salary and benefits apply

AstraZeneca is a global, science-led, patient-focused biopharmaceutical company that focuses on the discovery, development, and commercialisation of prescription medicines for some of the world’s most serious disease. But we’re more than one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies.

As a hard-working team, we are united and motivated by our shared purpose – to push the boundaries of science to deliver life-changing medicines. We come to work each day to make a difference – to patients, society, and our company.

Job Purpose and Impact on the Business

The responsibility for the identification and management of risk rests with each SET area and business area. These responsibilities are discharged through a ‘business area risk lead’ who leads the risk management activities within their business area.

The central Enterprise Risk Management team sits in the Financial Controls & Compliance Group within Group Finance. This team owns the Standard for Enterprise Risk Management, ensuring that this meets all relevant Corporate Governance requirements; provides tools, templates and guidance where required for SET areas and business areas to guide their approach to Enterprise Risk Management; co-ordinates the aggregation of risk information from all SET and Business areas and reports this to SET, Audit Committee and Board through the quarterly risk report and to external stakeholders through the Annual Report and 20-F disclosures; and provides assurance that enterprise risks are being appropriately managed and Corporate Governance requirements are being met.

The purpose of this role is to act as the Director of Enterprise Risk Management, in support of the Director Enterprise Risk and Business Resilience to achieve the objectives outlined above. The role holder will be expected to work collaboratively across all SET areas and business areas building relationships and developing a knowledge of the key risks facing each business area. The role holder will also demonstrate and develop a high level of Subject Matter Expert knowledge and experience to proactively network, support and guide key internal stakeholders, including business area risk leads.

The role holder will also develop and maintain an active and on-going general understanding of Business Continuity and Crisis Management activities through collaborative working with the Group Director Business Continuity and Crisis Management and the Director of Business Continuity and Crisis Management. This is crucial to enable a multi-disciplinary approach to be taken to Enterprise Risk and resilience activity and to provide service continuity during periods of absence/holiday.

Accountabilities

Maintain Global Process resources for Enterprise Risk Management

• Support the Director Enterprise Risk and Business Resilience to review and amend as appropriate Global Standards and supporting policy documents for Enterprise Risk Management.

• Support the Director Enterprise Risk and Business Resilience in the development of a strategic roadmap for Enterprise Risk Management.

• Ensure that all necessary resources and templates to support Enterprise Risk Management are in place and up to date.

• Work in collaboration with One GRC systems specialist to ensure that the Enterprise wide risk collection system, One GRC, is optimised to meet the needs of internal stakeholders

Promotion of Enterprise Risk Management

• Publish and maintain oversight of the content on the Enterprise Risk Nucleus page.

• Ensure that the Standard for Enterprise Risk Management is available to users on the ECMS system and Finance Library

• Establish an Enterprise Risk Workplace Group and maintain a regular flow of content to promote engagement, discussion and debate across AstraZeneca.

• Develop and maintain relationships with business area risk leads and other members of the Risk Network.

• Maintain an active external benchmarking perspective on Enterprise Risk Management to help shape our strategic priorities.

Reporting

• Working with Director Enterprise Risk and Business Resilience ensure that quarterly reports and SET, Audit Committee and Board papers are issued to schedule

• Continue to evolve structure and format of reports to meet needs of stakeholders and align with external good practice

Training and Exercising

• Development of an AstraZeneca Enterprise Risk ‘curriculum’ for training and awareness

Meeting Support

• Schedule, support and attend quarterly Enterprise Risk Network Meetings and co-ordinate and lead the annual Enterprise Risk Conference, in support of the Director Enterprise Risk and Business Resilience.

Cross-Functional Working

• Develop and maintain a general working knowledge of Enterprise Risk through collaboration with the Head of Enterprise Risk and Business Resilience and the Director of Enterprise Risk.

• Develop and maintain collaborative links with key internal resilience stakeholders outside Enterprise Risk and Business Resilience (e.g. Global Security; Global Procurement; SHE).

Monitoring, Testing and Assurance

• Support the design and on-going development of second-line assurance monitoring of Enterprise Risk Management process and mitigation activity across the enterprise.

• Support the design and delivery of Operational Resilience alignment, in accordance with any future regulatory requirements. This is to include the implementation of reverse stress-testing/scenario modelling for designated enterprise risks.

Other

• Support / deputise for the Director Enterprise Risk and Business Resilience as required.

• Support / collaborate with Director Business Continuity and Crisis Management as required to build alignment between Enterprise Risk and Business Continuity / Crisis Management activities.

Education, Qualifications, Skills and Experience

Essential:

Qualifications

• Degree level or equivalent

Experience

• Working in or with a global/international business (ideally FTSE 100) or public sector equivalent > 7 years.

• Direct practical experience of Risk Management in a large, complex organisation (ideally a multinational business).

• Used to working across functional and geographical boundaries.

• Comfortable working with political complexity.

Skills

• Highly self-motivated.

• Ability to successfully build relationships and influence across international boundaries outside direct reporting lines

• Able to work with agility across a matrix structure.

• Excellent communication and presentational skills.

• Excellent networker.

• Innovator.

• Challenges complexity and drives simplicity.

Desirable

• Knowledge of Enterprise Risk processes

• Experience of training individuals with different levels of exposure to risk management activity

• Experience of implementing an internal communication initiative through social media.

• Experience of designing and implementing digital learning solutions

• Designing and implementing KRIs.

• Experience of conducting second line of defence assurance activity.

• An established network of Enterprise Risk Management contacts

Why AstraZeneca?

At AstraZeneca, we 're dedicated to being a Great Place to Work. Where you are empowered to push the boundaries of science and fuel your entrepreneurial spirit. There’s no better place to make a difference to medicine, patients and society. An inclusive culture that champions diversity and collaboration, and always committed to lifelong learning, growth and development. We’re on an exciting journey to pioneer the future of healthcare.

So, what’s next?

Are you already imagining yourself joining our team? Good, because we can’t wait to hear from you! Are you ready to bring new insights and fresh thinking to the table? Brilliant! We have one seat available, and we hope it’s yours

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AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics. We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.