Shape Your World

At Alcoa, you will become an essential part of our purpose: to turn raw potential into real progress. The way we see it, every Alcoan is a work-shaper, team-shaper, idea-shaper, world-shaper.

As a leader within Alcoa, you can help us fulfill our purpose and realize our vision to reinvent the aluminum industry. Be part of the team that is helping shape a better workplace with a better work-life balance and the equal opportunities that help everyone thrive. You have the power to shape things to make them better.

About the Role:

The Regional Risk Manager ensures effective risk management across multiple operations, aligning risk strategies with business performance and safety goals. This role leads a team of risk experts to foster a proactive risk culture, supporting both immediate operational needs and long-term strategic objectives.

• Operational Efficiency: Enhance business performance through risk analysis, change management and continuous improvements.

• Risk Governance and Mitigation: Drive identification, assessment, and mitigation of risks within the ORM (Operational Risk Management) framework.

• Control Oversight: Manage controls performance and compliance with global and regional standards.

• ORM System Leadership: Spearhead the implementation and enhancement of the ORM system across all regional operations, providing actionable insights to risk committees for informed decision-making.

• Risk Assessment Management: Facilitate the execution of comprehensive risk assessments, ensuring that all material risks are accurately identified, evaluated, and mitigated within the ORM framework.

• Capacity Building Development: Lead and train teams of local risk experts, ensuring consistent application of risk practices across all locations. Promote a culture of risk awareness and proactive management.

• Performance Reporting: Regularly analyze and report risk management outcomes to senior leadership, offering insights and recommendations to reduce operational risks and improve strategic decision-making.

• Risk Strategy Integration: Embed risk strategies into operational planning, covering mid- to long term objectives and change management initiatives. Ensure thorough risk documentation.

• Adherence to Global Standards: Partner with regional functions to ensure alignment with Alcoa’s global risk protocols and compliance with regulatory requirements

• Continuous Process Improvement: Drive continuous improvement in ORM processes by integrating incident learnings, audit findings, and benchmarking data to enhance internal controls.

• Regional Risk Register: Maintain a comprehensive risk register for the region, ensuring that key risks are documented, reviewed, and aligned with corporate governance standards.

• Audit and Compliance: Coordinate with audit processes, including ISO certification audits, to ensure ongoing compliance and improvement.

What you can bring to this role:

• Degree in Engineering, Science or Business.

• Master’s degree is desirable.

• Experience in a mining/metals industry is desirable.

• Experience in Operational Risk Management role.

• Analytical powerhouse – Focused improvement strategy and execution results.

• Skilled in organizing resources and managing to priorities.

• Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills coupled with extensive stakeholder engagement.

• Operationally savvy and is experienced at effectively managing multiple issues.

• A strong inclusive leader with presence, able to motivate, energize, coach and inspire the team to exceed objectives and
  innovate.

• Demonstrated ability to navigate, influence and collaborate across functions regionally, externally and globally, and at all levels
  of the organization, with proven success in managing by influence in a matrix organization.

• High ethical standards of conduct, team collaborative efforts.

• Substantial experience in governance and compliance management plan development.

• Fluency in languages: Advanced English in writing and communication

What we offer:

• Competitive remuneration and benefits packages.

• Flexibility First – Remote work agreement.

• Telemedicine and telenutrition;

• Recognition as one of the Best Companies to Work For by Great Place to Work;

• Recognized by Guia Exame de Diversidade as one of the companies with the best practices related to inclusion, equity, gender, ethnicity, race, People with Disabilities and LGBTQIA+ people.

About the Location

At Alcoa, we are committed to generating value in our relationships with all stakeholders in our business, communities and environment. We build inclusive and secure environments so that our people can live and express themselves as they please. With the aim of attracting and retaining diverse talent, the company maintains the inclusion groups that promote internal and external activities to value human diversity and plurality as a way of enriching one's own values.

We are values led, vision driven and united by our purpose of transforming raw potential into real progress.  Our commitments to Inclusion, Diversity & Equity include providing trusting workplaces that are safe, respectful and inclusive of all individuals, free from discrimination, bullying and harassment and that our workplaces reflect the diversity of the communities in which we operate.    

This is a place where you are empowered to do your best work, be your authentic self, and feel a true sense of belonging. Come join us and shape your career!  

Your work. Your world. Shape them for the better.