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Associate Director Risk, Policy & ControlsJob ID: REQ-10013289Date: Jul 18, 2024Location: IrelandSummaryWe’re a team of dedicated and smart people united by a drive to achieve together. You will play an important role in leveraging synergies between risks, processes, policies, and controls to enhance enterprise governance and support the integrated assurance journey. You will assist Risk Area owners with an integrated approach to risk, policy, and controls processes, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and addressing top risks to facilitate strategic decision-making and optimize the overall governance process.About the RoleThis role will be based in Dublin 4 within our Hybrid working model of 12 days a month in the office.Key Responsibilities:Act as subject matter expert on the end-to-end Enterprise Risk, Policy & Controls process and framework.Support process enhancements and simplifications to further link and integrate risk management and policy and controls processes.Work closely with the Innovation, Technology, and Data Science team to support strong data governance and data analytics for informed decision-making by leveraging tools to support and automate.Collaborate with global functions to help improve their governance by establishing/maintaining relevant Policies and designing/maintaining value-added controls and implementing (ONCE) processes and tools.Ensure comprehensive risk coverage by ensuring all enterprise risk areas are governed by relevant Enterprise Policies with adequate internal controls that are maintained and kept up to date.Facilitate the annual enterprise risk management (ERM) cycle for key countries and critical global functions, including executing risk workshops and following up on key risk mitigation actions.Analyze and report on risk trends, maintain the ERM dashboard, and contribute to Novartis’ annual risk workshop with the risk leadership team (RLT) and other subject matter experts to develop action plans for Novartis top risks.Contribute to ad hoc projects as needed.What you’ll bring to the role:Good experience in risk management or strategy, demonstrating an understanding of integrating risk considerations into business processes with an understanding of document creation and management processes.Strong communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex concepts clearly across various audiences/environments, showing adaptability and resilience in the face of challenges.Proven ability to collaborate with diverse and cross-functional stakeholders at all levels of the organization.Strong analytical skills capable of breaking down complex issues to inform decision-making.Ability to lead through influence to drive initiatives and achieve results.Good experience in internal controls management (One Novartis Controls Environment - ONCE).Why Novartis? Our purpose is to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives and our vision is to become the most valued and trusted medicines company in the world. It is our associates that drive us each day to reach our ambitions. Be a part of this mission and join us!Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion: The Novartis Group of Companies are Equal Opportunity Employers and take pride in maintaining a diverse environment. We are committed to building diverse teams, representative of the patients and communities we serve, and strive to create an inclusive workplace that cultivates bold innovation through collaboration and empowers our people to unleash their full potential.Division: Ethics Risk & ComplianceBusiness Unit: CorporateLocation: IrelandSite: Dublin (Novartis Corporate Center (NOCC))Company / Legal Entity: IE02 (FCRS = IE002) Novartis Ireland Ltd #J-18808-Ljbffr