Position Title: Risk and Contracts Manager
Position Location: Remote - work virtually from anywhere in the United States
SALARY
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JOB SUMMARY
The Risk and Contracts Manager serves as the firm’s senior leader responsible for enterprise risk assessment, governance, and mitigation strategy. This role establishes and strengthens the firm’s Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) framework and leads the proactive identification, evaluation, and management of risks that may impact safety performance, operational execution, regulatory compliance, contractual exposure, financial stability and corporate reputation.
The Risk and Contracts Manager provides forward-looking analysis to assess how current practices, growth initiatives, regulatory changes and market conditions may influence future risk exposure. This role ensures risk governance is integrated across project delivery, safety performance, compliance oversight and business strategy, recognizing that operational, contractual, financial and safety risks are interconnected.
This position provides direct oversight of the Contracts and Insurance team. The Risk and Contracts Manager establishes risk review standards, exposure thresholds and escalation protocols to ensure contractual and insurance processes align with enterprise risk tolerance and organizational objectives.
Working as part of the Operations Team, the Risk and Contracts Manager partners closely with Safety leadership and collaborates cross-functionally with Human Resources, Accounting, IT, Contract Administration and Executive Leadership. The role serves as a strategic advisor to executive leadership, providing structured risk reporting, compliance assurance oversight and data-informed recommendations to support sound decision-making. The role reports to the Chief Administrative Officer.
This position requires executive presence, strong business acumen and the ability to influence across disciplines in a fully virtual environment.
The Risk and Contracts Manager is self-directed on day-to-day work and independently performs most responsibilities. Will lead teams and projects or tasks of complex scope and broader programs. Will coordinate activities of other personnel. Assists in the development of policies and procedures.
The Risk and Contracts Manager will communicate and operate in line with organizational goals and values, as well as departmental objectives.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
Enterprise Risk Assessment and Strategy (35%)
Operational & Safety Risk Integration (20%)