Project Manager, Risk Americas

The Risk Committee PMO role serves as the operational backbone for the Americas Risk Committee (ARC) and its related risk oversight functions, including Enterprise Risk Management (ERM), Internal Audit, and Legal & Regulatory Compliance. The PMO is responsible for is responsible for building and running the project infrastructure that keeps risk and compliance initiatives moving. This includes designing, coordinating, and operationalizing the governance infrastructure supporting the ARC.
This role serves as the central integrator of risk information, governance processes, and executive reporting, ensuring the ARC operates as a highly effective, decision-oriented executive forum. Japanese language skills and familiarity with Daikin culture are strongly des

Position Responsibilities:

Project Management

• Plan, coordinate, and manage all ARC meetings (quarterly and ad hoc)
• Develop decision-focused agendas aligned to ARC priorities with input from ARC facilitators (i.e., Jaime and Manish)
• Prepare and distribute integrated pre-read materials
• Facilitate meeting logistics and ensure clear documentation of outcomes
• Maintain action logs, decision registers, and follow-up tracking

Action Tracking & Accountability

• Track remediation actions, owners, and timelines
• Monitor progress against risk mitigation plans and KPIs/KRIs
• Escalate delays, gaps, or issues to ARC leadership
• Ensure closure and validation of risk actions

Integrated Risk Reporting & Insights

• Consolidate inputs from ERM, Internal Audit, and Legal & Compliance
• Develop a single, integrated ARC reporting package

• Ensure consistency in risk taxonomy, scoring, and messaging
• Highlight cross-discipline risk convergence
• Produce executive-level dashboards, heat maps, and trend analysis

Stakeholder Engagement & Enablement

• Serve as the primary liaison across ERM, Internal Audit, Legal & Compliance
• Partner with functional leaders to improve risk reporting quality
• Support onboarding of new ARC members and participants
• Provide guidance on ARC expectations, roles, and governance processes

Key Deliverables

• ARC agendas and meeting materials
• Integrated quarterly ARC reporting package
• Enterprise risk dashboards and heat maps
• Action and decision tracking logs
• Audit Committee risk reporting inputs
• ARC governance documentation and updates
• Perform additional activities/projects to support ongoing business needs

Nature & Scope:

• Anticipates internal and/or external business challenges and/or regulatory issues; recommends process, product or service improvements
• Solves unique and complex problems that have a broad impact on the business
• Contributes to the development of functional strategy
• Leads teams or projects with broad visibility to achieve milestones and objectives

Knowledge & Skills

• Strong project-management and organization skills
• Experience with executive-level reporting and communication
• Ability to synthesize complex information into clear insights
• Enterprise mindset and cross-functional collaboration
• Strong facilitation and stakeholder influence skills
• High attention to detail with strategic perspective
• Ability to operate effectively in ambiguity and transformation
• Strong strategic thinking capabilities with the ability to naturally translate strategy into plans for execution
• An open, inclusive, team-oriented work style and the ability to collaborate and build strong relationships with employees and leaders at all levels of the organization
• A commitment to the pursuit of excellence, demonstrates a willingness to speak honestly, listen openly, and lead purposefully
• Solid understanding of business concepts, strategic alignment and identification of talent implications
• Excellent strategic planning and operational deployment skills with the ability to integrate and align strategy, people, and activities across functions, processes, and teams
• Ability to grasp issues quickly and form, initiate and carry through design to implementation and measurement
• Ability to thrive and pivot in a fast-paced work environment while navigating change
• Intuitive, strategic and conceptual thinker with an orientation to detail and results

Experience:

• 12+ years of experience in corporate function project management. Knowledge and experience with Internal Audit, Compliance, or Risk Management a plus
• Experience supporting executive governance committees preferred
• Familiarity with COSO ERM, IIA Standards, or similar frameworks
• Strong PowerPoint and executive presentation development skills

Education/Certification:

• Bachelor’s Degree required
• PMP certification preferred

People Management: No

Physical Requirements / Work Environment: Must be able to perform essential responsibilities with or without reasonable accommodations. Must be able to travel on business or work beyond normal work hours as necessary

Reports To: Manager, Project

The Company provides equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants regardless of a person’s race, color, religion (including religious dress or grooming practices), creed, national origin (including language use restrictions), citizenship, uniform service member or veteran status, ancestry, disability, physical or mental disability (including HIV/AIDS), medical condition (including cancer and genetic characteristics), genetic information, request for protected leave, marital status, sex, pregnancy, age (over 40), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, political affiliation, or any other characteristic protected by law. The Company will comply with all federal and state regulations and statutes pertaining to individuals with disabilities.