Risk Director - Regulatory Services Compliance

REMOTE ROLE CAN BE LOCATED IN US or CANADA

At UL, we know why we come to work.

Thousands of us around the world wake up every day with a common purpose: to make the world a safer, more secure and sustainable place. Science is in our DNA; we are endlessly curious and passionate about seeking and speaking the truth. We take delight in knowing that our work makes a meaningful contribution to society, and we are proud that our culture is centered on integrity, collaboration, inclusion and excellence. UL stands at the forefront of technological advancement, and we are continually challenged to find new ways to foster innovation and positive change. Satisfying? Yes. Exciting? Absolutely!

What you’ll learn & achieve:

The Regulatory Services Compliance Risk Director is responsible for developing, implementing, and maintaining UL Solutions’ service compliance risk governance framework including policies, controls, metrics, and procedures that integrates with UL Solutions’ service governance framework and UL Solutions overall risk management framework. This role provides service compliance risk guidance and internal consultation to senior, operational, and business leaders to ensure ongoing protection of and trust in the UL Solutions Brand. The Director acts as a trusted service compliance risk advisor and provides guidance on matters of significant service compliance risk impact to the company. This role also enables growth in new and sustaining services, collaborating with company-wide functions, minimizing UL Solutions’ service compliance risk.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES: - Responsible for developing, implementing, and maintaining UL Solutions’ service compliance risk governance framework. - Develops, refines, and implements risk management strategies, policies, processes, technical and organizational controls to ensure compliance with UL Solutions service compliance risk governance framework. - Advises business partners and provides direction, guidance, oversight, and training to leadership teams regarding identification, analysis, and mitigation of service compliance risks. Drive awareness and adoption of risk management best practices. - Builds strong relationship with executive, senior, operational, and business leaders. Proactively partner with business leaders to help identify UL Solutions’ service compliance risks and develop risk mitigation plans to minimize service compliance risk while enabling UL Solutions’ strategic business goals and objectives. - Develop and deliver risk reports and dashboards to executive and senior management. - Engages with stakeholders in the conformity assessment and accreditation community (e.g., regulators, scheme owners, accreditors) to advance UL Solutions’ understanding of service compliance risk tenets. - Advises Function leader on matters related to service compliance risk and mitigation. - Provides thought leadership on ad-hoc projects as required by Function leader. - Researches, analyzes, and advises on risks to conformity assessment services related to current and emerging technologies. - Stay current with industry trends and best practices in risk management and apply them to UL Solutions service compliance risk management program.

Qualifications: - Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business Administration, or related field. Master’s degree preferred. - Strong knowledge of risk management principles, techniques, and frameworks, including ISO 31000. - 8 - 10 years or more related experience or demonstrated competency. Professional certification such as CRMP, CRM are preferred. - In-depth and/or breadth of expertise in regulations and applied conformity assessment. - Proficient in understanding of relevant international conformity assessment standards and their applications. - Expertise in the understanding of technical vocabulary common to conformity assessment. - Ability to clearly communicate unique and/or complex concepts and influence others to adopt a different point of view. - Demonstrated ability to work effectively with business leaders to develop and implement risk management strategies and processes. - Demonstrated ability to organize and facilitate internal and external meetings, negotiate and produce the desired outcomes. - Demonstrated ability to function effectively in a matrix organization. - Strong communications, interpersonal and networking skills. - Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and presentation skills. - Ability to think strategically and anticipate future risks and opportunities. - Open mindedness and ability to quickly grasp new concepts and ideas. - Lead internal and external teams to solve unique and/or complex problems. - Utilize sophisticated analytical thought process to exercise judgement and identify innovative solutions. - Persuasiveness to influence the acceptance and implementation of the developed conclusions and recommendations. - Willing and able to travel to meet position responsibilities.

• Mission: For UL Solutions, corporate and social responsibility isn’t new. Making the world a safer, more secure and sustainable place has been our business model for the last 129 years and is deeply engrained in everything we do.
• People: Ask any UL Solutions employee what they love most about working here, and you’ll almost always hear, “the people.” Going beyond what is possible is the standard at UL Solutions. We’re able to deliver the best because we employ the best.
• Interesting work: Every day is different for us here as we eagerly anticipate the next innovation that our customers create. We’re inspired to take on the challenge that will transform how people live, work and play. And as a global company, in many roles, you will get international experience working with colleagues around the world.
• Grow & Achieve: We learn, work and grow together with targeted development, reward and recognition programs as well as our very own UL University that offers extensive training programs for employees at all stages, including a technical training track for applicable roles.
• Total Rewards: Total Rewards: All employees at UL Solutions are eligible for bonus compensation. UL solutions offers a generous 401k matching structure of up to 5% of eligible pay. Additionally, we invest an additional 4% into your retirement saving fund after your first year of continuous employment. We provide Healthcare Reimbursement Accounts and Health Savings Accounts that UL Solutions contributes to twice per year! Depending on your role, you can work with your manager on flexible working arrangements. We also provide employees with paid time off including vacation, holiday, sick and volunteer time off.