On - Head of Risk
Requirements
• Expertise in integrated frameworks, with a proven ability to lead ERM programmes that incorporate BCM and ESG/Materiality components. • Expertise in integrated frameworks • Hands-on. You thrive in the detail, embed yourself with teams, and drive initiatives through to completion. • Hands-on • Naturally collaborative, empathetic. You build trust by understanding the pressures others face and adapting your style to the audience. • Naturally collaborative, empathetic. • Strong working knowledge of ERM standards (COSO ERM, ISO 31000), BCM standards (ISO 22301) and familiarity with sustainability reporting standards (e.g., CSRD/ESRS). • Strong working knowledge • Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders, translating technical risk and materiality data into clear, business-relevant language. • Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders • Experience in a publicly listed company environment is a strong advantage, particularly with SOX/ICFR programmes and Foreign Private Issuer requirements. • Experience in a publicly listed company environment • Relevant certifications valued but not required (e.g., CBCI, MBCI, ISO 22301 Lead Implementer, CRISC, or equivalent). • Relevant certifications valued but not required • An entrepreneurial mindset. You thrive in environments where you’re building something, not just maintaining it. • An entrepreneurial mindset. • Fluency in English • Fluency in English • Meet the Team • Meet the Team • You’ll be joining the Group Risk & Internal Controls (GRIC) function, which sits at the heart of On’s second line of defence. We work closely with external auditors, senior leadership, and teams across every function and geography. • We’re a lean, high-impact team that values rigour, intellectual curiosity, and a bias for action. We don’t hide behind frameworks – we build them, challenge them, and make them work in practice. If you want a seat at the table where risk meets strategy, this is it.
Responsibilities
• Enterprise Risk Management • Own and continuously improve the enterprise risk management framework, as the primary governance structure, ensuring alignment with On’s strategy, regulatory obligations, and industry best practices. • Own and continuously improve the enterprise risk management framework • Facilitate the integrated risk cycle, including the identification, assessment, facilitate risk response and reporting cycle, including acting as the central hub where BCM operational risks and DMA materiality findings are synthesized into the Group risk register. • Facilitate the integrated risk cycle • Prepare unified risk reporting for senior leadership, translating risk data from all three frameworks into actionable recommendations for the Board and Executive Team. • Prepare unified risk reporting • Monitor the external risk landscape – including regulatory shifts, geopolitical developments, and emerging threats to proactively advise the business. • Monitor the external risk landscape • Partner with Internal Controls and Internal Audit to ensure risk identified via ERM, BCM, and DMA inform control design and assessment priorities.Drive a proactive risk culture across the organization, making risk management a strategic tool for growth rather than a compliance exercise. • Partner with Internal Controls and Internal Audit • Drive a proactive risk culture • Business Continuity Management • Own the BCM framework, crisis management and business continuity plans (BCPs), driving their expansion across all critical functions, entities, and geographies. • Own the BCM framework, crisis management and business continuity plans (BCPs) • Design and implement BCPs for critical business processes, working directly with process owners to scale operational resilience globally. • Design and implement BCPs • Lead a structured assessment programme of tabletop exercises and simulation drills, feeding lessons learned back into plan improvements and into the ERM framework to refine risk appetite. • Lead a structured assessment programme • Coordinate with Tech on disaster recovery (DR) alignment, ensuring business continuity and tech resilience are assessed as a unified front. • Coordinate with Tech on disaster recovery (DR) alignment • Double Materiality Assessment (DMA) • Support the DMA process to identify and assess On’s environmental and social impacts, as well as the financial risks and opportunities they present. • Support the DMA process • Ensure DMA outcomes are integrated into the ERM cycle, bridging the gap between sustainability impact and financial risk management. • Ensure DMA outcomes are integrated into the ERM cycle • Collaborate with the relevant stakeholders (e.g. Non-Financial Reporting teams, Sustainability, Legal, etc.) to ensure materiality assessments meet evolving regulatory standards while remaining grounded in business reality. • Collaborate with the relevant stakeholders (e.g. Non-Financial Reporting teams, Sustainability, Legal, etc.) • Cross-Cutting • Cross-Cutting • Act as a subject matter expert to senior business leaders on operational resilience, ESG-related risks, and risk-informed decision-making. • Act as a subject matter expert • Collaborate across functions, including Legal, Compliance, Tech Security, Operations and Sustainability, to embed risk considerations into enterprise-wide initiatives. • Collaborate across functions • Your Story • Your Story • 12+ years of experience in risk management, business continuity, or operational resilience, or a closely related discipline, with at least 5 years in senior leadership roles, ideally within a fast-growing, international environment.
Benefits
• On is a place that is centered around growth and progress. We offer an environment designed to give people the tools to develop holistically – to stay active, to learn, explore and innovate. Our distinctive approach combines a supportive, team-oriented atmosphere, with access to personal self-care for both physical and mental well-being, so each person is led by purpose.
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