Associate Director, Corporate Programs, Risk

Enterprise Risk Management AD

As the Enterprise Risk Management AD, you will play a pivotal role in driving the company's risk management strategy and ensuring our organization is equipped to navigate a dynamic and highly regulated biotech environment. Reporting to the Head of Enterprise Risk Management, you will foster a risk-aware culture and collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify, assess, mitigate, and monitor risks across financial, operational, strategic, compliance, and reputational domains. Your contributions will strengthen the company's resilience, safeguard its assets, and support regulatory compliance. By leveraging your expertise, you will develop and refine tools, frameworks, and processes that elevate our enterprise risk management practices. This role also includes responsibilities in maintaining the corporate risk register, business continuity planning, and crisis managementall vital components of ensuring Biogen's long-term success.

What You'll Do :

• Lead cross-functional risk identification efforts across all risk categories, gathering insights from stakeholders at various levels of the organization.
• Facilitate risk assessment workshops, scenario analyses, and working groups to inform decision-making.
• Develop and mature risk communication tools, including risk registers and scoring matrices, to evaluate the impact and likelihood of risks.
• Collaborate with compliance and internal audit teams to ensure alignment of ERM deliverables with broader risk-related audits and assessments.
• Partner with business units to identify risk controls, assess their effectiveness, and recommend innovative mitigation strategies.
• Draft narrative risk reports, dashboards, and presentations for senior management and the board of directors.
• Design and lead business continuity and crisis management simulations to enhance organizational resilience.
• Provide facilitation support during unforeseen enterprise crisis events, ensuring effective response coordination.
• Monitor external landscape trends, industry shifts, and regulatory changes that could impact the company's risk profile.
• Maintain and continuously improve enterprise risk governance principles, policies, and procedures in alignment with industry standards.

Who You Are :

You are a strategic thinker with a strong background in biotechnology or pharmaceuticals and a deep understanding of risk management practices. You thrive in dynamic environments and bring a proactive mindset to identifying risks and crafting innovative solutions. Your collaborative approach allows you to engage effectively with diverse stakeholders, and your analytical skills enable you to interpret complex data and translate it into actionable insights. You are detail-oriented, organized, and adaptable, making you well-prepared to manage competing priorities in a rapidly changing industry.

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Job Level : Management

Additional Information

The base compensation range for this role is : $148,000.00-$204,000.00 Base salary offered is determined through an analytical approach utilizing a combination of factors including, but not limited to, relevant skills & experience, job location, and internal equity. Regular employees are eligible to receive both short term and long-term incentives, including cash bonus and equity incentive opportunities, designed to reward recent achievements and recognize your future potential based on individual, business unit and company performance. In addition to compensation, Biogen offers a full and highly competitive range of benefits designed to support our employees' and their families physical, financial, emotional, and social well-being; including, but not limited to :

Why Biogen?

We are a global team with a commitment to excellence, and a pioneering spirit. As a mid-sized biotechnology company, we provide the stability and resources of a well-established business while fostering an environment where individual contributions make a significant impact. Our team encompasses some of the most talented and passionate achievers who have unparalleled opportunities for learning, growth, and expanding their skills. Above all, we work together to deliver life-changing medicines, with every role playing a vital part in our mission. Caring Deeply. Achieving Excellence. Changing Lives.

At Biogen, we are committed to building on our culture of inclusion and belonging that reflects the communities where we operate and the patients we serve. We know that diverse backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives make us a stronger and more innovative company, and we are focused on building teams where every employee feels empowered and inspired.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, race, color, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, religion, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law. Biogen is an E-Verify Employer in the United States.