Associate Director, Enterprise Risk & Strategic Programs

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What You Will Do:

The Associate Director, Enterprise Risk & Strategic Programs will serve as a senior leader within the Integrated Risk & Quality function, under Strategy & Transformation, helping translate enterprise strategy into action and prepare the business for the future by building scalable capabilities, programs, and ways of working across the firm.

A primary focus of the role will be advancing Guidehouse’s Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) capability. Working directly with the Director, the Associate Director will help establish and mature an advanced, forward-looking approach to enterprise risk identification, assessment, monitoring, governance, reporting, and decision-making. A critical component will be strengthening the connection between enterprise-level risk and engagement-level risk management, enabling insights from engagement delivery to inform the enterprise risk view while embedding enterprise risk considerations more effectively into how the firm manages its work.

The Associate Director will also provide strategic leadership for key enterprise capabilities that connect strategy, risk, quality, and delivery, including Engagement Hub and the Guidehouse Delivery Framework (GDF).

More broadly, the role will support the Strategy & Transformation agenda, helping the organization anticipate and prepare for future needs and translating emerging strategic priorities into practical enterprise capabilities. The Associate Director will help take initiatives from strategy and concept through design, implementation, adoption, measurement, and continuous improvement, partnering across corporate functions and business leadership to make change sustainable.

Key Responsibilities

• Advance Enterprise Risk Management: Partner directly with the Director to mature Guidehouse’s ERM capability, including governance, enterprise risk identification and assessment, monitoring, reporting, escalation, risk response, and continuous improvement.
• Connect enterprise and engagement-level risk: Develop stronger mechanisms for identifying themes and emerging risks from engagements and using those insights to strengthen enterprise risk management, while translating enterprise risk priorities into practical engagement-level processes.
• Prepare the organization for emerging risk: Bring a forward-looking perspective to ERM by assessing trends, evolving business conditions, and emerging risks and translating those insights into actionable recommendations for leadership.
• Turn strategy into execution: Translate enterprise priorities into actionable roadmaps, governance models, operating processes, technology-enabled capabilities, metrics, and sustainable ways of working.
• Lead Engagement Hub strategy and governance: Provide business leadership for Engagement Hub, including governance, priorities, stakeholder alignment, adoption, risk and compliance trends, issue escalation, enhancements, and continued evolution.
• Advance the Guidehouse Delivery Framework: Provide strategic leadership and governance for GDF, supporting firmwide adoption, integration with engagement management, enablement, lessons learned, and continuous improvement.
• Lead strategic and transformation initiatives: Take ownership of emerging programs identified by the broader Strategy & Transformation function and help move them from concept through implementation and institutionalization.
• Establish scalable operating models: Define governance, decision rights, roles and responsibilities, performance measures, controls, and operating processes for new and evolving enterprise capabilities.
• Drive cross-functional execution: Partner with business leadership, corporate functions, technology teams, and process owners to align priorities, manage dependencies, resolve issues, and achieve enterprise outcomes.
• Provide executive-level insight: Translate complex quantitative and qualitative information into concise insights, recommendations, and decision materials for senior leadership.
• Drive adoption and organizational change: Help ensure new capabilities become embedded ways of working through stakeholder engagement, communications, enablement, measurement, and reinforcement.
• Drive continuous improvement: Use data, risk trends, stakeholder feedback, and lessons learned to measure effectiveness and continually improve enterprise capabilities.

What You Will Need:

• Bachelor’s Degree; Four (4) years additional professional experience may be substituted in lieu of degree.
• Ten (10) + years of professional experience in a related role.

• Significant experience in Enterprise Risk Management, corporate strategy, transformation, or enterprise program leadership, ideally within a large, complex organization.
• Demonstrated experience supporting or leading an enterprise ERM program, including risk identification, assessment, prioritization, monitoring, reporting, and/or risk response.
• Experience translating enterprise strategy and complex risk information into actionable recommendations for business and senior leadership.
• Demonstrated ability to take strategic concepts and convert them into operating models, frameworks, programs, processes, or technology-enabled capabilities.
• Strong experience working across functions and geographies to drive alignment, decisions, and execution in an environment where direct authority may be limited.
• Experience developing and communicating executive-level risk insights, including synthesizing qualitative and quantitative information for senior leadership.
• Demonstrated experience driving organizational change and adoption of new enterprise processes, frameworks, tools, or capabilities.
• Strong analytical judgment and ability to operate effectively amid ambiguity, evolving priorities, and complex enterprise issues.
• Ability to balance strategic thinking with execution, remaining focused on enterprise outcomes while moving programs from concept through implementation and continuous improvement.

What Would Be Nice To Have:

• Experience helping mature an ERM capability toward a more integrated, data-driven, forward-looking model.
• Experience with GRC platforms, analytics, AI-enabled capabilities, or other technology supporting risk and enterprise decision-making.
• Experience developing risk prioritization frameworks, KRIs, analytics, dashboards, or other decision-support mechanisms.
• Experience with emerging-risk identification, scenario analysis, macro risk analysis, or predictive risk insights.
• Experience owning the strategy or roadmap for an internal enterprise product, platform, or capability.
• Experience establishing closed-loop mechanisms that connect risk identification, action, measurement, feedback, and continuous improvement.
• Experience creating standardized approaches across otherwise distinct functions to improve consistency, transparency, and enterprise decision-making.
• Familiarity with professional services, engagement management, delivery excellence, quality, or engagement-level risk concepts.
• Experience with analytical and visualization tools such as Power BI, Tableau, or SQL.

What We Offer:

Guidehouse offers a comprehensive, total rewards package that includes competitive compensation and a flexible benefits package that reflects our commitment to creating a diverse and supportive workplace.

Benefits include:

• Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance

• Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays

• Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus

• Parental Leave and Adoption Assistance

• 401(k) Retirement Plan

• Basic Life & Supplemental Life

• Health Savings Account, Dental/Vision & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts

• Short-Term & Long-Term Disability

• Student Loan PayDown

• Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development & Learning Opportunities

• Skills Development & Certifications

• Employee Referral Program

• Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach

• Emergency Back-Up Childcare Program

• Mobility Stipend

About Guidehouse

Guidehouse is an Equal Opportunity Employer-Protected Veterans, Individuals with Disabilities or any other basis protected by law, ordinance, or regulation.

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