Sr. Manager, Global Operational Risk (Location Flexible)

Shape Your World

At Alcoa, you will become an essential part of our purpose: to turn raw potential into real progress. The way we see it, every Alcoan is a work-shaper, team-shaper, idea-shaper & world-shaper.

At Alcoa, you’re an essential part of our purpose: to turn raw potential into real progress. This is an opportunity for you to bring your wealth of experience to the team and help shape the future of sustainability with world-changing innovations and low-carbon technologies. You have the power to shape things to make them better.

About the role:

Join Alcoa as a Sr. Manager, Global Operational Risk and play a high‑impact role shaping how a world‑leading metals and mining company anticipates, manages, and transforms risk into strategic advantage.

In this role, you will influence decisions at the highest levels, partner with senior leaders across all regions, and drive the adoption of a unified global risk approach. You’ll facilitate enterprise‑level risk assessments, strengthen operational resilience, and embed a proactive, risk‑informed culture across our global operations—including mining, refining, smelting, casting, and functional support areas.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead global Operational Risk and ERM activities, including executive and board‑level reporting.
• Lead complex risk assessments and workshops on high-priority risk topics covering a wide range of areas within the business.
• Integrate a common risk management framework across all functions and regions.
• Evolve the global operational risk management strategy, goals and performance targets to ensure annual plans are aligned with company vision.
• Provide expert guidance to teams as they identify, evaluate, and monitor critical operational risks.
• Advance a modern global risk training curriculum and promote systemic control improvements.
• Support assurance activities (audit, insurance, 2LOD/3LOD governance).
• Drive alignment across Operations, EHS, ESG, Legal, IT, HR, and other global functions.

What you can bring to the role:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, Mathematics, or related technical field.
• 10+ years in Operational Risk Management, with direct experience leading the development and implementation of a global risk assessment framework, ideally in heavy industry or other high‑hazard environments.
• Deep understanding of ISO 31000‑based risk management principles.
• Proven ability to lead risk workshops on complex, cross‑functional topics.
• Highly capable and comfortable leading and influencing multi‑cultural teams, leveraging strong interpersonal and collaboration skills to build relationships with key stakeholders (including Sr. leaders), challenge the status quo, and drive value‑based compromise.
• Global mindset, self‑driven, curious, and execution‑focused.
• Fluency in English; additional languages (French, Spanish, Portuguese, Norwegian, Icelandic) are a plus.
• Ability to work across global time zones and travel up to 20%.

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Base salary: $127,500 - $175,000 USD annually

Total rewards packages listed, including base salary and bonus eligibility, applies to US based applicants only. Actual salaries will vary and will be based on a range of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, and competencies in conjunction with multiple components of the Employee Total Rewards Package. Alcoa reserves the right to change plans at its discretion.

About the Location

Alcoa is an international company with multiple locations and joint ventures across six continents. Wherever you choose to join us, you'll be joining a global team committed to advancing sustainability and delivering excellence and innovation. As industry pioneers, we are redefining what it means to be a sustainable aluminum company, bridging the journey from mines to metal.

We are values led, vision driven and united by our purpose of transforming raw potential into real progress.  Our commitments to Inclusion, Diversity & Equity include providing trusting workplaces that are safe, respectful and inclusive of all individuals, free from discrimination, bullying and harassment and that our workplaces reflect the diversity of the communities in which we operate.

As a proud equal opportunity workplace and affirmative action employer, Alcoa is dedicated to providing equal opportunities and equal access to all individuals regardless of a person’s gender, age, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, nation of origin, disability, veteran status, language spoken or any other characteristic or status protected by the laws or regulations in the places where we operate.