Risk & Compliance Leader

Scheels Corporate Office
1707 Gold Drive
Fargo, ND 58103, USA

Scheels Company Goals:

We strive to be the best retailer in the USA in the eyes and minds of our customers, associates, and business partners.

Overview:

Cashiers create a welcoming environment by greeting customers, accurately processing transactions, and engaging them to deliver a world-class customer experience. This role provides friendly, helpful service that ensures customers leave with a positive impression of SCHEELS.

What We Commit To – Our Employee Ownership Values

As an employee-owner, you’re expected to actively contribute to a culture that thrives on:

• Delivering a Personalized WOW Customer Experience
• Every customer interaction is an opportunity to exceed expectations
• We focus on making every visit memorable, personalized, and impactful
• Having a Team-First, Winning Mentality
• We succeed together by supporting one another and celebrating team wins
• Collaboration and unity drive our performance and customer experience
• Learning and Adapting to Constant Change
• We embrace growth, innovation, and feedback
• Change is not a barrier-it's a catalyst for improvement and excellence
• Taking Pride in Our Work and Thinking Like Owners
• Every task matters, and we take full responsibility for the results
• Ownership means accountability, care, and drive to go above and beyond
• Expecting Honesty and Integrity in All That We Do
• Trust is the foundation of our relationships-with customers and with each other
• We act with transparency, fairness, and respect at all times

Responsibilities:

• Create a practical, scalable risk management program tailored for Scheels by using industry standards such as COSO and ISO 31000 to set up clear rules, processes, and oversight
• Develop and maintain the company's risk universe, appetite guidance, rating criteria, and register
• Establish and lead recurring enterprise risk assessment cycles, including interviews and workshops with leadership teams across the company
• Have a vision for continuous improvement of the risk program by updating it to handle new threats, industry changes, and learning from past cases

Risk Identification, Analysis & Reporting

• Partner with business and leadership teams across the company
• Work with risk owners to develop, document, and monitor risk response and mitigation plans
• Develop key risk indicators and monitoring tools to track risk trends over time
• Prepare and deliver clear, decision-ready risk reporting and presentations to the executive committee and other stakeholders

Process Design & Ownership

• Create, document, and own core processes supporting the risk and compliance programs, including intake, assessment, escalation, remediation, and reporting workflows
• Identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, and automate risk and compliance processes
• Develop best practices and templates that enable business teams to manage risk within their own areas
• Coordinate with the Risk Manager to ensure enterprise risk priorities align with insurance, claims, and operational risk activities, avoiding gaps or duplication

Compliance Program Support

• Partner with the General Counsel to build and maintain compliance program infrastructure, including policy management, training coordination, and compliance monitoring
• Assist with tracking regulatory changes across the states where Scheels operates and translating requirements into practical business processes and controls
• Support internal audits, compliance reviews, and risk assessments, including tracking findings and remediation to completion
• Help embed compliance considerations into business processes, new initiatives, and vendor relationships
• Champion risk awareness across the organization, helping associates and leaders understand their role in identifying and managing risk
• Facilitate training to educate and cultivate an engaged risk culture
• Develop training and communication materials on risk and compliance topics
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with leaders and associates at all levels to promote open communication about risk

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Risk Management, or related field
• 5 - 7+ years of experience in…