Director of Risk Management

Stanley Martin Homes Corporate Office, 11710 Plaza America Dr., Reston, Virginia, United States of America

Posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 4:00 AM

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Stanley Martin Homes is one of the largest 25 homebuilders in the United States and it has been consistently one of the fastest growing. We are proud of the people-first culture that makes it possible.

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Stanley Martin Holdings is creating a dedicated risk management function to support a rapidly growing and expanding enterprise. The Director of Risk Management will help build and lead this new function, with responsibility for insurance, claims, operational risk, and related governance matters across Stanley Martin’s homebuilding operations, mortgage company, title operations, land development business, and other current and future business activities.

This role supports the Chief Legal Officer in identifying, evaluating, and managing risks affecting Stanley Martin Holdings and its affiliated businesses. The Director of Risk Management will work directly with Legal, Finance, Accounting, Human Resources, Construction, Land, Purchasing, Safety, and other operations and business teams across several different business lines to help protect the Company’s assets, reduce losses, improve processes, and support operational execution across the organization.

The role will also supervise an existing risk management employee and will be expected to develop the people, processes, systems, and reporting needed for a maturing risk management function.

Exceptional candidates with significant industry and leadership experience may be considered at the Vice President level.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Build, formalize, and continuously improve the Company’s risk management function, including scalable processes, reporting routines, tools, workflows, policies, templates, checklists, and service standards that can support the Company’s continued growth and expansion into new or expanded business lines.
• Manage the Company’s property and casualty insurance programs, including general liability, workers’ compensation, automobile liability, umbrella/excess liability, builder’s risk, cyber liability, directors’ and officers’ liability, fiduciary liability, professional liability, and other specialty coverages.
• Lead the annual insurance renewal process, including gathering underwriting information, reviewing and submitting applications, working with brokers and carriers, supporting renewal presentations, and reviewing policies, endorsements, certificates of insurance, coverage summaries, and related materials for accuracy and completeness.
• Manage day-to-day relationships with brokers, carriers, third-party administrators, consultants, outside counsel, and other insurance and risk management advisors.
• Work with the Company’s captive insurance company and related advisors to evaluate and implement appropriate uses of the captive as part of the Company’s overall insurance, claims, risk financing, and risk management strategy.
• Manage insurance claims, including workers' compensation, general liability, automobile liability, property damage, construction defect, employment practices, and other insured matters, and coordinate with carriers, brokers, adjusters, and internal stakeholders regarding claim reporting, coverage, and resolution.
• Track claim trends, loss history, reserves, settlements, premiums, deductibles, self-insured retentions, claim payments, and other key risk management costs and data, and prepare…