Project Manager, Risk Americas

The Risk Committee PMO role serves as the operational backbone for the Americas Risk Committee (ARC) and its related risk oversight functions, including Enterprise Risk Management (ERM), Internal Audit, and Legal & Regulatory Compliance. The PMO is responsible for building and running the project infrastructure that keeps risk and compliance initiatives moving, including designing, coordinating, and operationalizing the governance infrastructure supporting the ARC.

This role serves as the central integrator of risk information, governance processes, and executive reporting, ensuring the ARC operates as a highly effective, decision‑oriented executive forum. Japanese language skills and familiarity with Daikin culture are strongly desired.

• Plan, coordinate, and manage all ARC meetings (quarterly and ad‑hoc)
• Develop decision‑focused agendas aligned to ARC priorities with input from ARC facilitators (i.e., Jaime and Manish)
• Prepare and distribute integrated pre‑read materials
• Facilitate meeting logistics and ensure clear documentation of outcomes
• Maintain action logs, decision registers, and follow‑up tracking

• Track remediation actions, owners, and timelines
• Monitor progress against risk mitigation plans and KPIs/KRIs
• Escalate delays, gaps, or issues to ARC leadership
• Ensure closure and validation of risk actions

• Consolidate inputs from ERM, Internal Audit, and Legal & Compliance
• Develop a single, integrated ARC reporting package
• Ensure consistency in risk taxonomy, scoring, and messaging
• Highlight cross‑discipline risk convergence
• Produce executive‑level dashboards, heat maps, and trend analysis

• Serve as the primary liaison across ERM, Internal Audit, Legal & Compliance
• Partner with functional leaders to improve risk reporting quality
• Support onboarding of new ARC members and participants
• Provide guidance on ARC expectations, roles, and governance processes

• ARC agendas and meeting materials
• Integrated quarterly ARC reporting package
• Enterprise risk dashboards and heat maps
• Action and decision tracking logs
• Audit Committee risk reporting inputs
• ARC governance documentation and updates
• Perform additional activities/projects to support ongoing business needs

• Anticipates internal and/or external business challenges and/or regulatory issues; recommends process, product or service improvements
• Solves unique and complex problems that have a broad impact on the business
• Contributes to the development of functional strategy
• Leads teams or projects with broad visibility to achieve milestones and objectives

• Strong project‑management and organization skills
• Experience with executive‑level reporting and communication
• Ability to synthesize complex information into clear insights
• Enterprise mindset and cross‑functional collaboration
• Strong facilitation and stakeholder influence skills
• High attention to detail with strategic perspective
• Ability to operate effectively in ambiguity and transformation
• Strong strategic thinking capabilities with the ability to translate strategy into plans for execution
• Open, inclusive, team‑oriented work style; collaborative with employees and leaders at all levels
• Commitment to excellence; honest communication and purposeful leadership
• Solid understanding of business concepts, strategic alignment, and talent implications
• Excellent strategic planning and operational deployment skills; integration of strategy, people, and activities across functions, processes, and teams
• Ability to grasp issues quickly and carry designs through implementation and measurement
• Adaptability in fast‑paced environments while navigating change
• Intuitive, strategic, and conceptual thinker with orientation to detail and results

• 12+ years of experience in corporate function project management; knowledge of Internal Audit, Compliance, or Risk Management is a plus
• Experience supporting executive governance committees is preferred
• Familiarity with COSO ERM, IIA Standards, or similar frameworks
• Strong PowerPoint and executive presentation development…