Driven by a commitment to improving lives, WSA seeks to reinforce its leadership in the hearing aid market by expanding penetration in underserved segments and accelerating the business transformation to reach more people more effectively.

This role reports directly to our Chief Legal Officer and focuses on creating and maintaining a comprehensive resilience framework, ensuring effective identification, assessment, and response to enterprise risks and crises.

What you will do

• Enterprise Risk Management: Develop and enhance risk management frameworks, including governance and reporting.

• Risk Identification and Assessment: Collaborate with leaders to pinpoint and evaluate various risks and mitigation strategies.

• Risk Reporting: Generate regular reports for senior management and boards on emerging risks and mitigation progress.

• Crisis Management: Establish policies and protocols for crisis situations.

• Incident and Crisis Response: Coordinate responses to significant incidents, ensuring effective communication and documentation.

• Business Continuity Management: Oversee the development and testing of business continuity plans and strategies.

• Exercises and Training: Facilitate training and simulations for crisis teams and stakeholders.

• Continuous Improvement: Implement lessons learned from incidents to enhance processes.

• Stakeholder Engagement: Foster risk awareness and resilience planning across the organization.

• External Alignment: Stay updated on regulatory and industry standards to maintain an effective resilience framework.

What you bring

Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant fields; a master’s is advantageous.

• Professional certifications in risk management or related areas are desirable.

• Proven experience in enterprise risk, crisis management, and compliance.

• Experience with senior stakeholders in complex organizations.

Personal competencies

• Strategic Thinking & Market Insight : Ability to understand competitive landscapes to define a clear product vision and roadmap

• Analytical & Problem-Solving Skills : Ability to analyze data, identify trends, and translate insights into actionable recommendations and business decisions

• Leadership & Stakeholder Management : Capacity to lead cross-functional teams, influence stakeholders, and foster collaboration between sales, marketing and operations

• Communication & Presentation Skills : Clear and persuasive communicator, able to articulate product strategies and value propositions to internal teams and external partners

• Composure and decisiveness in pressure situations.

Who we are

At WSA, we provide innovative hearing aids and hearing health services.

Together with our 12,000 colleagues in 130 countries, we invite you to help unlock human potential by bringing back hearing for millions of people around the world.

With us, you will become part of a truly global company where we care for one another, welcome diversity and celebrate our successes.

Sounds wonderful? We can't wait to hear from you.

WSA is an equal-opportunity employer and committed to creating an inclusive employee experience for all. Regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, disability, military or veteran status we firmly believe that our work is at its best when everyone feels free to be their most authentic self.