Company Overview

Bridgestone Americas, Inc. (BSAM), headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, and Bridgestone Europe, Middle East and Africa (BSEMEA), headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, operate collectively as a “Bridgestone West” strategic region. This region services the strategic business needs of teams across the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Africa. BSAM and BSEMEA are subsidiaries of Bridgestone Corporation, globally headquartered in Japan. Bridgestone and its subsidiaries develop, manufacture and market a wide range of Bridgestone, Firestone and associate brand products and solutions to address the needs of a broad range of customers and industries.

General Management

This position plays an important role within the West Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) function, working closely with and reporting to senior ERM leadership. The West ERM function is part of the Chief Risk Officer team, which in turn is part of the Chief Legal Officer group.

The ERM role is responsible for coordinating and facilitating enterprise risk assessments, workshops, and calibration sessions; maintaining high-quality risk reporting and analytics; and ensuring that risk mitigation initiatives are well-understood, actively tracked, and communicated with discipline across a large, complex, multinational organization. The successful candidate is a business-facing ERM professional who works with a high degree of independence across functions and business units to advance the ERM program and support effective risk-informed decision-making at all levels of the organization. The role also provides secondary support for Business Continuity Planning (BCP), Crisis Playbook Development, and other risk resilience activities.

• Coordinate and facilitate enterprise risk workshops, calibration sessions, and risk assessment cycles across business units and functions.
• Maintain enterprise risk registers, ensuring risk profiles are current, accurately documented, and reflective of the evolving risk landscape.
• Track risk mitigation initiative status, ownership, and progress across the enterprise and communicate updates to relevant stakeholders.
• Prepare and maintain high-quality enterprise risk reports and dashboards for senior leadership and governance committees.
• Support development and presentation of executive- and Board-level presentation materials.
• Research and analyze emerging risks and contribute to emerging risk briefings and assessments.
• Build and maintain effective working relationships with risk owners and business partners across functions and geographies.
• Apply structured project management practices to ERM workstreams to keep activities organized and on schedule.
• Support resilience activities to include BCP, development of crisis management playbooks, and related risk resilience frameworks.
• Contribute to ERM program improvement initiatives, governance activities, and special projects as directed.
   

• Bachelor's degree required; preferred concentrations in Business, Finance, Risk Management, or a related discipline.
• Minimum 2 years of progressive experience in ERM, management consulting, internal audit, or a related field.
• Demonstrated experience facilitating risk workshops or structured risk-analytical processes with cross-functional stakeholder groups.
• Strong project management and organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple concurrent priorities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to translate complex risk concepts into clear narratives for senior and Board-level audiences.
• Proven ability to engage and influence stakeholders across organizational levels without direct authority.
• Experience in a large, complex global or multinational organization strongly preferred.
• Working knowledge of ERM frameworks (e.g., COSO, ISO 31000); familiarity with BCP principles a plus.
• Ability to travel as needed.  Principal responsibilities typically involve minimal travel (1-3 domestic trips per year).  Secondary responsibilities may involve more travel on a temporary basis.
  

Nice to have:

• Fluent in Spanish and/or Portuguese a plus.

At Bridgestone, you are Free to Be

We believe people can only provide superior service and quality to others when they feel safe bringing their chosen version of themselves to work. We believe in championing all perspectives, individuals and teams because we understand the importance of seeing the world and our business through many different lenses. So, show us what you are made of, because who you are is what we need.

What we offer

At Bridgestone, what really matters is to foster co-creation opportunities and empowering you to be creative and curious to make mobility safer, more efficient, and more sustainable for future generations. Whatever role you fill, when you represent Bridgestone, you are a valued teammate, and part of our larger mission to “Serve Society with Superior Quality”, for that, we offer you more than just a competitive compensation; we will provide you:

• A supportive and engaging onboarding experience to ensure a smooth transition into our team.
• The opportunity to develop and grow, through training and regular mentorship.
• Corporate Social Responsibility activities.
• A truly global, dynamic and challenging work environment.
• Agility and work/life effectiveness and your long-term well-being.
• An effective and inclusive team.

Bridgestone is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. It is our policy to consider all individuals for employment based on their unique merit and without regard to age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.

Employment Eligibility

If hired, a Form I-9 Employment Eligibility Verification must be completed at the start of employment. Temporary work authorization or the need for sponsorship may disqualify you from employment.