Vice President Model Risk Management Jobs in Miami, FL

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Job Description:

The Vice President of Enterprise Risk Management is responsible for leading, managing, administering, organizing, and directing enterprise-wide risk management, insurance and safety programs across Seminole Gaming and Hard Rock International, as well as supporting Seminole Tribal government requirements where applicable. The Vice President of Enterprise Risk Management reports to the Chief Financial Officer of Seminole Gaming and Hard Rock International.

This role provides strategic leadership and operational oversight of global risk, safety, insurance, and business continuity programs across a diverse portfolio of casino, hotel, and entertainment assets. The Vice President ensures the protection of the organization’s people, physical assets, and financial resources while enabling strategic growth through proactive risk management and data-driven decision-making. 

Essential duties include, but are not limited to:

• Executes a global risk management and safety strategy aligned with enterprise objectives and risk appetite.
• Leads the development of an enterprise risk framework, including risk identification, assessment, mitigation, and monitoring across all operations.
• Maintains and oversees the enterprise risk register and provides regular reporting to executive leadership.
• Identifies and implements appropriate risk mitigation controls across human, physical, and financial exposures.
• Implements and chairs the Risk and Safety Committee, establishing governance structures and enterprise-wide accountability for threats a to Team Members, Guests and Assets of the Tribe.
• Provides executive oversight of enterprise-wide insurance programs, including property, casualty, liability, financial lines, and specialty coverages.
• Leads assurance placement strategy with key brokers, including negotiation of terms, market evaluation, and optimization of coverage structures.
• Advises leadership on coverage strategy, limits, deductibles, and emerging insurance needs to ensure optimal protection and cost efficiency.
• Ensures protection of real estate, vehicles, equipment, watercraft, and aircraft through effective risk transfer and mitigation strategies.
• Oversees the compilation, validation, and submission of underwriting data for all global programs.
• Establishes a standardized data and reporting environment to support decision-making.
• Analyzes trends across safety, claims, and operations to proactively mitigate risk.
• Develops and executes a risk and safety technology roadmap, leveraging appropriate systems, configuration and tools to identify areas of opportunity to reduce risk and TCOR, increase management visibility into areas of risk/opportunity.
• Oversees all phases of the claims management lifecycle, including intake, investigation, evaluation, settlement, and litigation support.
• Oversees enterprise-wide Workers’ Compensation programs, including claims administration, treatment coordination, and return-to-work programs.
• Ensures consistency, efficiency, and transparency in claims handling across all jurisdictions and business units.
• Partners with legal counsel, insurers, and third-party administrators in negotiations, mediations, and trials as required.
• Maintains alignment between operations, HR, claims administrators, and insurers to ensure effective case management and cost control.
• Leads efforts related to catastrophic event preparedness, including hurricane readiness and disaster recovery planning.
• Conducts post-event reviews and drives continuous improvement of crisis preparedness programs.
• Directs and oversees global safety and loss prevention programs across all operations.
• Establishes standardized safety policies, procedures, and audit protocols to promote consistency and compliance.
• Ensures monthly accountability of safety audits, including tracking, reporting, and remediation follow-up.
• Design and implement initiatives to reduce loss frequency and severity using data-driven insights.
• Fosters coordination across operations, security, HR, finance, and legal teams.
• Builds and leads a high-performing global risk and safety organization.
• Promotes a risk-aware and safety-focused culture across all levels of the enterprise.
• Supports regulatory compliance efforts, including coordination of required inspections and licensing standards.
• Develops, implements, and manages the annual department budget, including insurance costs, actuarial reviews, and forecasting.
• Oversees financial performance of risk programs, including self-insured structures and trust accounts.
• Supports capital planning and ensures alignment between risk mitigation strategies and capital investment decisions.
• Advises leadership on risk implications of new business ventures, partnerships, and operational changes.
• Represents the organization in industry forums, professional associations, and regulatory interactions.
• Develops and delivers training programs and executive presentations on risk, safety, and loss prevention.

Qualifications

Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Risk Management, Insurance, Business Administration, or related field required
• Master’s degree preferred
• Minimum of 10+ years of progressive experience in risk management, insurance, safety, or related discipline, with preference for experience in Casino and/or Hospitality industries
• Minimum of 7+ years in senior leadership roles, overseeing enterprise or global programs
• Experience managing complex, multi-location, multi-entity or global risk portfolios.  
• Experience implementing a global risk and safety audit/accountability process coupled with a safety and risk committee governance structure for oversight
• Experience implementing a RMIS system implementation and overhaul, as well as optimizing configuration and reporting from the system for purposes of increasing visibility into (and minimizing) TCOR.

Work Environment:

• Duties and responsibilities are typically performed in a professional office setting, but there will be times where you will need to travel and be in operating areas. In these areas, you may be exposed to environmental factors including, but not limited to, second hand smoke and excessive noise.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms, talk or hear; and taste or smell. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close, distance, color, and peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Disclaimer
While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, management reserves the right to revise the current job or to require that other or different tasks be performed when circumstances change, (e.g. emergencies, changes in personnel, workload, rush jobs or technical developments).

The Company gives preference in all of its employment practices to Native Americans. First preference in hiring, promoting and in all other aspects of employment is given to members of the Seminole Tribe who meet the job requirements. Second preference is given to members of other federally recognized Native American Tribes who meet the job requirements.