Director of Risk Management

OUTCOMES (YEAR ONE) Complete a comprehensive risk assessment across PLS entities within 90 days. Evaluate insurance coverage adequacy (cargo, auto liability, broker/contingent liability, E&O, cyber), litigation and claims exposure, and organizational/operational risk across both entities post-merger, and present prioritized findings to the President and executive team. Design and stand up PLS's enterprise risk management (ERM) framework and organizational structure within 6 months. Define risk ownership, escalation paths, and a reporting cadence to the President and executive team; recommend where the risk function sits organizationally as PLS scales. Hire, onboard, and stand up a risk management team within 6–9 months. Build the team needed to run claims handling, insurance program administration, and ongoing risk analytics without President-level involvement. Build and operationalize a negligent-selection/broker-liability defense strategy with Legal within 6 months. In direct response to Montgomery v. Caribe Transport II, partner with the Director of Carrier Compliance and legal counsel to establish documentation standards, litigation-readiness protocols, and a coordinated response plan for negligent-hiring and broker-liability claims. Optimize the company's insurance program and reduce total cost of risk by [X]% within 12 months (baseline to be established in month 1–2). Review and renegotiate cargo, auto liability, broker liability, cyber, and E&O coverage with brokers/carriers to close gaps identified in the initial risk assessment while managing overall premium and retained-risk cost. Launch a live risk register with quarterly executive reporting within 6 months, ongoing thereafter. Track identified risks, mitigation owners, status, and residual risk ratings; report quarterly to the President and executive team. COMPETENCIES Honesty/Integrity — Gives leadership an unvarnished view of organizational risk, even when it is uncomfortable. Analysis Skills — Quantifies exposure across insurance, litigation, and operational risk to prioritize what matters most. Strategic Thinking — Translates a fragmented risk landscape into an organizational structure and multi-year mitigation strategy. Building Relationships — Builds trusted working relationships with Legal, insurance brokers/carriers, and executive leadership to execute strategy collaboratively. Persuasion/Negotiation — Negotiates coverage terms with insurance carriers and builds internal buy-in for new risk controls. Organization and Planning — Sequences a build-out spanning assessment, structure design, team hiring, and insurance renegotiation. Proactivity — Identifies and moves to mitigate emerging risks before they become claims or litigation. Composure Under Pressure — Stays level-headed and decisive when managing active claims, litigation, or crisis-level exposure. Bracketed [X]% targets are placeholders pending baseline data (fraud/incident rates, current total cost of risk) — to be finalized with the President in the first 30–60 days. #J-18808-Ljbffr