Minor International (MINT) is a global company focused on three core businesses: restaurants, hospitality and lifestyle brands distribution. MINT is one of Asia’s largest restaurant companies with over 2,000 outlets operating system-wide in 19 countries under The Pizza Company, Swensen’s, Sizzler, Dairy Queen, Burger King, Thai Express, The Coffee Club, and Riverside brands. MINT is also a hotel owner, operator and investor with a portfolio of 155 hotels and serviced suites under the Anantara, AVANI, Oaks, Tivoli, Elewana Collection, JW Marriott, Four Seasons, St. Regis, Radisson Blu and Minor International brands in 24 countries across Asia Pacific, the Middle East, Africa, the Indian Ocean, Europe and South America. MINT is one of Thailand’s largest distributors of lifestyle brands focusing primarily on fashion, home and kitchenware and contract manufacturing. Its brands include OVS, Brooks Brothers, Esprit, Bossini, Etam, Charles & Keith, Pedro, Radley, Anello, Zwilling J.A. Henckels, Joseph Joseph and ETL Learning. Bemynt is MINT’s e-commerce platform offering premium fashion and lifestyle products. For more information, please visit www.minorinternational.com.

Overall roles and responsibilities:

Risk Management Framework and Strategy

- Assist the Head Of Department (HOD) in the development, implementation and oversight of a global ERM program and ensuring that all procedures, protocols, and strategies are fully implemented

Risk Committee and Senior Management

- Facilitate the Risk Committee (RC) meetings, and works with appropriate leaders to foster an insightful discussion and a productive debate on the company’s risks and opportunities

Program execution

- Guides and supports the company’s functions as they execute their risk management responsibilities, driving consistency and robustness across the enterprise,

- Facilitate regular risk-assessments and escalates key risks and recommendations to the executive management, as appropriate,

- Risk reporting tailored to the relevant audience,

- Establishes key metrics to monitor the organization’s risk profile and position,

- Recommend policy changes and provide guidance to business units in the implementation,

- Monitor loss event reporting and identify emerging operational risk trends or specific vulnerabilities that are not identified or appropriately prioritized in existing risk assessments,

- Monitors risks and controls, and where there are issues/failures, develops root cause analysis and ensure corrective actions are implemented,

- Develops and delivers audience-appropriate ERM trainings to enhance the “culture” of risk management and application of risk management in business processes,

Professional knowledge, communication and teamwork/network

- Strong interpersonal and communication skills to communicate effectively with all levels both within and outside the company,

- Serve as a subject matter expert on all compliance and risk management related issues,

- Leverages risk insights to serve as a ‘dot connector’ to promote and ensure a consistent and robust approach to risk management across the enterprise, including aligning with Internal Audit on the creation of the Internal Audit Plan and to influence appropriate coverage of auditable risks,

- Sees opportunities for strategy and integration where others can’t, can simplify complex processes,

- Demonstrate dependability and a commitment to quality and flexibility to ensure needs of the Company’s risk Management goals are met

Qualification

- Bachelor or Master’s degree, preferably in the field of Finance or Business Management

- A minimum of 10 years working experience at senior level with a multinational company with strong knowledge of Governance, Enterprise Risk Management and Compliance Framework

- Fluent in English

- Able to translate risk management & best practices into practical solutions for the businesses

- Strong people and communication skills

- Strong problem-solving capability and ability to work independently and as a Team

- Familiar with various risk management software tools

- Good computer literacy in Microsoft Office

- Experience in hotel, food and retail business would be an advantage

- Risk Management or professional certification would be an advantage