Senior Specialist, Enterprise Risk Management

Ready to build a rewarding career in an industry that is growing?

Who We Are

We are a global mining company dedicated to safely delivering nickel, copper, cobalt, and platinum group metals essential for the world's energy transition.

Our mission is to improve lives and shape a better future together.

From utensils to cellphones to satellites, our operations simplify daily life and enhance connectivity. Our metals are integral to life-saving medical equipment and the electric vehicles driving the fight against climate change – our work truly matters.

Join our diverse team of 15,000 talented individuals committed to transforming critical minerals into prosperity and sustainable development in countries like Canada, Brazil, Indonesia, the United Kingdom, and Japan. We invite you to use your skills with us and contribute to something meaningful and enduring.

The Opportunity

We are currently seeking a Senior Specialist, Enterprise Risk Management to join our Enterprise Risk team in Toronto.

As Vale Base Metals strengthens its resilience and strategic agility, this role will be key to embedding risk into enterprise decision-making.

This role is ideal for a seasoned risk professional who thrives at the intersection of strategy and governance. You will work closely with senior leaders to embed risk into decision-making, drive alignment with enterprise objectives, and elevate risk maturity across the organization. This role also functions as a senior Subject Matter Expert (SME) in Enterprise Risk Management, providing strategic guidance and technical leadership across the organization. In addition, this position plays a pivotal role in driving transformational change, shaping the narrative for executive leadership, and embedding a forward-looking risk culture across the enterprise.

This is a permanent hybrid position.

As a Senior Specialist, Enterprise Risk Management, you will act as a strategic partner, trusted advisor and risk leader to Business Units and Corporate Functions. This role leads the deployment and continuous improvement of the Vale Base Metals ERM framework, ensuring its effective application in operational and strategic decision-making.

Beyond technical expertise, the Senior SME is expected to demonstrate strong leadership skills, influencing risk culture, fostering accountability, and enabling a proactive risk mindset across the organization. The role drives alignment with the Integrated Risk Map, Risk Appetite Statement, and critical governance processes, translating risk frameworks into practical outcomes that support value creation and resilience. Operating at both tactical and strategic levels, this role ensures that risk insights are integrated into business decisions and that risks are effectively identified, monitored, and treated.

Additionally, in this position you will:

• Serve as senior risk advisor, ensuring consistent application of the ERM framework across Business Units and Corporate Functions.
• Integrate risk management into strategic planning, operations, investments, projects, and change management processes.
• Develop, revise, and continuously improve risk policies, standards, procedures, and tools to align with governance and operational needs.
• Lead advanced risk assessments (e.g., PRA, HIRA, scenario analysis, stress testing) for critical processes and exposures.
• Provide strategic guidance on complex, systemic, and interdependent risks impacting business performance.
• Oversee risk assessments and treatment plans, ensuring alignment with risk appetite, taxonomy, and governance standards.
• Monitor emerging risks and systemic threats, and manage escalation of critical risks to senior leadership.
• Deliver risk analysis, KRIs, and CCM oversight to support informed decision-making at operational and executive levels.
• Ensure accurate risk reporting and narratives for governance forums, executive committees, and board-level reviews.
• Build risk capability and culture through training, coaching, and embedding risk practices into business processes and leadership routines.

About You

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, Business, Risk Management, Finance, or a related field

Experience:

• Minimum 10 years of progressive experience in enterprise risk, strategy, or governance roles, ideally within complex, global organizations.

Skills:

• Ability to craft and deliver compelling narratives for executive audiences, translating complex risk insights into strategic messages that influence decision-making.
• Advanced knowledge of Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) frameworks, including risk taxonomy, risk appetite, and governance structures.
• Deep expertise in operational risk methodologies, including Hazard Identification (HIRA), Process Risk Analyses (PRA), and Critical Control Management (CCM).
• Proficiency in non-operational risk management, including legal, financial, ESG, reputational, and strategic risks.
• Strong command of qualitative and quantitative risk assessment techniques, scenario analysis, stress testing, and bow-tie methodologies.
• Fluency in risk systems and data tools, including risk management platforms, Power BI, Excel dashboards, and data visualization techniques.
• Expertise in regulatory requirements, assurance processes, and corporate governance standards, ensuring alignment with internal and external compliance expectations.
• ISO 31000, COSO ERM, CRMA, CIA, CCEP). Perferred
• Ability to connect risk insights to enterprise decision-making processes, including the Integrated Risk Map, Risk Appetite Statement, investment processes, and MOC (Management of Change).
• Strong analytical capability, with rigorous problem-solving, critical thinking, and report-writing skills to support executive and board-level reporting.
• Influencing without authority, driving risk ownership across diverse stakeholders, including senior leaders, operational teams, and corporate functions.
• Strong facilitation skills, capable of leading high-impact risk workshops, cross-functional discussions, and governance forums.
• Effective communication, translating complex risk data and concepts into actionable insights for non-technical audiences.
• Systems thinking approach, understanding interdependencies across operations, functions, and risks to propose practical, integrated solutions.
• High resilience and adaptability, navigating ambiguity, change, and competing priorities while maintaining focus on outcomes.
• Strategic mindset, balancing immediate risk needs with long-term business objectives and risk culture development.
• Coaching and capability building, enabling the First Line of Defense through structured training, mentorship, and advisory support.
• Courage to challenge, engaging in constructive conflict, addressing difficult conversations, and holding stakeholders accountable for risk management practices

What We Offer You

• Competitive compensation including a variable annual incentive plan.
• Participation in a competitive Defined Contribution Pension package.
• Comprehensive benefits package (company paid core coverage, health and dental coverage, flex accounts, disability plans and optional insurances).
• Leave for all of life's reasons (vacation, personal, sick, parental).
• Flexible work arrangements.
• Work culture dedicated to safety, diversity & inclusion, and career growth.
• Employee Family Assistance Program.
• Virtual Healthcare online.
• Online training and career development opportunities.

Why Toronto

Vale's Toronto office, nestled in the heart of Canada's largest city, serves as a pivotal hub for the company's operations. This office is central to Vale's IT, strategic planning, Human Resources, and legal affairs, driving key initiatives that support the company's global mission. Toronto's vibrant, diverse, and dynamic environment enhances Vale's ability to innovate and excel in these critical areas, reflecting the city's status as a leading international business center.

Include to Transform

At Vale Base Metals, we are committed to ensuring an inclusive work environment where people feel comfortable to be themselves. Vale encourages everyone to express their ideas and opinions and values the plurality of individual profiles. We want our people to feel that all voices are heard, all cultures respected and that a variety of perspectives are not only welcome – they are critical to our success. We treat each other fairly and with dignity regardless of race,

gender, nationality, ethnic origin, religion, age, sexual orientation, or any other personal consideration that makes us different.

Vale is an equal opportunity employer seeking to increase diversity across our operations and improve equal opportunity at Vale and in the mining industry.

In accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, accommodation is available throughout our recruitment process for applicants with disabilities.

Pay Grade: F2T

Apply by: Tuesday, Dec 2, 2025

#ValeBaseMetals