Assistant Vice President - Associate Principal, Advisory Risk R%26D POD Lead

Inviting applications for the role of Assistant Vice President - Associate Principal, Advisory Risk R&D POD Lead

The Advisory Risk R&D POD Leader is responsible for designing, developing, and maturing Risk Advisory offerings that align with enterprise priorities. This role leads a focused Risk POD within the Advisory R&D structure to generate market insights, convert them into differentiated offerings, and ensure successful validation through POCs/POVs.

Responsibilities

1. Offering Strategy & Roadmap

• Recommend the Risk Advisory offering strategy, ensuring alignment with overall Advisory offering priorities and R&D frameworks.

• Translate market, regulatory, and technology trends into actionable offering concepts and structured development roadmaps.

• Drive prioritization of Risk offerings with a strong bias toward advisory value creation over product development.

2. Research, Insights & Market Intelligence

• Conduct deep research on emerging Risk trends, competitor activity, and advanced Risk technologies to fuel new offering opportunities.

• Leverage access to platforms (e.g., Gartner, IDC) and internal data signals to shape evidence-based offering direction.

• Create and publish a monthly Demand and Market Scan highlighting how the industry is evolving, key market developments, and our forwardlooking vision for Advisory Risk.

3. Offering Development & Iteration

• Lead the design, development, and refinement of Risk Advisory offerings-ensuring each concept is iteratively improved through feedback from Risk Advisory leaders, Solutions teams, and domain SMEs.

• Refresh and mature existing offerings while identifying obsolete ones for sunset.

4. Validation Through POCs & POVs

• Plan and execute POCs/POVs with clients or internal environments to validate feasibility, relevance, and value realization of the offerings.

• Analyze results and make data-backed recommendations for scaling or pivoting offerings.

5. Stakeholder Collaboration

• Partner closely with Risk Advisory Leadership , Industry Advisory teams, Growth Ops, and Ent Sales to ensure offerings are market-ready and integrated into client pursuits.

• Act as the Risk innovation steward within the broader Advisory R&D ecosystem.

6. Portfolio Governance & Performance Tracking

• Track performance of pilots, offering adoption, pipeline impact, and booking influence publish dashboards for leadership visibility.

• Ensure disciplined budget utilization across people, innovation initiatives, and tools/information subscriptions (e.g., research platforms).

Qualifications we seek in you!

Minimum Qualifications

• Strong Risk domain expertise (Enterprise Risk Consultant, or similar).

• Proven experience in offering development, solutioning, consulting, or transformation programs, digital transformation, and emerging technologies.

Preferred Qualifications/ Skills

• Excellent communication and analytical skills.

• Ability to synthesize market insights into practical, scalable offerings.