Director, Risk & Resilience Program Governance

The Global Risk & Resilience Organization establishes and maintains Honeywell's enterprise-wide resilience framework, governance model, policies, standards, and minimum program requirements to ensure the company can effectively prepare for, respond to, recover from, and adapt to operational disruptions.

As the Global Director, Risk & Resilience Program Governance, you will serve as the enterprise leader responsible for the strategy, governance, oversight, and continuous improvement of Honeywell's resilience program, including Business Continuity, Crisis Management, Technology Resilience, and Incident Management Governance. You will define and maintain the enterprise resilience framework, ensuring consistency, accountability, and effective risk management across all Strategic Business Groups (SBGs) and corporate functions and partnering closely with SBG Risk & Resilience leaders who are accountable for implementing and operationalizing the program within their businesses. You will act as a trusted advisor to executive leadership and key stakeholders, ensuring resilience capabilities remain aligned with Honeywell's business objectives, risk profile, and operational priorities.

This role is responsible for establishing minimum program standards, governance requirements, metrics, reporting, training, and maturity expectations for resilience.  

Additionally, you will partner closely with Honeywell's Third-Party Cyber Risk and Supplier Resilience leader to ensure suppliers and external partners critical to business continuity are aligned to enterprise resilience requirements and governance expectations, strengthening Honeywell's ability to withstand and recover from third-party disruptions.

You will lead governance of Honeywell’s Global Security policies, standards, and Technical Control Manuals, overseeing their lifecycle to keep requirements current, risk-informed, and aligned with business and regulatory needs. Working with cross-functional stakeholders, you will integrate resilience requirements, monitor compliance and control effectiveness, and drive continuous improvement while enabling the business.

Travel Requirements

• Up to 20% domestic and international travel.

YOU MUST HAVE

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution in a technical discipline such as the sciences, technology, engineering, or mathematics
• 10+ years of experience leading enterprise resilience, business continuity, crisis management, operational resilience, technology resilience, or risk management programs.
• Demonstrated experience designing, governing, and improving enterprise-wide resilience frameworks, policies, standards, and operating models.
• Experience working with executive leadership and influencing strategic decisions in large, complex, global organizations.
• Professional certification in Business Continuity, Risk Management, Resilience, Crisis Management, (CBCP, MBCI, CBCI, CRMP, DRII).
• Proven experience leading complex, cross-functional initiatives across multiple business units and regions.
• Strong analytical and program management skills, with experience leveraging data and metrics to drive decision-making and program maturity.
• Exceptional communication, stakeholder management, and executive presentation skills.
• Demonstrated experience developing, governing, and managing enterprise policies, standards, control frameworks, and governance processes within a large global organization.

WE VALUE

• Deep expertise in Business Continuity, Crisis Management, Technology Resilience, Operational Resilience, and Incident Management.
• Experience building and managing enterprise governance programs within a global organization.
• Knowledge of third-party risk management, supplier resilience, and critical dependency management.
• Strategic mindset with the ability to translate risks into practical, business-focused resilience solutions.
• Strong leadership and influencing skills with the ability to drive alignment across diverse stakeholder groups.
• Ability to balance enterprise governance responsibilities with practical business needs.
• High level of accountability, ownership, and attention to detail.
• Passion for organizational preparedness, resilience, and continuous improvement.
• Experience leading enterprise governance programs, including policy lifecycle management, standards development, control frameworks, and compliance oversight.
• Knowledge of security governance principles, policy management practices, and technical control frameworks.

Success in this role will be measured by the strength and maturity of Honeywell's enterprise resilience program; the effectiveness of governance, oversight, and reporting mechanisms; the consistency of implementation across businesses; and the overall effectiveness of Global Security's policy, standards, and Technical Control Manual governance framework. This includes ensuring that enterprise requirements remain current, risk-informed, consistently applied, and capable of enabling Honeywell to effectively prepare for, respond to, recover from, and adapt to disruptions while protecting employees, customers, operations, and corporate objectives.

Enterprise Program Leadership

• Lead the development, governance, and continuous improvement of Honeywell's enterprise resilience program, including: 
  • Business Continuity
  • Crisis Management
  • Technology Resilience
  • Incident Management Governance
• Establish and govern enterprise resilience policies, standards, frameworks, methodologies, and minimum requirements.
• Drive the strategic direction, maturity, and continuous improvement of resilience capabilities across the organization.
• Ensure resilience programs align with business priorities, regulatory requirements, industry best practices, and emerging risks.
• Define and monitor KPIs, KRIs, maturity metrics, and executive reporting to measure resilience performance and risk exposure.
• Partner with senior leaders, Enterprise Risk Management, and business stakeholders to strengthen risk management, recovery capabilities, crisis preparedness, and third-party resilience.
• Serve as the enterprise resilience governance leader, providing oversight, guidance, tools, best practices, training, and cross-functional collaboration across business units and functions.

Global Security Governance

• Own the governance framework supporting Global Security Policies, Standards, and Technical Control Manuals (TCMs), ensuring effective development, review, approval, maintenance, communication, and oversight.
• Establish and maintain governance processes that ensure policies, standards, and TCMs remain current, risk-informed, actionable, and aligned with business priorities, regulatory requirements, and industry best practices.
• Lead the enterprise governance lifecycle for Global Security documentation, including periodic reviews, stakeholder engagement, exception management, version control, and executive approvals.
• Partner with Security, Cybersecurity, Legal, Compliance, Enterprise Risk Management, Audit, and business stakeholders to ensure governance requirements are consistently understood and implemented.
• Define and monitor governance metrics, compliance indicators, and reporting mechanisms that provide visibility into policy adherence, control effectiveness, exception trends, and areas requiring remediation.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to simplify, strengthen, and mature Honeywell's security governance framework while balancing enterprise requirements with business enablement.
• Ensure resilience requirements and governance expectations are effectively integrated into Global Security Policies, Standards, and TCMs where appropriate.