Vice President, Risk Framework, Governance and Regulatory Engagement Lead

We're seeking someone to join our team as a Risk Framework, Governance and Regulatory Engagement Lead to define and strengthen the third-party risk management framework, governance standards, policy alignment, and regulatory-ready execution across the third-party lifecycle. In the Corporate Services division, we empower our businesses by creating collaborative workplace solutions and commercial services that enhance the employee and client experience, while optimizing the value of our sourcing and third-party lifecycle to enable the Firm to do-and-win business. Since 1935, Morgan Stanley is known as a global leader in financial services, always evolving and innovating to better serve our clients and our communities in more than 40 countries around the world. What you'll do in the role: \- Own and continuously improve the third-party risk management framework, including risk tiering, materiality, applicability criteria, inherent and residual risk methodology, due diligence standards, continuous monitoring expectations, control requirements, and emerging risk coverage. \- Design right-sized controls for operational resilience, critical services, and other emerging third-party risk areas, ensuring controls are proportionate, explainable, and aligned to regulatory expectations. \- Strengthen governance through clear decision rights, committee routines, escalation protocols, issue management expectations, policy and procedure alignment, regulatory response coordination, and senior management reporting. \- Use AI-enabled analytics and automation to identify risk patterns, supplier risk signals, policy gaps, control inconsistencies, duplicate requirements, manual process friction, and opportunities to simplify or right-size due diligence requirements. \- Partner with platform, data, reporting, analytics, technology, and operations teams to embed methodology, governance requirements, controls, and escalation rules into automated workflows, dashboards, reporting packs, and decision support tools. \- Oversee training, procedures, job aids, and knowledge materials to ensure they remain aligned to policy, methodology, governance decisions, platform changes, and regulatory expectations. What you'll bring to the role: \- 12+ years of experience driving strategic programs, regulatory and governance initiatives, operational transformation, executive stakeholder engagement, and enterprise-wide project delivery. \- Strong understanding of third-party risk management, outsourcing and non-outsourcing risk, due diligence, continuous monitoring, control design, operational resilience, critical services, emerging risk, and regulatory expectations. \- Experience designing, implementing, or improving risk frameworks, governance routines, policy requirements, procedure standards, issue escalation models, and senior management reporting processes. \- Demonstrated ability to use AI, analytics, automation, and workflow tools to improve risk identification, process efficiency, assessment consistency, stakeholder experience, and management insight. \- Ability to translate regulatory expectations and risk requirements into practical controls, procedures, training content, platform requirements, and operational decision rules. \- Strong executive communication and influencing skills, including the ability to create governance-ready materials, explain complex risk concepts clearly, and drive adoption across regions, business units, control partners, and senior stakeholders. \- Ability to lead through ambiguity, simplify complex requirements, and balance regulatory expectations with practical execution for business users and control partners. The position’s work location will be 1445 Ross Ave, Dallas, TX 75202 at a future date. The role may begin remotely until the office location becomes available. In-Person interviews will be required for the role. WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM MORGAN STANLEY: At Morgan Stanley, we raise, manage and allocate capital for our clients – helping them reach their goals. We do it in a way that’s differentiated – and we’ve done that for 90 years. Our values - putting clients first, doing the right thing, leading with exceptional ideas, committing to diversity and inclusion, and giving back - aren’t just beliefs, they guide the decisions we make every day to do what's best for our clients, communities and more than 80,000 employees in 1,200 offices across 42 countries. At Morgan Stanley, you’ll find an opportunity to work alongside the best and the brightest, in an environment where you are supported and empowered. Our teams are relentless collaborators and creative thinkers, fueled by their diverse backgrounds and experiences. We are proud to support our employees and their families at every point along their work-life journey, offering some of the most attractive and comprehensive employee benefits and perks in the industry. There’s also ample opportunity to move about the business for those who show passion and grit in their work. To learn more about our offices across the globe, please copy and paste https://www.morganstanley.com/about-us/global-offices​ into your browser. Expected base pay rates for the role will be between $130,000 and $182,500 per year at the commencement of employment. However, base pay if hired will be determined on an individualized basis and is only part of the total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may also include commission earnings, incentive compensation, discretionary bonuses, other short and long-term incentive packages, and other Morgan Stanley sponsored benefit programs. Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunity employer committed to building and maintaining a workforce that is diverse in experience and background. Our recruiting efforts reflect our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion, where individuals are hired, developed, and advanced based on their skills and talents. Our workforce reflects a broad cross-section of the global communities in which we operate, bringing a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives, and experiences. For more information, please visit: https://www.morganstanley.com/people-opportunities/eeo.