Associate Director - Risk (M4)

About Mace and the project

Responsibilities

• Champion safety-first values, apply stop-work authority, and promote wellbeing standards.
• Demonstrate leadership aligned with organizational values and mentor and coach junior staff.
• Implement and continuously improve risk frameworks, registers, dashboards, and reporting processes.
• Facilitate risk workshops, reviews, and assessments to identify, evaluate, and mitigate project risks.
• Integrate risk controls into project plans, schedules, and budgets in collaboration with project teams.
• Maintain high-quality risk data, support best-practice compliance, and monitor changing risk profiles proactively.
• Help identify and manage carbon emissions and reductions during delivery in support of the net-zero transition.

Requirements

• Degree or diploma in risk management, engineering, or project management.
• 10+ years of risk leadership experience on major projects, ideally in Saudi Arabia or the Middle East.
• Strong expertise in risk tools, analytics, and stakeholder collaboration.
• Relevant experience on high-value projects or programmes for a project management consultancy, required for immigration and client approval.
• Meet the necessary visa criteria for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Preferred qualification

• Chartered membership or recognized professional certification is preferred.

Values and working culture

• Mace emphasizes safety, wellbeing, client focus, integrity, compliance, inclusion, and continuous improvement.
• The employer welcomes candidates who may not meet every listed criterion and may consider them for this or another role.

Work arrangements

• Part-time, flexible, and hybrid working options may be discussed if suitable for the role.