Risk Manager - Enterprise

Salary and benefits

• Base salary is £41,092 to £48,344 per annum, depending on skills and experience.
• A flexible benefits fund of 15% is paid on top of base salary and is fully pensionable; additional competitive benefits are offered.

Role purpose

Responsibilities

• Support an integrated view of risk across the programme and advise teams on risk management and mitigation.
• Help develop and deliver risk policies, processes, and standards, applying best practice and continuous improvement.
• Promote consistent application of risk policies and processes across the programme lifecycle.
• Support joint risk evaluations with Project Controls and the supply chain to establish risk profiles, risk sharing, and incentives.
• Support periodic risk and performance reporting for leadership decisions on risk, contingency, and risk sharing.
• Advise development and delivery areas and guide teams in understanding risk data.
• Provide functional line management, performance management, and objective-setting support to direct reports.
• Support quantitative risk assessment policies and processes; analyse threats, opportunities, and issues using risk tools.
• Statistically model cost, time, and other risk exposures, ensuring quantitative models are robust and auditable.
• Assess overall programme risk exposure to inform Finance forecasts.
• Work with Risk Managers, Planners, Cost Managers, and Project Controls Managers on cost and schedule risk assessments.
• Produce risk exposure scenarios over time and compare them with investment model contingency provisions.

Skills and experience

• Experience in project or programme risk management on a large-scale, complex project.
• Ability to perform qualitative and quantitative risk analyses for business decisions.
• Ability to build cost, schedule, and risk models in appropriate applications.
• Ability to explain risk concepts clearly and develop and implement mitigation actions.
• Strong written, text-based, verbal communication, and influencing skills.
• Knowledge of project and programme risk management and project controls, particularly for major programmes.
• Risk management qualification such as IRM or APM.

Workplace and inclusion

• HS2 describes flexible working and supports workplace adjustments, staff networks, and professional development.
• The supplied description does not specify a required onsite, hybrid, or remote work arrangement.

Equality and inclusion