Senior Risk Manager - Interface

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Lead risk management strategy, frameworks, and performance across assigned commissions.
• Advise clients, teams, and stakeholders and build trusted working relationships.
• Facilitate workshops, reporting, and quantitative risk analysis to manage exposure and contingency.
• Lead, mentor, and resource teams; support integrated PMO, planning, and net-zero outcomes.
• Champion safety, wellbeing, inclusivity, and responsible delivery; promote quality planning and stakeholder collaboration.
• Supervise change and commercial performance, lead teams to KPIs, and share best practice.
• Support business development, bids, and winning work.

Experience and knowledge

• Demonstrated risk leadership on complex construction projects and experience establishing risk management or assurance frameworks.
• Extensive experience or equivalent delivering project risk management services on major construction projects.
• Knowledge of risk tools and software, including examples Active Risk Manager, riskHive, @RISK, and Primavera Risk Analyser.
• Practical experience with risk and data analytics, Power BI, and reporting tools; basic knowledge of interfacing planning tools such as Astra, P6, or MS Project.
• Understanding of construction project dependencies and lifecycle interfaces; deep risk expertise in at least one sector such as rail, highways, nuclear, public sector, or hospitals.
• Experience working client-side and in consultancy.

Qualifications

• Relevant university degree, such as risk management or engineering, or equivalent.
• Chartered or equivalent membership of a relevant professional institution, such as the Association for Project Management or Institute of Risk Management.

Professional skills

• Strong interpersonal, collaboration, influencing, communication, and presentation skills, including communicating complex ideas to non-technical audiences.
• Able to manage uncertainty, competing priorities, pressure, challenging relationships, and senior stakeholders.
• Commercial awareness and business development skills.

Mace values

Work arrangement

• The posting is tagged on-site; part-time, flexible, or hybrid options may be discussed if suitable for the role.