Senior Risk Manager - Interface

The project

Responsibilities

• Champion safety, wellbeing, inclusivity, and responsible delivery across projects.
• Deliver projects through clear planning, quality systems, and stakeholder collaboration.
• Supervise change and commercial performance with integrity.
• Lead teams to achieve KPIs, share best practice, and develop capability.
• Lead risk management strategy, frameworks, and performance across assigned commissions.
• Advise clients, teams, and stakeholders and drive effective risk processes.
• Facilitate workshops, reporting, and quantitative risk analysis to manage exposure and contingency.
• Lead, mentor, and resource teams while supporting integrated PMO, planning, and net-zero outcomes.

Experience and expertise

• Experience leading risk on complex construction projects and establishing risk management or assurance frameworks and strategies.
• Comprehensive knowledge of risk tools and software, including examples such as Active Risk Manager, riskHive, @RISK, and Primavera Risk Analyser.
• Practical knowledge of risk/data analytics, Power BI, and reporting tools; basic knowledge of interfacing planning tools.
• Good understanding of construction projects, dependencies, and lifecycle interfaces.
• Deep risk leadership knowledge in one or more sectors, such as rail, highways, nuclear, public sector, or hospitals.
• Experience working client-side and in consultancy.

Qualifications and capabilities

• Extensive experience or equivalent delivering project risk management services on major construction projects.
• 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.
• Strong interpersonal, collaboration, influencing, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Able to manage uncertainty and multiple priorities, negotiate with senior stakeholders, and explain complex ideas to non-technical audiences.
• Commercial awareness, business development and bid skills, effective networking, presentation skills, attention to detail, resilience, flexibility, and adaptability.

Working options

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

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