The Senior Risk Manager will drive excellence in risk management activities and demonstrate significant expertise in this area, ensuring provision of timely and high-quality information, guidance and specialist advice on risk management across the Programmes. The role holder will ensure processes are in place, adhered to and continuously improved to ensure that they are practical, embedded and connected to all key stakeholders.
Team Management
- Develop and maintain a detailed resourcing plan for the delivery of risk management on the projects through the Risk Leads
- Provide support to the Risk Leads in their day to day delivery functions
- Be responsible for reporting on the performance of the projects under their remit
- Work with the Programme Director to address any issues that arise in the course of the delivery of the projects
Functional Requirements, Standards & Performance
- Lead and manage the implementation of consistent risk management tools and techniques, processes and standards, in line with the Contracting Entity’s policies and procedures and industry best practice and integrating these within the wider programme controls framework across Infrastructure.
- Apply advanced knowledge in the technical/professional discipline of risk management for the analysis and resolution of issues within a projects and programmes framework, including benchmarking against best practice and implementing innovative solutions.
- Work with delivery teams to understand the risk profiles of the programmes, to develop robust risk management, mitigation and contingency strategies, and to escalate significant risks using agreed governance mechanisms as appropriate.
- Develop a set of KPIs in relation to risk performance across Programmes and implement these effectively.
Risk Management Activities
- Constantly maintain corporate risk management systems - ensuring feeder registers are updated and translated into required system.
- Responsible for supporting programme teams in carrying out Quantified Risk Assessments (QRA) and assessing risk apportionment in commercial contracts and procurements relating to programme delivery.
- Develop a risk reporting platform to support the management reporting across Programmes and tracking of the status of mitigation actions.
- Lead risk workshops, risk assessment processes and risk register reviews in conjunction with key stakeholders.
- Drive the continuous improvement of risk management processes across the Programmes by evaluating and challenging the organisation’s management of risk & recording and monitoring for effectiveness to ensure fit-for- purpose risk management structures and systems are in place to meet good standards and business needs.
Working within a multi-disciplinary team & managing stakeholders
- Lead a team of risk managers who directly support project delivery to establish a unified and high standard of quality output.
- Contribute to driving and leading a positive safety culture within Infrastructure programmes and ensuring your team is invested in managing and improving HSE performance through the management of risk.
- Contribute to the continuous drive towards a high-performance culture within the Programme Controls team.
- Promote and participate in knowledge share across the organisation to raise awareness of the importance of risk management and generate a culture of continuous learning.
Skills:
- Strong leadership and influencing skills to manage and motivate teams in and outside of Infrastructure to embed quality management values and culture
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Methodical, analytical and focused approach to work procedures
- Ability to apply complex risk measurement and management techniques such as use of Monte-Carlo analysis/risk profiling
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills combined with an ability to influence across all levels.
- Must have excellent administrative, coordination, scheduling, record keeping and database skills
- Proactive approach to problem-solving and strong attention to detail.