Associate Risk Manager

Responsibilities

• As an Associate Risk Manager your role will lead risk management activities at strategic, programme or project level across multiple clients. You will take ownership of key accounts and influence how we deliver excellence in commercial outcomes. You will mentor and guide more junior staff, drive internal initiatives and play an active role in building the team’s profile, internally and externally.

The key responsibilities of the role will include

• Develop, implement and manage appropriate risk management procedures and processes for clients
• Liaise, engage and communicate with all relevant key stakeholders including senior level management in the risk management process
• Lead and develop teams in best practices ensuring a pro-active risk management culture is established. This includes being a go-to contact for any risk related matters and actively promote the awareness, provide training and application of risk management across organisations (internally and externally)
• Present and lead confidently in front of client teams in workshops and meetings
• Ensuring that high quality risk information is obtained and maintained in dedicated risk management platforms that meet audit and compliance requirements
• Work with project teams to produce QRAs (QCRA and QSRA) and use specialist software for QRA risk modelling and produce detailed report
• Analyse large volumes of data to identify patterns, trends and potential risks and be able to escalate accordingly
• Develop and produce relevant reporting of risk to stakeholders that supports key decision making
• Regularly update client on risk status highlighting any issues that may impact cost or timelines.
• Provide unique risk management insights across client projects including emerging risks
• Actively contribute to the upskilling of the team through knowledge sharing, provide training sessions and technical peer reviews
• Support resource planning and delivery oversight across multiple commissions
• Play a leading role in bids and proposals – shaping win themes, writing content and participating in presentations
• Contribute to service development initiatives including best practice frameworks, templates, toolkits and delivery models
• Represent the Risk Management service line at events, conferences or thought leadership forums
• Bring external market insight and policy developments into project delivery and service improvement

Requirements

• The ideal Risk Manager for this role is someone with an in depth understanding of risk management and quantitative risk management and its place within the project structure. You will be a forward thinking induvial who drives collaboration and communication both inside and outside of the business. You will have experience in client management and have an appetite to keep learning and maintain your risk management skillset.

Skills, Experience & Personal Qualities

• Experience working on large complex engineering project in a risk management role, ideally within the nuclear, energy or utility sectors.
• Excellent understanding on the principles of schedule management, estimating and cost management
• Strong user of the Microsoft Office suite
• Proven ability to build and manage client relationships at senior level
• Evidence experiences in client presentation
• Ability to take initiative and pro-actively engage and lead teams

Experience in mentoring, supporting and developing junior colleagues

• Strong written, verbal, listening and presentation skills and able to deliver high quality work in challenging timeframes
• Strategic thinker with a commercial mindset, pro-active approach and problem-solving skills
• Excellent leadership skills with a collaborative approach and able to provide professional guidance, advise and training to others
• delivery of excellent client service
• A keen interest and able to demonstrate an understanding of market issues, events and associated emerging risks and how they relate to projects

Risk Management and Leadership

Team Leadership and Development

Mentor and develop Risk Analysts and Risk Managers – offering career guidance and feedback

About You

Degree qualified – preferably with a mathematics or construction related discipline

Chartered or specialist risk qualification e.g. IRM Cert and membership to a risk professional body such as IRM, APM

Experience in PMO within risk and control or project management with demonstrable experience in managing risk registers, facilitating risk workshops, supporting qualitative and quantitative risk analysis, and reporting risk exposure across complex projects.

Excellent data analysis and technical skills and has extensive experience in using risk management software such as Safran, ARM, Acumen and producing QRAs (QCRA and QSRA)

Previous experience within a consultancy environment desirable

Experience working in a client focused environment with a personal commitment to the

Excellent Business Development skills

• Demonstratable evidence of growing and establishing a network in the risk management industry
• Positive attitude with a willingness to get involved, and authentic in the workplace.

About Us

Collaboration, innovation, and support are at the core of everything we do. As an Executive Cost Consultant, you will be joining a diverse team led by one of G&T’s equity partners and a board member. Our partner-led model allows us to adopt bespoke approaches both in the service we offer to clients and in the development opportunities we offer our people. Within your team you will be given clear direction and positive encouragement at every turn, whilst our commitment to your career development and lifelong learning programmes ensures you have the support, as well as the tools to thrive.

Forward thinking and future focused, we champion social mobility, ethical governance, equality and diversity, creating an inclusive environment where everyone’s unique talents and experiences are valued. Our ESG goals are at the forefront of our business plan, and we are proud to have created social value worth over £12m+ since 2021. Our initiatives include the G&T ESG Committee, dedicated to increasing opportunities and removing barriers for social mobility and equality within the firm, as well as our Next Gen programme which focuses on nurturing the next generation in the industry. Our commitment to realising a more sustainable future is witnessed not only through helping our clients meet their own next zero carbon aspirations but also by reaching our own, with an aim for our firm to be net zero by 2030. We are a business with purpose- to find out more about our ESG goals and how we are achieving them,

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