Associate Director - Risk - Nuclear New Build (Sizewell C)

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At Mace, our purpose is to redefine the boundaries of ambition. We believe in creating places that are responsible, bringing transformative impact to our people, communities and societies across the globe. To learn more about our purpose, culture, and priorities, visit our strategy site.

Within our consult business, we harness our unique combination of leading-edge practical expertise and project delivery consultancy to unlock the potential in every project.

Leads the implementation and delivery of a comprehensive range of risk services to support commissions and provide line management leadership and guidance for others within the PMO and planning centre of excellence and the wider Mace business as required.

You will be responsible for:

• Risk management performance on assigned commission(s).
• Creating/designing effective risk management framework(s)/strategy(s).
• Managing and directing clients, consultants, contractors, project team on all risk management matters.
• Advising and building strong professional relationships with client organisations.
• Acting as the risk management subject matter expert on assigned project(s)/programme(s)/portfolio(s).
• Leading and directing the delivery of quantitative risk analysis (cost and time).
• Advising on the adequacy of contingency as part of the regular reporting cycle as required.
• Ensuring all activities/operations are carried out in line with Mace control centre, client requirements and prevailing legislation.
• Providing line management to more junior risk managers and other project/programme staff as required.
• Utilising expertise to mentor and assist the personal and career development of junior members of the risk team.
• Innovating and aligning with industry best practice to ensure continued service excellence.
• Leading the delivery of a high performing risk team on the assigned commission.
• Supporting the hub risk lead with resourcing and recruitment for the assigned commission.
• Working collaboratively towards the common goal of net zero carbon transition and sharing responsibility for the proactive identification and management of the associated carbon emissions and reductions during the delivery of work.

Note: This role will require you to work in our London office 3 days per week.

You will need to have:

• Significant experience of effective risk leadership on significant construction projects.
• Significant experience of setting up effective risk management/assurance frameworks/strategies.
• Expert knowledge of risk tools, techniques and software (e.g., active risk manager, riskHive, @risk, Primavera Risk Analyser).
• Ability to manage activities with significant uncertainty of solution or outcome.
• Comprehensive knowledge of planning tools (e.g. Programme P6, Astra, MS project).
• Practical knowledge of Power BI and other reporting suite tools.
• Strong understanding of construction projects, dependencies and interfaces within the project lifecycle.
• Deep domain knowledge of providing risk leadership in multiple sectors (e.g. rail, highways, nuclear, public sector, hospitals).
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to form working relationships.
• Ability to collaborate with and influence others.
• Proven ability to articulate complex information and ideas for a non-technical audience.
• Manages, influences and negotiates with senior stakeholders (up to C-Suite).
• Strong attention to detail and the ability to 'deep dive' into topics.
• Ability to solve challenging problems.
• Leads by example and champions Mace behaviours.
• Commercial acumen in relation to business development and bids/winning work.
• Expertise in setting a vision and direction for risk management within their portfolio(s).
• Advanced communication and engagement skills.
• Develops internal connections, working in collaboration with stakeholders, identifying and analysing business risks.
• Builds and leads a high performing team, identifying, developing and coaching talented individuals.
• Effective leadership and influencing skills.
• Ability to manage challenging behaviours, relationships and still secure a positive outcome.
• Manage multiple competing priorities and secure positive outcome(s).
• Resilient/robust in the face of challenging situations, clients, personalities.
• Self-awareness - good knowledge of own weaknesses and when to ask for help.
• Self-help - knows when to escalate something and when to work it out themselves.
• Flexible, pragmatic and adaptable but also knows when to fight their corner.

You will also have:

• General awareness and some practical knowledge and application of risk/data analytics.
• Experience of working with very high political and cultural acuity.
• Creating and delivering persuasive and engaging presentations to a wide range of audiences in our industry - client side as well as consultancy.
• Relevant university degree (e.g. risk management, engineering) or equivalent.
• Chartered (or equivalent) membership of relevant professional institution(s) e.g. Association of Project Managers/Institute of Risk Management.
• Actively engages with peers outside Mace within professional bodies and other forums to maintain professional knowledge and work across the industry to advance the profession.

For this role, you must have evidence of right to work in the UK. As a project, we do not discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.