Senior Risk Manager

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. 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. Our values shape the way we consult and define the people we want to join us on our journey, they are:

• Safety first - Going home safe and well
• Client focus - Deliver on our promise
• Integrity - Always do the right thing
• Create opportunity - For our people to excel

Mace is tendering for the opportunity to be the technical support partner for a defence client for an extensive recapitalisation programme of defence real estate and infrastructure on the south coast of England. By developing and maturing a series of plans into a coherent programme, the team will work with the client to redefine the pathway that addresses the challenges of an aging estate and the scale of the task, presenting options to resolve these. The project will seek to contribute towards net zero carbon aspirations. This role will be responsible for the implementation and delivery of a comprehensive range of risk services to support this commission. You will be a UK national, with Security Cleared (SC) clearance.

You'll be responsible for:

• Undertake Risk management performance.
• Create/design an effective risk management framework(s)/strategy(s).
• Manage and direct the client, consultants, contractors, and the project team on all risk management matters.
• Advise and build strong professional relationships with client organisations.
• Act as the programme’s risk management subject matter expert.
• Lead and direct the delivery of quantitative risk analysis (cost and time).
• Advise on the adequacy of contingency as part of the regular reporting cycle as required.
• Ensure all activities/operations are carried out in line with Mace control centre, client requirements and prevailing legislation.
• Provide line management to more junior risk managers and other project/programme staff as required (as applicable).
• Utilise expertise to mentor and assist the personal and career development of junior members of risk team (as applicable).
• Innovate and align with industry best practice to ensure continued service excellence.
• Lead the delivery of a high performing risk team on the assigned commission.
• Support the hub risk lead with resourcing and recruitment for the assigned commission.

Work collaboratively towards the common goal of net zero carbon transition and share responsibility for the proactive identification and management of the associated carbon emissions and reductions during the delivery of work.

You’ll need to have:

• Experience of effective risk leadership on significant construction projects.
• Experience of setting up effective risk management/assurance frameworks/strategies.
• 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 planning tools (e.g. Programme P6, Astra, MS project).
• Practical knowledge of Power BI and other reporting suite tools.
• Strong understanding of construction projects, decencies and interfaces within the project lifecycle.
• Domain knowledge of providing risk leadership in defence with nuclear awareness.
• 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.
• Strong attention to detail and the ability to ‘deep dive’ into topics.
• Ability to solve challenging problems.
• Leads by example and champions Mace behaviours.
• Knowledge of how to set a vision and direction for risk management.
• Strong 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 (as applicable).
• Effective leadership and influencing skills.
• Ability to manage challenging behaviours, relationships and still secure a positive outcome.
• Manage multiple competing priorities and secures 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'll also have:

• General awareness and some practical knowledge and application of risk/data analytics.
• Ability to create and deliver persuasive and engaging presentations.
• 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, or demonstrate that this is in progress.
• Actively engages with peers within professional bodies and other forum to maintain professional knowledge and work across industry to advance the profession.

Mace is an inclusive employer and welcomes interest from a diverse range of candidates. Even if you feel you do not fulfil all of the criteria, please apply as you may still be the best candidate for this role or another role within our organisation. We are also open to discussing part-time, flexible, and hybrid working options if suitable within the role.