Associate Director - Risk Lead in London

Associate Director - Risk Lead in London

London Full-Time 55000 - 65000 £ / year (est.) No working from home possible
Mace

At a Glance

  • Tasks: Lead risk management for civil works, ensuring project success through proactive controls.
  • Company: Join a leading project management team focused on excellence and innovation.
  • Benefits: Competitive salary, career growth, and opportunities to make an impact.
  • Other info: Dynamic environment with opportunities to network and share knowledge.
  • Why this job: Be at the forefront of risk management in a groundbreaking project.
  • Qualifications: Strong leadership, technical skills, and experience in project controls required.

The predicted salary is between 55000 - 65000 £ per year.

The project

SZC Project Controls serves as a centre of excellence, managing and strategically using delivery performance management information.

Our team will enable successful delivery of SZC Project through proactive Project Controls that drive forward-looking solutions to continuously improve performance.

As the Civil Works Programme Risk Lead, you will be working within the Project Management Office (PMO) and the Delivery Programmes.

The post holder will support the functional ownership for all PMO risk processes within the civil works programme (CWP).

This entails supporting the ownership, deployment, and continuous improvement of all the PMO risk process elements of the project while ensuring we operate and deliver controls within the SZC governance structure, organisation and delivery model.

They will ensure PMO risk activities within CWP are being carried out efficiently in accordance with calendars and deadlines established on SZC.

They will be proactive in their approach to driving innovation which will support Project Controls activities on SZC being “Digital by Default”.

  • You’ll Be Responsible For
  • Directing and providing risk management services within the CWP to align with PMO processes.
  • Managing a small team of Risk Managers.
  • Working with the Alliance Team on their Risk Management obligations.
  • Supporting the Head of Delivery Risk with providing inputs into project-wide risk activities such as EAC update, ERR preparation, Integrated-QRA development etc.
  • Producing progress reporting for the CWP including monthly risk dashboard updates, forecast to complete, variance identification, delivery process insights and opportunities for improvement.
  • Helping ensure SZC is viewed by the Construction Industry as an exemplar in risk management through knowledge sharing, networking and delivering presentations to the sector.
  • You’ll Need To Have
  • Strong leadership capabilities, motivational skills, delegation, team management and team membership, as well as effective collaboration and peer-to-peer relationship-building skills.
  • Strong engagement skills; able to independently engage teams of varying size and seniority, at all points in delivery life cycle/supply chain, as well as breadth of corporate teams/professionals.
  • Ability to extract valuable and relevant insights from risk/project controls/delivery processes, and ability to explain them at all levels, for all audiences.
  • Well-developed facilitation skills; able to independently facilitate complex/important workshops for all levels within programme.
  • Strong technical skills; able to independently deliver large/complex QRAs, spanning Cost QRAs, Schedule QRAs, and Integrated QRAs, as well as good enterprise risk management skills.
  • Linked capability to integrate/support breadth of project controls/project delivery/business support processes (e. g. Finance).
  • Very strong mitigation‑related skills underpinned by strong project and programme management and broader project controls experience.
  • In particular, strong ability to understand breadth of project and construction processes, how they drive risk exposure, and understanding of range of mitigation solutions to support.
  • Strong in‑depth relevant sector experience/breadth of broader sector experience.
  • Strong client/contractor/consultancy/government experience.
  • Strong major project/corporate experience.
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Contact Details:

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We think you need these skills to ace Associate Director - Risk Lead in London

Risk Management
Project Management
Team Leadership
Collaboration Skills
Engagement Skills
Facilitation Skills
Quantitative Risk Analysis (QRA)