Risk Manager in Essex, Stansted Mountfitchet

Location: Stansted (3 days per week onsite)

Rate: £410.96 per day

Contract: Inside IR35

Duration: August 2026 - May 2027

Hours: 40 hours per week

Clearance: BPSS required, with the potential requirement for CTC and/or an Airside Pass

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Risk Manager to join a major transformation programme within a complex infrastructure environment. Working as part of a dedicated Programme Risk Team, you will play a key role in supporting the delivery of effective risk management across a large-scale transformation programme. The successful candidate will help promote a proactive risk culture, support governance and assurance activities, facilitate risk workshops, and contribute to programme-level decision-making through high-quality analysis and reporting.

This role offers the opportunity to work on a significant programme of change, collaborating with project teams and senior stakeholders to ensure risks are effectively identified, assessed, managed, and communicated.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the delivery of risk management activities across the transformation programme.
• Promote a positive and proactive risk management culture across projects and programme teams.
• Ensure risk management processes are applied consistently and effectively.
• Facilitate project and programme risk workshops, engaging with stakeholders across multiple workstreams.
• Support the identification, assessment, and mitigation of project and programme risks.
• Maintain programme risk registers and databases, ensuring data quality and accuracy.
• Contribute to risk governance, assurance, and reporting activities.
• Support the development and delivery of risk management training and onboarding materials.
• Assist with qualitative and quantitative risk analysis activities.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of risk management tools, processes, and reporting.

Key Deliverables

• Support the delivery of monthly project-level risk workshops.
• Coordinate and contribute to programme-level risk reviews.
• Maintain risk records and ensure actions are tracked and updated.
• Support quantitative cost and schedule risk analysis activities.
• Provide input into monthly project and programme risk reports.
• Attend governance and progress review meetings to support risk reporting and assurance.
• Support risk assessments relating to programme changes and emerging risks.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Experience supporting risk management, project controls, or programme controls within complex projects or programmes.
• Experience working within infrastructure, transportation, aviation, energy, construction, or other large-scale delivery environments.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels.
• Experience facilitating workshops and coordinating risk management activities.
• Strong organisational skills and ability to manage competing priorities.
• Ability to work independently while contributing effectively within a team environment.

Risk Management Knowledge

• Working knowledge of risk management principles aligned to recognised frameworks such as ISO 31000, APM, and IRM.
• Experience in supporting risk management processes, qualitative risk assessment, risk workshop facilitation, risk reporting and governance, and risk mitigation planning.
• Exposure to quantitative risk analysis techniques would be advantageous.

Desirable Skills & Qualifications

• Degree, diploma, or equivalent professional experience.
• APM, risk management, project controls, or related qualification.
• Experience with risk management tools such as riskHive, PRA, Safran, ARM, and Xactium.
• Understanding of how risk integrates with project controls, cost management, and scheduling.
• Knowledge of value management principles.

Personal Attributes

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong analytical thinking and attention to detail.
• A proactive and solutions-focused approach.
• Confidence working with stakeholders across complex programme environments.
• Strong teamwork and relationship-building skills.
• The ability to work effectively under pressure and meet demanding deadlines.

Additional Information

• Hybrid working model with 3 days per week onsite in Stansted.
• Travel to and from Stansted is required.
• Initial vetting will be BPSS, with potential progression to CTC and/or Airside Pass requirements.
• Immediate start available for the right candidate.

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