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Risk Manager

Dartford
1 week ago
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Summary:
As a Risk Manager, you will play a pivotal role in implementing and supporting an integrated risk management framework across major capital programmes. Your responsibilities will include facilitating the identification, assessment, and prioritisation of threats, opportunities, and issues within sub-programmes. You will maintain visibility of threat/opportunity trigger points to enable effective risk cost profiling and timely drawdown of risk budgets. Utilising risk data, you will inform investment planning and assist in identifying appropriate management responses. Your role will involve monitoring overall risk exposure and assessing it against remaining risk budgets. You will work collaboratively with contractors to evaluate risks held by them and their views on client-held risks impacting them. Producing timely risk reports to communicate threat and opportunity status will be crucial. You will conduct quantitative risk assessments (cost and schedule) to inform project contingency levels. Candidates should demonstrate competence with tools such as PRA, @risk, and Safran, and be familiar with web-based database tools like ARM, Predict, and Tableau.

Skills:
Quantitative risk assessment and analysis
Threat mitigation and opportunity exploitation
Risk workshop facilitation
Strong numerical and analytical skills
Excellent communication and presentation skills
Proactive risk management
Ability to work collaboratively with contractors
Strategic investment planning
Competence with risk management tools
Familiarity with web-based database tools

Software/Tools:
PRA (Primavera Risk Analysis)
@Risk
Safran
ARM (Active Risk Manager)
Predict
Tableau

Certifications & Standards:
APM (Association for Project Management) Risk Certified
IRM (Institute of Risk Management) Certification

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