Senior Risk Business Partner – Capital Delivery

Job Title: Senior Risk Business Partner – Capital Delivery
Location: Falmer, Hybrid Working
Salary: Competitive
Job Overview
Are you an experienced Senior Risk Business Partner with the ability to transform projects and organisations through strategic risk management? We are seeking a Senior Risk Business Partner to join our dynamic Capital Delivery team. In this role, you will be a trusted advisor to various teams, guiding risk management, controls, and commercial initiatives. You will work closely with multi-disciplinary teams to ensure that risks are understood and controlled effectively, supporting business outcomes and driving the success of our strategic goals.
As a Senior Risk Business Partner, you will lead risk management initiatives, coach teams, and continuously enhance the risk culture across Capital Delivery. Your leadership will play a crucial role in improving risk processes, simplifying controls, and aligning our operations with business objectives.
Responsibilities will include:

• Act as a subject matter expert and trusted advisor within a multi-disciplinary team, working alongside leadership to develop and implement high standards to optimise business operations.
  
• Provide ongoing risk management advice to identify, assess, and control risks, ensuring sound business decisions are made to achieve strategic objectives.
  
• Lead and guide the application of framework requirements to align risk strategies with business goals, supporting risk forums and evaluating control environments.
  
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives, including enhancing existing processes and controls to ensure compliance with business standards and policies while simplifying procedures.
  
• Take an active role in driving Quality Risk Assessment and fostering greater commercial acumen across project teams.
  
• Lead risk workshops, engaging stakeholders across design, construction, commercial, and management teams to ensure risks are managed appropriately and solutions are implemented effectively.
  
• Develop scalable risk management solutions, including best practices, tools, and processes that will have a long-term impact on risk management culture and performance.
  About You
  
• Proven experience as a Senior Risk Business Partner, with a track record of improving organisations and projects through strategic risk management.
  
• Demonstrable experience managing risk at the project, programme, and portfolio level, particularly within the construction industry.
  
• Familiarity with risk modelling systems both Quantitative Schedule Risk Analysis (QSRA) and Quantitative Cost risk Analysis (QCRA).
  
• Expertise in NEC contracts (NEC4) and contractual sensitivities.
  
• Strong experience chairing risk workshops and engaging with diverse stakeholders to drive risk management outcomes.
  
• Ability to develop and implement risk management systems, processes, and reporting frameworks, ensuring alignment with best practices.
  
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels, from site teams to the boardroom.
  
• A proven leader who can coach and develop people and teams, driving cultural change and enhancing performance.
  
• Ability to critically assess information, challenge assumptions, and ensure robust risk management strategies.
  
• A recognised risk management qualification (e.g., AIRMIC, IRM) is highly desirable.
  Package
  • Company and performance-related bonus
  • Generous pension up to 11% company contribution
  • 25 days annual leave
  • Life assurance equal to 4x salary
  • Salary sacrifice electric car scheme (after 6 months service)
  • Health Cash Plan
  • Full funded eye tests
  • Two paid volunteering days a year
  • Occupational health service
  • Discounts with over 800 popular retailers
  • Digital GP service
  • Study support may be available for job-related qualifications
  • Competitive maternity leave and flexible return to work options
  • Cycle to work scheme
  Does this opportunity excite you but you’re not 100% sure if you meet all the requirements for the role? Or are you concerned that ‘normal’ office hours aren’t possible given your personal circumstances? Whilst we can’t accommodate every flexible working request, we’ll try to find a practical solution. So why not engage with us and find out more about this role?
  Our customers are at the heart of everything we do, because delivering water for life is our core purpose. To achieve this, we need 24/7 support in place to resolve incidents quickly and efficiently. All our employees understand the importance of out-of-hours incident support – because when problems appear, fixing them is our top priority. That’s why our people join together and support when and however needed to make sure our customers get the service they deserve. Joining the Southern Water family means you’ll become part of our incident support team. During your interview, your manager will speak to you about any incident support rotas that apply to your position.
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  All applicants must be eligible to live and work in the UK. You will need to provide evidence of eligibility (e.g. a passport or long birth certificate and proof of NI) and current proof of address (dated within the last 3 months), will be required as part of the recruitment process. If you do not meet these criteria, your application will not be considered