Head of Risk Mitigation and Management

Position: Head of Risk Mitigation and Management

Location: Brighton with hybrid working

Salary: £90-110k (neg DOE), car/allowance, bonus and excellent benefits package

Our Client: Is an integrated design and build solution provider operating in the water sector. They have over 1,000 staff working across eight regional centres, primarily supporting six long term water sector frameworks operating both on their own and increasingly in joint ventures and alliances.

The Role: Our client is looking to strengthen their Legal and Risk Team with a Risk Mitigation and Management Lead. Key to success at both the framework and project level is effective risk management. This is the ideal time to review, refresh, upgrade and implement changes to the way our client manages risk. You will design, implement and maintain a risk management framework.

Responsibilities:

1. Create a risk management strategy to be implemented at all levels of the organisation.
2. Develop and upkeep a corporate/framework risk register.
3. Produce and update project risk registers in PIM, the JV's risk management software, ensuring that users and stakeholders have full confidence in data in PIM.
4. Facilitate risk workshops to identify, evaluate and develop responses for the project and framework risk registers.
5. Develop timely, relevant and clear risk reports, including KRIs, for all members of the JV and Southern Water management.
6. Design and implement assurance activities to demonstrate effective management and mitigation of risk at the framework and project levels.

Key Objectives:

1. Framework risk register
2. Project risk registers
3. Monthly risk reports for all projects
4. Periodic, possibly quarterly, risk reports for JV's Senior Leadership Team.
5. Ongoing assurance to SLT that the risk management framework is operating as designed.

Experience:

Essential:

1. Degree level qualified with proven experience of working in a complex risk management project environment.
2. Strong analytical skills and the ability to produce easy to read insight across a range of stakeholders.
3. Ability to write and present compelling documents.
4. Experience working in a regulatory environment and leading business improvement.
5. Track record of assessing potential disruptors to mitigate risk.
6. Experience of operating at senior leader level.
7. Strong leadership, communication and negotiation skills.
8. You will be results, outcome and process focused with the ability to look for ways of improving results and processes.
9. You must understand risk management principles such as frameworks, efficiency gain and protocols.
10. In-depth understanding of risk management (PACED), commercial assurance, engineering contract management, different contract forms and BCP regulatory compliance.
11. Ability to distinguish between risk appetite, tolerance and capacity is required, as is explaining how risk management supports agility and innovation.
12. Understand risk management standards including ISO 31000.

Beneficial:

1. Understanding of business plans, AMP8 delivery programme and sector trends.
2. Experience of using a Risk Management Information System (RMIS).
3. Track record of using NEC suite of contracts and multi-disciplinary experience.
4. Understanding the role of internal audit and assurance models such as the Three Lines of Defence model.
5. An understanding of control effectiveness techniques.

Package includes:

1. A competitive salary
2. Hybrid Working (Jobs needs dependent)
3. Car/car allowance (Jobs needs dependent)
4. Bonus
5. 25 days holiday + Bank Holidays (with an additional 5 days available to buy)
6. Contribution Pension scheme
7. Life Assurance, Health Insurance, Private Medical Insurance
8. And many more benefits including - cycle to work scheme, discounts and savings Hub, Kids Pass etc

Key Words:

1. Risk Lead
2. Head of Risk Management
3. Head of Risk Mitigation
4. Risk Management
5. Risk Mitigation
6. Risk Register
7. Risk Reports
8. Risk Appetite
9. Risk Tolerance
10. Business Improvement
11. Contract Management
12. Contractual
13. Contracts
14. NEC
15. Legal
16. Business Continuity Plan
17. BCP
18. ISO 31000
19. Construction
20. Water Industry
21. Water Sector
22. Water Treatment
23. Clean Water
24. Wastewater
25. Waste Water
26. Sewage
27. Utilities
28. Framework Delivery
29. JV
30. NEC3
31. NEC4
32. Power Generation
33. Power Sector
34. Power Industry
35. Energy Industry
36. Renewables
37. Energy from Waste
38. Nuclear
39. Infrastructure
40. Highways
41. Rail