Risk Programme Manager

Description

• Lead the strategic evolution and governance of the Group’s ERM framework, ensuring it remains agile, integrated, and responsive to a dynamic risk landscape.
• Drive the integration of resilience principles into business and risk management practices to strengthen EirGrid’s ability to withstand and recover from disruptive events.
• Serve as a technical advisor to leadership and management, offering forward-looking insights on systemic risk trends, emerging threats, & enterprise mitigation strategies.
• Drive cross-functional collaboration to embed resilience and risk management into core business processes, infrastructure, and strategic initiatives.
• Deliver authoritative risk reporting to executive and board level governance bodies, translating multifaceted risk information into actionable strategic insights.
• Shape the EirGrid risk strategy and appetite in partnership with the Head of GRC, ensuring alignment with organisational strategy, objectives and planning.
• Champion a proactive risk culture through calculated communications, leadership and management engagement, and targeted capability-building initiatives.
• Lead an adept risk team, ensuring clarity of purpose, role definition, and delivery expectations while fostering a collaborative and high-performance culture.
• Oversee the design, governance, and assurance of business continuity and crisis management structures, ensuring alignment with evolving regulatory standards and industry leading practices.
• Champion enterprise-wide risk intelligence by embedding robust, consistent risk assessment methodologies and ensuring risk registers are well defined and leveraged.

Requirements

• Qualified to degree level and/or professional qualification in a relevant discipline.
• Skilled in stakeholder management and influencing at all levels, including Executive and Leadership level, while maintaining strong credibility and relationships.
• Strong analytical, communication and interpersonal skills.
• Experience in regulated environments or the energy sector is advantageous but not essential.
• Proven track record in designing, implementing and/or overseeing risk management and business resilience frameworks, programmes and processes.
• Over ten years of experience in risk management, including significant time in leadership or senior advisory roles.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance