Risk Manager

Overview

Oversee risk identification, assessment, mitigation and reporting for PMO projects

Key Responsibilities

• stakeholder engagement
• exposure analysis
• mitigation planning
• risk reporting
• risk monitoring
• risk facilitation

Tasks

-Stakeholder Engagement: Build strong relationships across project teams and functions to embed a proactive risk culture and ensure consistent application of risk management processes. -Exposure Analysis: Monitor and analyse overall risk exposure across projects, assessing alignment with remaining risk budgets, contingency levels, and delivery timelines. -Continuous Improvement: Contribute to the development and refinement of risk management frameworks, tools, and practices, promoting innovation and best practice across the PMO and wider business. -Mitigation Planning: Collaborate with project teams to develop measurable, actionable, and specific management responses. Evaluate post-mitigation positions to ensure residual risks are within acceptable thresholds. -Reporting: Produce and present high-quality, fit-for-purpose risk reports and dashboards that support effective communication, informed decision-making, and timely intervention by senior management. -Risk Monitoring: Maintain continuous visibility of risk trigger points and early warning indicators to enable accurate cost profiling, timely drawdown of risk budgets, and effective retirement or escalation of threats and opportunities. -Facilitation of Risk Processes: Lead and support the structured identification, assessment, and prioritisation of threats, opportunities, and issues across multiple projects, ensuring alignment with business objectives and stakeholder expectations.

Requirements

• risk certification
• tableau
• power bi
• workshop leadership
• stakeholder engagement
• quantitative risk

What You Bring

-Workshop Leadership: Proven experience in facilitating risk and scenario analysis workshops, engaging stakeholders at all levels to drive informed decision-making. -Data Tools & Systems: Demonstrate working knowledge of web-based risk and reporting platforms such as ARM, Xactium, Predict, Tableau, Power BI, ensuring data-driven insights and traceability of risk decisions. -IRM / APM Risk Certification (or working towards). -Comprehensive Knowledge of Risk Management: A strong understanding of integrated risk management principles and their application across portfolios, programmes, and projects, ensuring alignment with organisational objectives. -Analytical Expertise: Knowledge of both qualitative and quantitative risk assessment techniques, including probabilistic modelling and scenario planning (training will be provided where required). -Stakeholder Engagement: Skilled at building trust and credibility across multidisciplinary teams, with a collaborative and consultative working style. -Commercial Awareness: Understands the broader business context and the impact of risk decisions on project delivery, cost, and reputation. -Resilience and Adaptability: Comfortable working in fast-paced, dynamic environments, with the ability to manage competing priorities and adapt to change. -Strong Communication Skills: Able to communicate complex risk concepts clearly and confidently to a range of stakeholders, both verbally and in writing. -Data-Driven Approach: Familiarity with risk management tools and data visualisation platforms to provide clear, actionable insights. -Continuous Improvement Mindset: Commitment to developing and implementing best practices, driving efficiency, and fostering a culture of proactive risk management. -Demonstrated track record of delivering risk management solutions on complex, high-value projects and programmes. -Project experience within energy, renewables, defence, rail, or utilities sectors. -Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with a strong focus on stakeholder engagement and a commitment to driving continuous improvement. -Stakeholder Engagement: Strong interpersonal and communication skills to influence, challenge, and support project teams and senior leadership effectively. -Continuous Improvement Mindset: Passionate about improving processes, tools, and practices, and open to learning and development opportunities. -Quantitative Risk Assessment: Apply cost, schedule, and integrated risk analysis techniques to inform project contingency and time risk allowances. Familiarity with tools such as Safran, @Risk, PRA, or equivalent is highly desirable. -Analytical Mindset: Ability to think critically and systematically when assessing complex risk scenarios, with strong attention to detail and accuracy. -Project Controls Integration: A broad understanding of project controls methodology and its interaction with risk management, including cost, schedule, and performance considerations. -Strategic Thinking: Ability to develop proactive, innovative mitigation strategies and exploit opportunities to enhance project outcomes and deliver value.

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About Enisca Browne

-started as a small firm focused on delivering cutting-edge engineering solutions. -quickly became known for its ability to handle complex infrastructure and industrial projects. -With expertise across multiple sectors, it has successfully managed both large-scale construction and engineering ventures. -portfolio includes a wide range of projects from transport networks to energy plants, showcasing their versatility. -firm is deeply invested in technology, often utilizing the latest innovations to improve project efficiency and sustainability. -work spans multiple continents, with successful operations in both the public and private sectors. -built a reputation for completing projects on time, within budget, and to the highest standards of safety.

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