Risk Lead / Senior Risk Manager London, England
Arcadis
Full Time
London, England
57049 - 74037 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
At Arcadis we focus on attracting, retaining and developing people who share our passion and commitment to improve quality of life. In return we offer you the opportunity to transform your world and the world around you, that could be through client work, upskilling yourself, championing equality and inclusion or getting involved in charity work, to name just a few. Our people value different perspectives, they care about the sustainability of our planet and dare to shape the future.
One of our core values is ‘people first’, and supported by our Lovinklaan foundation, we invest in you for the long term, to ensure you reach your full potential. You’ll have the opportunity to own your career and work on industry-defining projects, finding solutions to real challenges that make a difference to people’s lives. You’re encouraged to have a growth mindset and are given the space to develop personally and professionally, building a flexible career that works for you.
Role description:
We are looking for a self-starting and motivated Risk Lead who would develop and grow the risk capability within our UK Resilience GBA Project and Programme Management job family. Responsible for updating and evolving our risk standard operating procedures, value propositions and service offers whilst building our internal capability.
The main purpose of the role is to:
- Work closely with and provide support to the Project and Programme Management UK Service Leader in development of risk management service capability.
- Work as a key capability lead within the project controls community, supporting the integration of controls disciplines across our projects and programmes
- Work with project teams to implement effective risk management processes, procedures and best practice into their projects
- Provide risk management consultancy services
- Provide support to risk managers and project teams with risk analysis, quality assurance and drafting of reports and risk outputs
- Support the growth of our risk capability through recruitment and onboarding of new resources
- Act as a technical expert within Resilience, providing subject matter input on pursuits and to project team members in line with project or programme objectives.
Role accountabilities:
- Deliver risk management services to clients in compliance with client governance, processes and objectives.
- Undertake day-to-day risk management activities including identification, assessment, management, review and reporting of risks and opportunities.
- Produce periodic risk reporting which may include profiled risk expenditure, impacted risk / contingency drawdown and risk exposure changes.
- Develop Quantitative Risk Analysis including Cost, Schedule and integrated Cost and Schedule analyses, to enable robust forecasting and tracking of risk exposure.
- Use knowledge and experience to ensure identification and management of all significant risks to achievement of project objectives.
- Deliver discrete risk interventions and embedded risk management services.
- Act as an ambassador for risk management, coaching others in the requirements, processes and benefits of risk management.
Qualifications & Experience:
Essential:
- Desire to work towards relevant professional certification, such as APM Risk Certificate, IRM Certificate
- Experience in the construction or infrastructure sectors.
- Experience in the application of Quantitative Risk Analysis (QRA) techniques and tools, for example: @Risk, Primavera Risk Analysis (previously Pertmaster), Safran including the analysis of complex logic-linked cost-loaded schedules.
- Knowledge of Enterprise Risk Management tools, for example, Active Risk Manager (ARM), Predict! and Xactium.
- Understanding of construction contracts and the relationship between risk management and controls/management functions including: project management, change control, planning & scheduling, cost & commercial management and reporting.
- Evidence of previous experience in definition and delivery of risk management plans within projects.
- Strong communication, interpersonal and facilitation skills.
- Collaborative working style and consulting behaviours.
- A logical approach and ability to think through complex issues to co-ordinate multi-faceted aspects of projects
- Self-motivated and proactive, with the ability to work independently
Desirable:
- Membership of a professional body (e.g. APM, IRM)
- Risk Management qualification, for example IRM International Certificate, APM Risk Certificate, or Axelos M_o_R
- An understanding of planning techniques and tools, including P6 and Microsoft Project.
- Awareness of Value Management processes and techniques.
- Experience delivering risk management at Programme or Strategic levels.
- Experience of working in a client environment.
- Experience in application of a variety of contract forms.
- Experience in working for a large consultancy business
Why Become an Arcadian?
Our work with clients has a direct impact on people’s lives and on the planet. We make moving, living and belonging in cities safer, more resilient and more sustainable. By partnering with our clients as responsible custodians of our earth's resources, we can create a sustainable planet.
We continue to think of new ways to make positive impacts and create better experiences for people; data driven and digital solutions have become part of the Arcadis DNA. Working together with clients and using techniques like design thinking, we can get to the heart of our clients’ most pressing challenges and work together to solve them.
As a global business, we have committed to support five of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals to ensure that our projects contribute to a better and more sustainable future for all. But it’s not just the work that we do on client projects that benefits communities and our planet. As a global business, we are committed to making a positive impact to society by supporting local communities where we operate.
To help protect our planet, we monitor and measure non-financial information to inform business decisions and reduce our own environmental impact as part of our commitment to be net zero carbon as a global company by 2035.
Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging:
We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.
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Arcadis
https://careers.arcadis.com/locations/uk
London, United Kingdom
Peter Oosterveer
$2 to $5 billion (USD)
1001 to 5000 Employees
Company - Public
Construction
1888
