Turner & Townsend
Associate Director - Risk Management
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Associate Director - Risk Management
Senior Project Risk Management Professional / Director – Scotland Infrastructure Risk Team
Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.
Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy, and natural resources, we transform together, delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Through partnership, we tackle challenges, turning complexity into success on the world’s most impactful projects.
Our capabilities span programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero, and digital solutions.
We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm. Turner & Townsend and CBRE collaborate to provide clients with premier programme, project, and cost management across global markets.
For more information, visit: www.turnerandtownsend.com
About the Role
We invite a Senior Project Risk Management Professional/Director to join our Scotland Infrastructure Risk team, which supports some of the UK’s most high-profile infrastructure projects, programmes, and clients. This role involves:
- Actively developing, managing, and leading Scotland’s Risk Management function
- Providing strategic input to our national Risk Management community
The Opportunity
Our award-winning Risk Management team is driven by innovation, client outcome focus, and operational excellence. With over 100 risk professionals nationally, this role offers:
- The chance to leverage long-standing expertise across sectors, specialisms, and client bases
- A culture of mentorship and growth, supported by career pathways
- Opportunity to innovate within an expansive Controls and Performance Network and influence strategy
You’ll work closely with clients and Turner & Townsend teams, taking ownership of engagements and exceeding stakeholder expectations. At this critical moment, you’ll shape a junior risk function in Scotland, mentor talent, and build a high-performing risk capability—playing a key role in advancing risk management across the country.
Key Responsibilities
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
Lead
- Manage and delegate activities of the Risk Management team across complex projects/programmes.
- Oversee communication with Senior Management / Stakeholders, providing project updates.
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Accountable For
- Brief the team on project scope to ensure clear roles and responsibilities.
- Develop and maintain leadership relationships with interfacing project disciplines.
- Conduct line management duties, including career development and performance management.
Drive
- Continuous Improvement in risk management processes, enhancing client efficiencies and benefits.
- Implement and embed process refinements company-wide, including project discipline alignment.
Promote
- Highlight the value of Risk Management within project and programme teams.
Provide
- Subject Matter Expertise in risk principles, methodologies, and tools.
- Deep analytical expertise (e.g. QCRA, QSRA) for senior stakeholders, supporting informed decision-making.
- Training, coaching and mentorship for clients and junior teams on risk processes.
Support
- Direct oversight of the risk team and associated operational activities.
- Turner & Townsend recruitment activities to expand the project controls capability.
- National/regional Risk Management sites (including relevant Communities of Practice).
Required Skills & Behaviours
This role demands:
- Strategic foresight: Anticipating future challenges and opportunities to align with client strategic objectives.
- Performance-driven culture: Strong standards, setting leadership expectations for self and team.
- Collaborative mindset: Proactively fostering teamwork, ‘One Business’ culture, and cross-functional relationships.
- Influential leadership: Deepening industry knowledge to embed Turner & Townsend’s purpose and advance a better world.
- Mentorship focus: Empowering team growth, encouraging managers to focus on individual development.
- Continuous learning: Staying updated on industry trends and participating in professional growth.
- Inclusive culture: Prioritising team well-being, behaviour rigor, and a psychologically safe environment.
- Operational readiness: Ability to support business management needs as they arise.
This role requires access to client sites across the UK, including the ability to secure/hold a UK driving licence, or be open to travel.
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Experience & Qualifications
The ideal candidate is distinguished by:
- Essential
- Industry-aligned experience in Risk Management on complex projects/programmes.
- Proven cross-disciplinary collaboration (interfacing with others such as cost, scheduling, procurement).
- Successful track record of leading risk teams, including both senior oversight and process scalability.
- Proficiency in multiple risk standards/approaches (e.g., ISO31000, APM, Orange Book, IPA), quantitative analysis, and risk tools (e.g., Safran, @Risk, PRA) alongside qualitative frameworks.
- Desirable
- Exposure to transformation projects, alongside delivery.
- Familiarity with NEC contracts.
- Security Clearance eligibility (preferred).
Benefits
- Contribute to world-changing infrastructure, making a tangible impact on society.
- Employee-led partnerships: shape projects alongside prestigious clients in global markets.
- Competitive total remuneration package, aligned with career experience and expertise.
- Commitment to diversity, inclusion, and well-being within a forward-thinking environment.
About Turner & Townsend
We are an equal opportunity employer, celebrating diversity and inclusion in all its forms. We strive to ensure our workplace represents and values teams from all sectors of society—active at every career stage.
For further details, visit: www.turnerandtownsend.com
Important Note
It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fees in connection with recruitment initiatives. Neither Turner & Townsend or affiliated agencies may seek or accept candidate payment at any stage. Where requested, unofficial genuine CVs submitted will be treated as internal assets.
Un solicited CVs are the sole property of Turner & Townsend. For approval to submit candidates, agencies must enter formal written agreements with Turner & Townsend’s Recruitment Team.
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