Turner & Townsend
Enterprise Risk Management Director
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Enterprise Risk Management Director
Turner & Townsend: ERM Director – Job Description
About Turner & Townsend
Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries. We work collaboratively with real estate, infrastructure, energy, and natural resources clients to transform projects, delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Guided by our shared partnership approach, we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.
Our capabilities span:
- Programme and project management
- Cost, asset, and commercial management
- Controls and performance oversight
- Procurement and supply chain
- Net zero and digital solutions
Majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, Turner & Townsend and CBRE synergise to deliver premier programme, project, and cost management globally.
Please visit our website www.turnerandtownsend.com to learn more.
About the Role
The ERM Director plays a critical role in developing, implementing, and managing Turner & Townsend’s Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) framework. This is a global role based in either London or Leeds, responsible for embedding ERM contextually across the business, supporting management in identifying and assessing risks, and ensuring robust monitoring and reporting.
Main Responsibilities
ERM Framework
- Lead Turner & Townsend’s ERM programme, aligning with CBRE’s (70% stake) ERM framework, including:
- Annual risk policy and procedural refreshes
- Monitoring compliance across the business for the ERM process
- Guiding integration of ERM activities in strategic planning
- Collaborate with the broader Risk Management (RM) team and other stakeholders to:
- Define, embed, and update risk appetite (including risk appetite statements, key risk indicators/KRIs, early warning indicators, and risk tolerance limits)
- Support compliance with risk governance standards
- Engage effectively with regional teams to implement and adapt the ERM model locally.
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Risk Assessment & Assurance
- Oversee and coordinate risk assessments (central and regional), ensuring:
- Regular reviews and updates to corporate and regional risk registers
- Country-level capability assessments (in conjunction with RM and regional teams) to confirm adherence to risk appetite and governance
- Review the effectiveness of controls, action plans, mitigation activities, and risk data quality for key risks.
- Facilitate horizon scanning for potential risks (both principal and emerging).
- Design and articulate scenarios for high-impact events to build crisis preparedness.
Risk Reporting
- Provide regular monitoring, reporting and analytics to senior leadership, boards, and committees.
- Aggregate regional risks for .board-level reporting to ensure informed decision-making.
Business Engagement
- Work with Risk Management (RM) and other business units to:
- Ensure systems, processes, and controls comply with legal, regulatory, and internal requirements.
- Lead continuous risk maturity improvement and operational consistency.
- Support policy amendments due to legal or regulatory updates impacting regions or the business.
- Develop, deliver, and monitor training programmes on ERM, ensuring broad readability of concepts.
- Champion a risk-aware culture:
- Design awareness initiatives and communications ('‘tone from the top’’)
- Provide clear guidance on risk management principles
- Foster continuous improvement.
- Provide crisis management support, and assist with due diligence in mergers and acquisitions.
Reporting & Collaboration
The ERM Director reports to the Global Head of Risk Management in London. Key interfaces include:
- RM functions (e.g., Enterprise Risk, Assurance, Legal & Contract Risk, Ethics & Compliance, Data Privacy)
- Operational leadership (e.g., Regional Managing Directors, Regional Boards)
- Central Services (e.g., Finance, HR)
- Relevant external advisors as required.
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Qualifications & Requirements
- Proficient in risk management, ideally professionally certified through:
- The Institute of Risk Management (or equivalent qualification).
- Strong experience in:
- Designing, delivering, and adapting an ERM framework, especially across global or consultancy environments.
- Risk management techniques, with a focus on risk appetite application.
- The ability to simplify technical concepts for non-specialists.
- Disruptive adaptability: self-motivated, proactive, and resilient with fluency across varied time zones where pertinent.
Company Culture & Benefits
At Turner & Townsend, we prioritise:
- Inspired workplaces where every individual’s voice drives meaningful change.
- A balanced, flexible, and healthy work environment that fosters personal and professional success.
- An equal opportunity employer that celebrates diversity and commitment to inclusivity for employees from all backgrounds.
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