Cooper Moss Rutland
Risk Manager - Major Programmes
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Risk Managers – Major Programmes
Location: UK-wide
Salary: £55,000-75,000, depending on experience
Type: Full-time
Start date: Flexible
About the role
Want to be the person who helps major infrastructure projects avoid problems before they happen, rather than simply reporting on them afterwards?
As a Risk Manager at CMR you'll help clients make better decisions by identifying, analysing and managing project risk across some of the UK's largest infrastructure programmes. You'll have genuine ownership, direct exposure to our Partners and clients, and the opportunity to develop quickly within a specialist Project Controls consultancy.
What you'll do
Risk management
- Develop and maintain project risk registers in line with client governance and industry best practice
- Facilitate risk identification workshops with project teams and stakeholders
- Ensure risks, opportunities, assumptions and dependencies are accurately captured, owned and regularly reviewed
- Monitor the effectiveness of mitigation actions and drive proactive risk management throughout the project lifecycle
Risk analysis & reporting
- Produce qualitative and quantitative risk assessments to support project decision making
- Carry out quantitative risk analysis (QRA), including Monte Carlo simulations where appropriate
- Identify emerging trends, key threats and opportunities, escalating issues before they impact project delivery
- Prepare clear, insightful risk reports and dashboards for project leadership and clients
Stakeholder coordination
- Lead risk workshops with clients, contractors and multidisciplinary delivery teams
- Challenge assumptions and encourage constructive discussion to improve project certainty
- Work closely with Planning, Cost, Commercial and Engineering teams to ensure risk information reflects the latest project position
- Present complex risk information clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
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Governance & assurance
- Support the development and continuous improvement of project risk management processes
- Ensure compliance with client governance, assurance requirements and recognised industry standards
- Provide risk insight to support change control, business cases and investment decisions
- Contribute to lessons learned and continuous improvement across programmes
What we're looking for
Essential
- Proven experience delivering risk management on major construction or infrastructure projects
- Experience facilitating risk workshops with multiple stakeholders
- Strong understanding of qualitative and quantitative risk management techniques
- Confident communicating project risk to technical and non-technical audiences
- Right to work in the UK
Nice to have (don't let these put you off applying if you don't have them)
- Experience using Active Risk Manager (ARM), Predict!, Safran Risk or similar risk management software
- Experience performing Quantitative Risk Analysis (QRA) and Monte Carlo modelling
- Knowledge of APM Risk Management, ISO 31000 or similar frameworks
- Familiarity with NEC or other infrastructure contract forms
- Previous consultancy experience
- Relevant degree and/or professional memberships (equivalent practical experience is just as valued)
Not for you if...
- You see risk management as simply updating registers rather than influencing project decisions
- You'd rather work independently than facilitate discussions and challenge stakeholders constructively
- You're looking for a slow-moving, hierarchical environment
- You prefer reporting problems over helping teams solve them
What makes us different
Specialist depth over generalist breadth; a career at CMR is built all around one discipline, project controls, not just a rotation through it. As the Global Project Controls Small Business of the Year 2025 we offer a chance to work and grow alongside some of the very best in the industry.
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Real progression and meritocracy; every team member is tracked against our APM and CaSA endorsed capability matrix — a transparent and evidence-based route to the next level. No favourites and no guesswork about what "ready" really means. Our leadership team includes people from a wide range of backgrounds and career starting points, not because of who they are, but because our system doesn’t gatekeep on anything except capability.
Direct senior exposure, genuine ownership; our flat structure means all team members work directly with our Partners and clients from day one. Our leaders trust their teams and won't micromanage you. Your work shapes real programme outcomes.
Find out more about our diverse team and our vision, mission and principles in action at Who We Are - Cooper Moss Rutland LLP.
Compensation & benefits
No big, vague promises we don’t intend to keep to lure new joiners in. Instead, we hold ourselves fully accountable to the list of specific benefits below, providing them to every member of our team as standard:
Financial:
- Competitive and transparent salary bands
- Matched pension contributions up to 4%
- Profit share company bonus
- Equity scheme
- Referral bonus scheme
Development:
- 3 training days per year
- Training budget
- In-house career coaching
- Professional membership & certification
Wellbeing:
- 25+ days annual leave
- Long service leave
- Private healthcare
- Flexible results-based working
- Gym membership
- Life insurance
- Enhanced maternity & paternity leave
- New parent counselling and support
Community:
- Annual company getaway
- Monthly work socials
- Weekly office lunches
Requirements to work
Full right to work in the UK is required for this role. We operate with a hybrid work policy, with most of our team on site/in the office either 2 or 3 days per week.
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