Turner & Townsend
Senior Risk Manager
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Company Description
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. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.
Our capabilities include 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, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project, and cost management offering in markets around the world.
Please visit our website: www.turnerandtownsend.com
Job Description
THE OPPORTUNITY
At Turner & Townsend, our award-winning Controls & Performance team are focused on driving innovation, enhancing our client’s integrated controls capability, improving performance, and delivering better programme outcomes. We have a growing national team of over 600 Controls & Performance professionals. The breadth and scale of our team provides the ability to reach back and draw upon a vast pool of experience to enhance your knowledge and career. Our strong capability, discipline communities, and varied client base, provide a great opportunity to drive your career, supported by our career pathways.
We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Risk Manager to join our busy and expanding Midlands-based Infrastructure team, who are undertaking a range of Controls and Performance duties on several high-profile Infrastructure Projects/Programmes. Additionally, this role will provide the opportunity to innovate, collaborate, and learn from our experienced and award-winning Risk Management community and wider extensive Controls and Performance network.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Working alongside project delivery teams as part of a wider risk management team or independently with reach-back support to experienced risk professionals, responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Leading teams of Risk Management professionals to deliver effective, consistent, assured, and value-adding risk management across diverse and complex project/programme.
- Planning, designing, and implementing risk management processes tailored to the client’s needs and aligning with best practice.
- Driving continuous improvement in Risk Management (and interfacing project controls) processes to create efficiency and increasing benefits to our clients.
- Challenging risk information to enhance the quality of risk data so that it is robust, stands up to scrutiny, and is reflective of the project environment.
- Supporting the implementation, embedding, and roll-out of any identified changes to Risk Management approaches.
- Acting as the risk subject matter expert in a major project or programme.
- Working with the Integrated Project Team to establish a robust, integrated, well-structured, accurate Performance Measurement Baseline (PMB) and support the change control process.
- Designing and delivering risk training, coaching clients, and less experienced team members in risk management processes and practices.
- Design, set-up, and facilitation of risk workshops with subject matter experts to support with the identification and regular updates of risks and uncertainties specific to the project objectives.
- Maintenance of project and programme risk registers and other additional risk information including maintaining quality control of risk data and reporting.
- Drive the need and implementation of mitigation actions against associated risks across projects and programmes.
- Assist the project team with the identification and development of appropriate management responses which are measurable and specific.
- Actively articulating and promoting the benefits and requirement of Risk Management with the project and programme team.
- Manage Quantitative Schedule and Cost Risk Analysis activities (QSRA/QCRA) and interpreting the outputs to determine where focus should be applied to benefit the project.
- Supporting efficient contingency drawdown processes.
- Working with the supply chain to understand and incorporate the risks they present to clients.
- Working with other Project Controls disciplines to ensure alignment of project information.
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Qualifications
- Excellent communication skills to convey complex risk insights to executives and other stakeholders.
- Strategic thinking to develop effective risk management plans, alongside leadership skills to guide their team.
- Demonstrate a strong commitment to staying informed about the industry, trends, and regulations.
- Showcase a high standard of integrity and play a key role in maintaining ethical standards and ensuring compliance.
- Demonstrate strong analytical and software skills with excellent attention to detail.
- Adaptable with the ability to provide robust guidance during periods of change and complexity.
- Effective decision-making with an enhanced ability to assess risks, prioritise actions, and make informed choices for the benefit of the organisation.
- Excellent problem-solving ability to identify, analyse, and solve complex risk-related challenges.
- Ability to manage effective relationships with strategic stakeholders and interfacing functions.
- Ability to effectively interpret client requirements and manage stakeholder expectations.
- Effective time management and timely responses.
- Ability to adjust risk strategies and processes in response to change.
- Works to make positive change happen by embracing challenges and opportunities for our clients.
- Effectively leads, connects, and communicates with people to collaborate to deliver our best work.
- Brings out the best in everyone by helping others make the most of their potential through effective leadership and teamworking.
- Takes responsibility for the development of personal performance and core skillset.
- Promotes an inclusive workplace.
- A UK driving license or the ability to travel to client sites, as required, is essential.
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Additional Information
Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.
Please find out more about us at www.turnerandtownsend.com
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SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.
SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.
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Department: Infrastructure
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