Risk Manager – Data Centre Portfolio

Department: EMEA Consultancy – Data Centre

Location: Remote UK

About the opportunity

We are looking for an experienced Risk Manager to join our team. The successful candidate will support the delivery of a large, complex EMEA data centre portfolio, providing structured, decision‑focused risk management across multiple projects.

Key Responsibilities

Project & Programme Risk Management

• Lead and maintain project and programme processes in line with agreed frameworks and systems.
• Facilitate structured risk identification and review workshops across development, design and construction phases.
• Monitor emerging risks, closures and escalations against agreed risk tolerances.

Quantitative Risk Analysis & Decision Support

• Support and deliver Quantitative Risk Analysis (QRA) to inform contingency setting and confidence levels.
• Translate qualitative risks into quantitative inputs and articulate key risk drivers, sensitivities and assumptions.
• Present QRA outputs in a clear, decision‑ready format for senior stakeholders.

Governance, Reporting & Assurance

• Support portfolio and project risk governance forums, including periodic risk reviews.
• Produce concise executive risk summaries highlighting top risks, trends and changes in exposure.
• Support formal risk acceptance and approval processes, ensuring clear audit trails and accountability.
• Ensure alignment between risk registers, cost plans, schedules and commercial assumptions.

Stakeholder Engagement & Integration

• Work closely with project managers, commercial managers, planners, designers and contractors.
• Act as a trusted advisor, embedding risk‑based thinking into project and governance decisions.
• Promote a consistent, proportionate risk culture across the EMEA portfolio.

Continuous Improvement

• Analyse risk outcomes and mitigation performance to identify themes and improvement opportunities.
• Translate lessons learned into strengthened preventative controls and improved risk processes.
• Contribute to the evolution of risk management guidance, tools, and training across the portfolio.

Qualifications

Essential

• Experience in Project & Programme Risk Management on complex capital projects.
• Strong facilitation skills and ability to engage with senior technical and commercial stakeholders.
• Understanding of qualitative and quantitative risk analysis techniques.
• Ability to structure complex uncertainty into clear, actionable risk insights.
• Comfortable managing multiple priorities across a fast‑paced, multi‑project delivery environment.

Desirable

• Experience in data centres, mission‑critical or complex infrastructure delivery.
• Exposure to cost estimating, scheduling and contingency‑setting processes.
• Experience working across international EMEA programmes.

Benefits

We offer ongoing training and personal development to help you flourish, building a long‑term successful career with us.

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