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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