Risk Manager – Data Centre Portfolio

Role Overview

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Requirements

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

Benefits

• Ongoing training and personal development opportunities
• Opportunities to progress quickly
• Involvement in high-profile programmes across sectors
• Access to world-class resources and technology
• A platform for innovation and challenging traditional consultancy models