Principal Risk Manager

Morson are currently recruiting for a Principal Risk Manager with our leading aerospace and defence client. You’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary, directly contributing to the successful delivery of our complex, high profile and mission critical projects & programmes. We offer flexible working to give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met. This role provides hybrid working arrangements with 1-2 days in Ashton Vale, Bristol and rest of days working from home.

Job Description:

• You will be responsible for tailoring the project/programme Risk Management approach, within the Framework. Driving the implementation of robust Risk (and opportunity) management, authoring, and maintaining suitable Risk Management Plans, Risk Registers and leading in the identification and management of delivery focused Risks & Opportunities.
• You will be responsible for the appropriate aggregation and escalation of Risks both within your Project/Programme and to the wider Mission Systems Discipline representatives.
• Where required you will evaluate Supplier risks, working with supply chain and commercial to support contracting mechanisms for risk and incorporate them into the project/programme.
• You will work with project/programme stakeholders to undertake/lead quantitative risk management techniques, including schedule and cost risk analysis (SRA/CRA), ensuring the project/programme risk exposure is clearly understood whilst managing effective and targeted risk management activities.
• You will lead the reporting of Risk for your project/programme, inline with the Mission Systems project lifecycle and drumbeat, and in support of regular customer deliverables.
• You will work with stakeholders throughout your project/programme delivery area to increase the breadth and depth of Risk understanding, through the support of discipline training development and delivery as well as expert advice.
• You will particularly support the development of less experienced members of the Risk and Project Controls Disciplines, helping to growing our future talent.
• This role also offers the opportunity to support the development and implementation of best practice Risk Management approaches across the wider Project Management & Project Controls function within Mission Systems.

Essential experience:

• Experience of working within robust risk management governance & assurance within large projects and programmes.
• Experience driving day to day application of focused risk management activities within multi-discipline teams.
• Leading Risk Identification, using a variety of techniques, with stakeholders at multiple levels
• Experience conducting quantitative risk management techniques, including Monte Carlo Analysis
• Experience communicating Risk Management plans, processes and findings (analysis), verbal/written/graphical.

• Experience supporting scope control through Assumptions, Dependencies or Change management (desirable)
• Past experience in complementary Project Specialisms e.g. Project Controls, Planning & Scheduling, Commercial, Finance, Supply chain, Cost Engineering, Systems Engineering (desirable)
• Experience in defence or similar industry (desirable)