Lead Risk & Opportunity Manager

About the role

We’re looking for a talented Risk & Opportunity Manager to join our team based from our Advanced Manufacturing Facility in Ampthill, Bedfordshire.

This role benefits from our 4xFlex working pattern, offering a 4-day working week (Monday–Thursday) alongside hybrid working. You’ll work onsite Monday and Tuesday, with Wednesday and Thursday from home, subject to business needs.

As our Risk & Opportunity Manager you will provide support to either a single complex Programme or across a number of Projects within a business area. You will work directly with Project teams in the development & maintenance of Risk & Opportunity registers spanning the full lifecycle.

The Risk and Opportunity register contains the known Cost, Schedule and Technical Risk. The successful applicant will work with the Programme team to develop a quantitative and qualitative analysis of each Risk, mitigation plans to reduce each risk or enhance each Opportunity.

In conjunction with the Master Planner/ Scheduler the Risk & Opportunity Manager will use the approved tool to develop a Monte Carlo analysis of the programme. You will publish the results of the Schedule & Cost Risk Analysis (SRS / CRA) in accordance with contract deliverable requirements.

Duties / Responsibilities:

• Develop the Risk and Opportunity register, complete with quantitative and qualitative impacts and mitigation plans.
• Perform ongoing Monte Carlo Schedule & Cost Risk Analysis.
• Facilitate Risk and Opportunity meetings with Programme teams, including governance of the Risk & Opportunity Management process.
• Assist in the development of cohesive and logical mitigation plans.
• Maintain current status of the Risk and Opportunity Register.
• Production of Project Risk and Opportunity Reporting.

Required skills, qualifications and experience

• Proven experience in a Risk Management role
• Excellent working knowledge of and experience in industry standard risk tools, such as ARM, Acumen Risk and Predict.
• Risk planning in MoD or Defence related programmes and be able to understand and work with a technical and skill-diverse team.
• Analyse schedules for risk and opportunity and clearly communicate to programme manager and leads.
• Able to communicate with a wide range of people including internal senior management and project team members, subcontractors and suppliers through to high level customer representatives.
• Proven working in fast-paced environment and be agile and adapt to changing priorities
• Team player with excellent stakeholder management skills