Head of Risk - Enterprise

Base salary: £79,035pa to £92,982pa depending on skills and experience. In addition, we offer flexible benefits fund of 20% which is paid on top base salary and is fully pensionable, as well as a range of competitive benefits - check them out in the Benefits section on our website.

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential. In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.
Job Purpose

Responsible for developing and implementing standards, policy and process, reporting and monitoring performance of the overall risk and opportunity process, with specific responsibility for Enterprise Risk Management provided to the HS2 programme.

The role will have a key influence in promoting the effective management of risk to HS2 Executive and Delivery Leadership Team (DLT) through provision of specialist services and advice, working to develop an integrated view of risk across the Enterprise, identifying trends and suggesting risk management and mitigation strategies to leadership.
About the Role

- Lead the identification, assessment and management of Enterprise Risk across HS2 including but not limited to the CFO Directorate, CCO Directorate and Business Delivery Directorate.

- To be accountable for the implementation of a Risk Management Strategy and ensuring it is communicated and embedded across the HS2 Enterprise.

- Act as the senior point of contact for Enterprise Risk Management, providing strategic leadership and advice to the HS2 Ltd Executive and Delivery Leadership Team.

- Implement the approved management system process and procedures through HS2 work programme, including use of risk and opportunity management software tools, development of templates, and communication and training materials as necessary.

- Support the Director of Assurance and Risk in the development, and implementation of risk standards, policies and processes and ensuring they are communicated and embedded across HS2, taking industry best practice and promoting continuous improvement.

- Engage with Quality and Assurance leaders in the implementation of a comprehensive framework of risk management, controls and assurance.

- Support risk & opportunity owners in the identification of risks & opportunities, development of risk mitigation/opportunity exploitation plans, and support decision making through the provision of relevant risk & opportunity information and advice where required.

- To prepare risk and opportunity reports for senior leadership in HS2 and external bodies, preparing related Freedom of Information responses etc.

- To be accountable for ensuring monitoring, analytics and reporting capability is available to drive performance, ensuring data quality is maintained within the risk management system across the HS2 Enterprise.

- Lead the risk and opportunity team across multiple locations including setting objectives, reviewing performance and ensuring that employees have the necessary skills and understanding to deliver the team’s objectives.

- To be accountable for the deployment of specialist resources and expertise in risk management across the HS2 Ltd Enterprise.

- Ensuring the Risk Management team adheres to corporate practices including risk, assurance, and stakeholder management.

- Actively promote and embed Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work, and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.

About You Skills

- Risk and Opportunity management skills and approaches, with a sound commercial understanding of construction projects.

- Leadership & team development skills to build effective teams, including role modelling, promoting continuous improvement, creating a clear sense of direction and priorities and creating ownership and accountability.

- Communication and influencing skills, with the ability to engage and influence colleagues and external stakeholders at all levels, including the Board and Senior Executives.

- Able to convey complex Risk and Opportunity management concepts into easily understood narratives for a variety of audiences.

- Decision Quality - Gathering and synthesising information, identifying options and applying judgement based on logic and reason, making use of a variety of analytical approaches to provide relevant information to suppliers, stakeholders and decision makers using key facts and data.

- Ability to develop, with the aid of subject matter experts where appropriate, and implement appropriate risk management actions for identified risks across projects.

- Ability to define and embed processes to enable the effective financial management of risk.

- Ability to undertake qualitative and quantitative risk analyses in support of business decision making.

Knowledge

- Knowledge of Enterprise Risk Management in complex environments.

- Knowledge of quality and assurance (including 3 lines of defence models).

- Understanding of UK government guidance on management of risk (including but not limited to the Orange Book).

- Understanding of the operation of major projects and programmes.

- Understanding of matrix organisations in programme delivery.

Type of Experience

- Experience of reporting at Board level and advising senior stakeholders on risk management, including assimilating complex information into simple and easy to understand management information.

- Experience of establishing and managing systems and processes to enable and support the achievement of business goals.

- Experience of project/programme risk management role within large scale, complex project.

- Experience of applying risk management concepts and procedures to large scale projects, and providing specialist impartial advice to internal stakeholders.

- Experience of integrating an extended supply chain with a client risk and opportunity register.

- Experience of risk and opportunity assurance and governance processes.

- Recognised Risk Management qualification such as the Institute of Risk Management (IRM) or the Association of Project Management (APM).

- Experience of leading and developing a team within a major project or programme.

- Experience of using risk management systems such as Oracle Primavera Risk.

We ask for a variety of detail in your online application, however we perform the first assessment of suitability for a role based solely on the information in your CV. In a further development of our efforts to create a more diverse workforce, your CV will be anonymised and personal information will be removed during the first stage of the application review. This removes bias from the process and makes it even more important that you attach an updated word version of your CV for each new application ensuring you include evidence directly related to the criteria in the job advert. Watch this video on how we remove bias in the recruitment process: Removing bias in the recruitment process - YouTube.

Any applications received after the closing date will not be considered.