Risk & Opportunity Manager

Base salary: £38550pa to c.£45350pa depending on skills and experience. In addition, we offer a flexible benefits fund of 15% which is paid on top of the 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.

As the Risk & Opportunity Manager, you will be responsible for:

• Supporting the management of strategic enterprise risk & opportunity, developing risk & opportunity management policies, processes, and standards, and ensuring their effective execution across the organisation.
• Proactively monitoring, identifying and assessing new opportunities that HS2 can exploit to promote value creation.
• Supporting the development and delivery areas by developing an integrated view of risk and opportunity across the programme, identifying trends, and creating risk and value management strategies.
• Helping the business gain an integrated view of quantified risk & opportunities including identifying opportunities and suggesting risk management and mitigation strategies to leadership.

About the role:

• Develop and implement comprehensive risk management and mitigation policies, processes, and standards to ensure a consistent approach to risk across the programme.
• Identify and assess key value drivers within the organisation, understanding factors contributing to value creation, and using this to identify opportunities.
• Ensure the consistent and effective application of risk management policies and processes across the programme and throughout its lifecycle.
• Measure and monitor the creation and delivery of opportunities within the organisation.
• Support the evaluation and reporting of risks to inform decision-making.
• Provide guidance and advice on risk management to development and delivery areas across the organisation.
• Quantitatively analyse the risk exposure of threats, opportunities, and issues that could affect the programme's objectives.
• Provide a reliable assessment of the overall programme risk exposure to inform financial forecasts.
• Actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all work.

About you:

Skills:

• Prioritisation - able to manage and plan multiple workstreams to best fit business needs.
• Decision Quality - Gathering and synthesising information to provide relevant information to decision-makers.
• Communication risk & opportunity concepts and information in a way that is easily understood.
• Ability to assimilate large volumes of detail, drawing out the key issues in a clear and concise way.
• Ability to provide guidance on a daily basis to the junior members of the team.
• Ability to adhere to the approved processes and to provide feedback to the manager.
• Ability to develop, monitor and report risk & opportunity management actions.

Knowledge:

• Knowledge of Risk and Opportunity Management processes, ideally in large infrastructure projects.
• Knowledge and understanding of how to quantitatively and qualitatively assess complex and integrated construction and commissioning work.

Type of Experience:

• Experience of working independently and as part of a broader team.
• Experience of reporting to internal stakeholders on risk management.
• Experience of enacting approved systems and processes to support the achievement of business goals.
• Risk Management qualification such as the Institute of Risk Management (IRM) or the Association of Project Management (APM).
• Experience of project/programme risk & opportunity management role within large scale, complex projects.

The post-holder is expected to behave at all times in a manner consistent with the HS2 values of Safety, Leadership, Integrity and Respect.

As HS2 Ltd do not hold a sponsorship license from the Home Office, we are not able to provide sponsorship to any applicant. Applicants must already have the Right to Work in the UK at the time of application.

Any offers made to applicants will be subject to satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks.

High Speed 2 (HS2 Ltd) will be the UK's new high-speed rail network, improving capacity and shortening journey times between major population centres.

HS2 Ltd aims to be a leader in EDI practice by creating a safe & inclusive working environment for all our staff.

• Job Identification 240770
• Job Category Programme Controls
• Posting Date 01/10/2025
• Apply Before 01/24/2025
• Job Schedule Full time
• Locations 1 Eversholt Street, London, NW1 2DN, GB
• Permanent or Fixed Term Contract Permanent