Risk Manager – Enterprise

Company: Resilience Forward
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Location: Birmingham
Job Description:

Location: UK, BirminghamCompany: HS2 Ltd

This role is responsible for supporting the management of strategic enterprise risk, developing risk management policies, processes, and standards, and ensuring these are effectively executed across the organization. The role will also support development and delivery areas by developing an integrated view of risk across the programme, identifying trends, and developing risk management and mitigation strategies.

Job role

  • To be accountable for supporting the development of an integrated view of risk across the programme.
  • To be responsible for providing guidance in risk management and mitigation to teams across the programme.
  • To be responsible for supporting the development and delivery of risk management and mitigation policies, processes, and standards, leveraging industry best practice, and driving continuous improvement.
  • To be accountable for ensuring that risk management policies and processes are applied consistently and effectively across the programme and across the programme lifecycle.
  • To be responsible for supporting the joint evaluation of risks by Project Controls and the supply chain to establish a thorough risk profile and a basis for risk-sharing and incentives.
  • To be accountable for supporting HS2’s periodic performance and risk reporting, ensuring leaders have the information needed to make informed risk management, risk-sharing, and contingency management decisions.
  • To be responsible for providing advice on risk management to development and delivery areas across the organization.
  • To be accountable for supporting and guiding other teams in relation to the use and understanding of risk management data.
  • To be responsible for providing functional line management, performance management, and objective-setting support to direct reports.
  • To be accountable for supporting the development and implementation of Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA) policies, processes, and standards.
  • To be accountable for the quantitative analysis of the risk exposure of threats, opportunities, and issues that could affect the HS2 programme objectives, making use of HS2 and industry-standard risk management tooling and systems.
  • To be accountable for statistically modelling identified risks in quantitative terms of cost, time, and other categories of risk as appropriate, ensuring that HS2 programme quantitative risk models are robust and auditable.
  • To be responsible for providing a reliable assessment of the overall HS2 programme risk exposure to inform the financial forecasts produced within Finance.
  • To be responsible for working with Risk Managers, Planners, Cost Managers, and Project Controls Managers to deliver cost and schedule risk assessments, ensuring leaders have the information required to make informed delivery trade-off decisions.
  • To be accountable for producing scenarios for risk exposure over time and analysing these relative to the contingency provisions in the HS2 Investment Model.
  • Actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organizational initiatives, policies, and procedures on EDI.

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Posted: October 27th, 2026