Associate Director - Risk

Astute People; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits package

International mobility opportunities

Job summary

Astute is recruiting an Associate or Associate Director for Risk Management to join its Nuclear Team on a permanent basis. The role focuses on interpreting risk, challenging assumptions and advising senior leaders on risk and change across major programmes.

The successful candidate will lead risk commissions, oversee quantitative risk analyses and develop risk services while mentoring others in a fast-growing, international consultancy environment.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in project, programme or major infrastructure environments.
• Strong experience in quantitative cost and schedule risk analysis (QSRA, QCRA).
• Ability to interpret risk models and challenge assumptions.
• Proven ability to advise senior stakeholders on risk, issues, change and project strategy.
• Experience across the full project lifecycle including distressed projects.
• Strong leadership and people development capabilities.
• Experience across infrastructure, rail, nuclear, healthcare or major construction sectors beneficial.
• Professional qualification such as APM, IRM, PMI or RICS is advantageous.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Commercial awareness and interest in developing new risk services.

Responsibilities

• Lead risk management commissions and interventions for major clients and projects.
• Act as senior adviser for clients on project and organisational risk management.
• Oversee quantitative cost and schedule risk analysis (QSRA/QCRA) across projects.
• Provide senior leaders with clear, practical advice on risk, issues and change.
• Lead risk activities within project controls environments and PMOs.
• Develop and coach risk professionals across the organisation.
• Develop and deliver training and guidance on risk management and related disciplines.
• Contribute to business development and new risk services opportunities.
• Collaborate with sustainability, lifecycle costing and healthcare teams to deliver integrated solutions.
• Build relationships with clients and international stakeholders.

Skills

QSRA modelling

QCRA modelling

Risk management

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Project controls

Client relationships

Risk advisory

Education

APM

IRM

PMI

RICS

Tools

None specified

Job description

Astute's Nuclear Team are recruiting an Associate or Associate Director for Risk Management on a permanent basis.

This is a senior risk management opportunity for an experienced project and programme risk professional with extensive experience in quantitative risk analysis, QSRA and QCRA modelling. The successful candidate will join a growing risk team, leading commissions and interventions for major clients and nationally significant projects across a range of sectors.

You will not be spending the majority of your time carrying out modelling. Instead, you will use your technical understanding, analytical experience and wider project background to interpret risk, challenge assumptions and provide senior leaders with clear, commercially considered advice on risk, issues and change.

The role would suit an experienced Risk Manager, Risk Consultant, Project Controls professional or Senior Risk Specialist who can hit the ground running and take a leadership role within major project environments.

If you have extensive quantitative risk analysis experience and are looking for an opportunity to influence major projects while developing clients, people and new risk services,

Responsibilities and duties of the Associate / Associate Director - Risk Management role

• Lead risk management commissions and interventions for major clients, programmes and nationally significant projects.
• Act as a senior point of contact and trusted adviser for clients on project and organisational risk management.
• Undertake and oversee quantitative cost and schedule risk analysis, including QSRA and QCRA modelling, across healthy and distressed projects and throughout the project lifecycle.
• Use quantitative analysis, project experience and professional judgement to identify the implications of risk, uncertainty, issues and change.
• Provide senior leaders with clear, practical advice to support considered decisions around project strategy, risk exposure and organisational approach.
• Lead risk management activities within project controls environments and PMOs, helping clients improve the maturity and effectiveness of their risk management processes.
• Challenge assumptions, identify emerging risks and provide constructive recommendations where projects or programmes require intervention.
• Lead and develop risk professionals, supporting knowledge sharing, coaching and the growth of capability across the wider business.
• Develop and deliver training and guidance across risk management, project management, value management and related disciplines.
• Contribute to business development, identifying opportunities to develop new risk services, tools and approaches across existing and emerging sectors.
• Collaborate with teams across sustainability, life cycle costing, healthcare, net zero and other specialist disciplines to deliver integrated client solutions.
• Develop relationships with clients and stakeholders locally and internationally, supporting the continued growth of the risk management service.

Professional and Personal skills

• Extensive experience working within project, programme or major infrastructure environments, ideally across complex construction or capital projects.
• Strong practical experience of quantitative cost and schedule risk analysis, including QSRA and QCRA modelling.
• The ability to understand and interpret risk models and outputs, with sufficient technical expertise to challenge assumptions and provide informed recommendations.
• A proven ability to advise senior stakeholders and project leadership teams on risk, issues, change and project strategy.
• Experience working across the full project lifecycle, including both healthy and distressed projects.
• Strong leadership capabilities, with experience developing people, leading teams or taking responsibility for risk workstreams and commissions.
• Experience within sectors such as infrastructure, rail, nuclear, healthcare, hospitals, life sciences, pharmaceuticals, heritage or major construction would be beneficial.
• Construction or major capital project experience is particularly desirable.
• A relevant professional qualification such as APM, IRM, PMI, RICS or an appropriate risk management qualification would be advantageous.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to challenge senior stakeholders constructively.
• Commercial awareness and an interest in developing new services, tools and opportunities within risk management.
• The ability to work independently, manage competing workloads and operate effectively within a collaborative, international consultancy environment.

Salary and benefits of the Associate / Associate Director - Risk Management role

• Competitive salary dependent on experience and level
• Permanent position
• Opportunity to work on major programmes and nationally significant projects
• Exposure to clients and projects across multiple sectors and international markets
• Structured career progression towards senior leadership
• Opportunities to develop specialist risk services and new areas of expertise
• International mobility opportunities, including permanent and secondment opportunities
• Comprehensive benefits package
• Collaborative working environment with access to specialist teams across the wider businessINDNUC

Equality, diversity and inclusion

We do not discriminate on the grounds of age, race, gender, disability, creed or sexual orientation and comply with all relevant UK legislation.

We encourage applications from individuals from all backgrounds but candidates must be able to demonstrate their ability to work in the UK.

Astute is also committed to the government's Disability Confident Employer initiative.