Project Risk manager - Construction Consultancy

Cmr.london; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

CMR is a progressive consultancy in the construction sector seeking a Risk Manager to support project management and commercial teams by identifying, assessing and managing risks. You will facilitate risk workshops, maintain risk registers, analyze risk exposure, and contribute to monthly reports while helping improve our risk management processes.

This role combines home-based work with 2-3 days in our London office per week, offering opportunities to grow within a dynamic team and make a

Qualifications

• Essential: Relevant experience in project management, project controls or risk management.
• Essential: Experience on major construction or infrastructure projects.
• Essential: Good understanding of risk management methodologies and mitigation processes.
• Essential: Experience developing and maintaining project risk registers.
• Essential: Experience facilitating or supporting risk workshops with stakeholders.
• Essential: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with ability to interpret project information.
• Essential: Able to understand technical concepts and communicate them clearly to a wider audience.
• Essential: Good communication and stakeholder management skills; proactive in identifying opportunities to improve project performance.

Responsibilities

• Identify, assess and manage project risks across initiatives.
• Facilitate risk workshops and maintain project risk registers with clear causes, events, impacts and mitigations.
• Assess likelihood and impact of risks and support proportionate responses.
• Monitor mitigation actions and ensure timely closure with stakeholders.
• Support monthly risk reporting with analysis and insight for clients.
• Contribute to qualitative and quantitative risk analysis to estimate cost and schedule exposure.
• Build strong relationships with project and client stakeholders to promote a proactive risk culture.
• Assist senior Risk Managers in delivering high-quality risk management services.

Skills

Project management

Risk management

Stakeholder management

Analytical skills

Communication

Problem-solving

Technical mindset

Tools

@Risk

Primavera Risk Analysis

ARM

Safran

Job description

Position: Risk Manager Location: Working from home and in the London office 3 days a week Type: Full-time Start Date: Immediate

About us

CMR is first and foremost a team of people, passionate about the construction industry and changing the way project controls is provided. We are a progressive and dynamic consultancy offering tailored project controls services across a range of industries.

Our Purpose

Inspiring new ways to help shape our construction industry.

Our Ambition

Re-imagine project controls through a digital lens, being the obvious choice for clients and the place to grow together with intention.

What's in it for you?

At CMR you will have the opportunity to professionally develop like nowhere you have worked before. If you demonstrate the capability, our merit-based system will enable you to develop quickly. We use our in-house capability matrix to transparently track your progression and highlight development areas.

Join our small, dynamic team where every member has the chance to make a significant impact, shaping the future direction of our company and making a real difference. We believe in rewarding our team for their achievements, celebrating our successes but equally helping each other when things are tough.

You’ll Support the Project Management and Commercial Teams in the effective identification, assessment and management of project risks.

Facilitate and support risk workshops, ensuring key risks, opportunities and exposures are identified and appropriately captured. Maintain project risk registers, ensuring risks are clearly defined in terms of causes, events, impacts and appropriate mitigation actions. Work with project teams to assess the likelihood and impact of identified risks and support the development of effective and proportionate responses. Monitor risk mitigation actions and work with stakeholders to ensure agreed actions are progressed and closed out. Support the production of monthly project reports, providing accurate risk information, analysis and insight. Assist with qualitative and quantitative risk analysis to help project teams understand potential cost and schedule exposure. Identify trends, emerging risks and areas of concern, escalating these to senior members of the team where appropriate. Build strong working relationships with project and client stakeholders, helping to promote a positive and proactive risk culture. Contribute to the continuous improvement of CMR's risk management processes, tools and ways of working. Support Senior Risk Managers and Project Controls Leads in delivering high-quality risk management services to our clients.

Essential

• Relevant experience within a project management, project controls or risk management environment.
• Experience working on major construction or infrastructure projects.
• A good understanding of risk management methodologies, mitigation processes and techniques.
• Experience in developing and maintaining project risk registers.
• Experience facilitating or supporting risk workshops with project stakeholders.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to interpret project information and identify potential areas of risk.
• A technically minded individual who can understand technical concepts and communicate them clearly to a wider audience.
• Good communication and stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to challenge assumptions and ask the right questions.
• A proactive approach to identifying opportunities to improve project performance and risk management.

Desirable

• Recognised project management or risk qualification such as Association for Project Management (APM) or Institute of Risk Management (IRM).
• Experience of quantitative risk analysis and/or cost and schedule risk analysis.
• Experience using risk management or quantitative risk analysis tools such as @Risk, Primavera Risk Analysis, ARM or Safran.
• Experience working within a project controls environment.

At CMR We have a strong culture driven by our 9 Core Principles

We look to build a community of people that share our values and ambitions. We're proud that 96% of our team say CMR is a "Great Place to Work" - a reflection of our supportive culture, focus on people, and drive to do things differently.