Risk Manager

ZipRecruiter; Basingstoke; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking organization as a Risk Manager, where you will play a pivotal role in shaping a proactive risk management culture. This exciting position offers the chance to collaborate with various stakeholders, ensuring effective risk identification and mitigation across the organization. With a focus on continuous improvement, you will lead initiatives that enhance risk awareness and capabilities. Enjoy a flexible work environment that promotes work-life balance while contributing to a mission that impacts the community positively. If you have a passion for risk management and want to make a difference, this opportunity is for you.

Benefits

£450 yearly flexible benefit pot

25 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays

Generous matched pension scheme up to 12%

Life cover at 4x salary

Options for private medical insurance

Dental insurance

Wellbeing discounts

Gym Memberships

Access to a 24/7 virtual GP service

Qualifications

• Experience in risk management with a robust understanding of frameworks.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the risk management culture across SNG and support decision-making.
• Identify, assess, and manage risks while providing expert advice.

Skills

Risk Management

Stakeholder Management

Communication Skills

Agile Project Management

Data Analysis

Job description

Job Description

We have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Risk Manager to join our Risk and Assurance team at Sovereign Network Group (SNG). You'll be an integral part of our risk function, which sets out how we manage risk in SNG and works with the whole organisation to embed that approach into our everyday activities and decision-making.

Based from our offices in Basingstoke or Wembley, you'll combine home and office working to ensure a positive work / life balance. There may be some occasional travel to our other offices for meetings or workshops.

It's a really exciting time to join us as Sovereign have joined forces with Network Homes to form SNG (Sovereign Network Group). Together we provide over 84,000 homes and invest in communities across London and the South of England – our purpose being to provide quality affordable homes and places that people love.

The Role

Reporting into our Head of Risk, you'll partner with stakeholders throughout the organisation to provide expert risk management advice, support decision-making processes, and enhance SNG's ability to achieve its objectives. As Risk Manager, you'll play a crucial role in embedding a proactive risk management culture within SNG, ensuring that risks are effectively identified, assessed, and mitigated. Responsibilities include:

• Leading the approach across SNG to create a culture of consistent and high-quality risk management
• Supporting the organisation in implementing our framework for risk management roles, responsibilities and decision-making
• Supporting stakeholders to identify, assess, and manage risks across the organisation, ensuring sufficient and appropriate mitigation measures are in place
• Providing expert advice on risk management matters and emerging risks
• Embedding practices throughout SNG to ensure risks are reliably identified, assessed, prioritised, and managed
• Collating and analysing risk data to support the Head of Risk to identify trends, insights, and areas for improvement, as well as providing input into senior leadership reports
• Developing and delivering workshops and training sessions to enhance risk awareness and capabilities across the business

What we're looking for

You should have previous experience in a similar role, with demonstrable technical knowledge and skills in Risk management. A background in housing is not essential but ideally you'll have gained experience from a large organisation with a variety of risk areas to consider.

You'll also have:

• Experience in supporting the implementation of a robust risk management framework
• Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence and engage stakeholders at all levels
• Clear communication skills, ensuring technical information is presented clearly and concisely
• An agile approach, confident to work successfully on multiple projects at different stages and effectively prioritise tasks
• Experience in designing and/or delivering risk management awareness and training programmes is desirable

Your Benefits

We have some great benefits at SNG, including:

• £450 yearly flexible benefit pot to use against benefits of your choice
• 25 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays (with an extra day every year up to 30 days)
• Chance to buy or sell holiday as part of our flexible benefits package
• Generous matched pension scheme up to 12% and Life cover at 4x salary
• Options for private medical insurance, dental insurance and critical illness cover
• Wellbeing discounts, including Gym Memberships and access to a 24/7 virtual GP service

At Sovereign Network Group, we are passionate about equality and creating a workplace where everyone can thrive. We are committed to our Equality and Diversity strategy and believe that you can truly be yourself at SNG. Take a look at our careers site to learn more about us and our values.

This is a great opportunity to join the team as we progress through an exciting period of change. What we do makes a real difference to people's lives and by joining us you can share the satisfaction of doing something that really matters.