Senior Risk Management Lead – Programs & Contracts

Turner & Townsend; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 165,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend seeks an Associate Director of Risk Management to lead risk services for key client accounts and grow risk management offerings across the business.

Responsibilities include threat/opportunity cost profiling, risk reporting, quantitative risk assessment, and end-to-end risk management across multiple projects. Strong leadership, client management, and contract knowledge are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, cost management, quantity surveying, engineering or field related to construction.
• Graduate degree in quantity surveying, cost management, construction management, or engineering is preferred.
• 10+ years of relevant risk management or risk program controls experience.
• 2+ years managing high performing risk management services and teams in a consulting environment.
• Deep knowledge and experience with risk identification facilitation and techniques.
• Strong communication, analytical and negotiation skills.
• In-depth understanding of construction contracts, commercials models and delivery methods.
• Proficient in process mapping, root causes analysis, problem solving, and value-stream mapping.
• Familiarity with web-based database tools – ARM, Predict, Tableau.
• Highly self-motivated, analytical, and customer centric.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including great communication.
• Ability to demonstrate collaborative behaviors.
• Organized and thorough individuals.
• Experience in the formulation, setting up, procurement and contract administration of target cost contracts will be an added advantage.
• Demonstrates excellent presentation, verbal, written, organizational and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Maintain visibility of threat/opportunity trigger points to facilitate risk cost profiling.
• Use risk data to inform investment planning.
• Monitor overall risk exposure and assess against the remaining risk budget.
• Work with contractors to assess contractor held risks and their views on client held risks.
• Produce risk reports to support communication of threat & opportunity status.
• Conduct quantitative risk assessment (cost and schedule) to inform project contingency levels.
• Ensure the delivery of best practice risk management activities and report to Head of Department.
• Initiate a proactive approach to review and improve risk management service to the client.
• Undertake end-to-end project risk management on multiple projects/programs.
• Undertake creation of risk management plans and processes per client requirements.
• Lead workshops with internal and external stakeholders.
• Conduct risk reviews, identify, analyze, determine response plans, monitor risk profiles.
• Lead and run a comprehensive schedule and cost qualitative risk assessment process.
• Integrate risk management within program and project controls, with touch points to cost and schedule.
• Work proactively with program and project control teams to eliminate redundancies and identify improvements.
• Provide knowledge transfer within risk team and to client.
• Create value stream mapping to quantify pain points and develop solutions.
• Create improved operating procedures and best practices for the client organization.
• Aligns recommendations to project needs and contract models.
• Collaborate on supplier performance management and tracking of improvement plans.
• Support expert witnesses in arbitral or litigation processes.
• Lead, manage, and carry out construction stage contract and claims management.
• Provide strategic and contractual advice on disputes and changes.

Skills

Risk management

Stakeholder communication

Analytical skills

Negotiation skills

Process mapping

Education

Bachelor’s degree in construction management or related field

Graduate degree preferred

Tools

ARM

Predict

Tableau

Job description

Turner & Townsend seeks an Associate Director of Risk Management to lead risk services for key client accounts and grow risk management offerings across the business.

Responsibilities include threat/opportunity cost profiling, risk reporting, quantitative risk assessment, and end-to-end risk management across multiple projects. Strong leadership, client management, and contract knowledge are essential.