Job title: Risk Management Specialist
Location: - Glasgow (hybrid working arrangement – 3 days per week on site)
Are you an experienced Risk Management professional looking for your next high-profile Risk Management role?
We have a fantastic opportunity for a Risk Management Specialist to join our Optronics and Missile Electronics (OME) UK team in Glasgow.
What the role has to offer:
- Full representation and accountability for Risk Management for OME in the UK from a Bid and Project Management perspective.
- An opportunity to develop and shape risk management team within the Project/Bid Management function.
- Hybrid working (3 days in the office / 2 days from home)
Core Benefits:
On offer is a competitive salary and benefits package, which includes;
- Performance-related bonus
- Half day every Friday, usually finishing around 13:00pm
- 28 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) plus opportunity to buy up to 40 hours/year (pro rata)
- 24 hours volunteering paid for
- Private healthcare (grade dependent)
- Pension scheme
- Life cover
- 24/7 Employee Assistance Program and access to mental wellbeing app
- Employee discount shopping schemes on major brands and retailers
- Gym membership discounts
Key responsibilities:
- Be a focal point /subject matter expert (SME) for Risk & Opportunity Management
- Ensure that local risk & opportunity management processes (RPMO) are generated, maintained, deployed & adhered to (& align with corporate processes)
- Ensure that regular formal R&O reviews are carried out across the programme to sentence risks and retirements.
- Ensure that all risks & opportunities are identified, reported, managed and controlled at an appropriate level and quality using KPI’s for quality.
- Manage the pre and post contingency values in the risk toolset through coordination with finance and project control change processes
- Co-ordinate the compilation of R&O management reports for both internal & external reporting & reviews
- Perform / Co-ordinate both schedule & cost risk analysis (SRA & CRA) quarterly and on demand for significant changes
- Prepare project risk & opportunity reports to support formal programme reviews.
- Manage Overall Risk Exposure – producing relevant outputs to support decision making and Senior Management / Customer briefings
- Develop, deploy and improve standards (governance, processes, methods and tools) for programme and bids.
About you:
- Experience in a standalone Risk Management role, providing an effective Risk Management service in a complex multiple project delivery environment (and within large-scale complex systems).
- Experience that demonstrates a practical knowledge of the full business lifecycle management, including capture, qualification and developing capture plans and winning strategies.
- Experience of client and stakeholder management in a complex, multi-disciplinary, multi-site project management context.
Security Clearance statement:
Due to the nature of the work that we do at Thales, many of our roles are subject to security restrictions. This role requires you to be a UK National and achieve Security Clearance (SC) without any caveats. It would be advantageous if currently held, however, if not currently held, it is a requirement that the successful applicant undergo, achieve, and maintain SC Clearance prior to commencing employment. If approved by the MOD, a dual national from a Non-ITAR country may be considered. Please visit the UKSV website for further guidance.
To be eligible for full SC, you generally need to have resided in the UK for the last 5 years. In some circumstances, a minimum of 3 years’ residence in the UK over the last 5 years may be accepted, with additional overseas checks.