Risk & Opportunity Manager

This job is brought to you by Jobs/Redefined, the UK's leading over-50s age inclusive jobs board. Job Description Base salary: £38550pa to c.£45350pa depending on skills and experience. In addition, we offer a flexible benefits fund of 15% which is paid on top of the base salary and is fully pensionable, as well as a range of competitive benefits. HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential. This means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish, and providing personal and professional development opportunities. As the Risk & Opportunity Manager, you will be responsible for supporting the management of strategic enterprise risk & opportunity, developing risk & opportunity management policies, processes, and standards, and ensuring their effective execution across the organisation. The role involves proactively monitoring, identifying, and assessing new opportunities that HS2 can exploit to promote value creation. You will also help the business gain an integrated view of quantified risk & opportunities, suggesting risk management and mitigation strategies to leadership. About the role: Develop and implement comprehensive risk management and mitigation policies, processes, and standards. Identify and assess key value drivers within the organisation. Ensure the consistent and effective application of risk management policies and processes across the programme. Measure and monitor the creation and delivery of opportunities within the organisation. Support the evaluation and reporting of risks to inform decision-making. Provide guidance and advice on risk management to development and delivery areas. Quantitatively analyse the risk exposure of threats, opportunities, and issues. Provide a reliable assessment of the overall programme risk exposure. Actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all work. About you: Skills: Prioritisation - able to manage and plan multiple workstreams. Decision Quality - Gathering and synthesising information for decision makers. Communication - conveying risk & opportunity concepts clearly. Ability to assimilate large volumes of detail. Guidance for junior team members. Adhere to approved processes and provide feedback for continuous improvement. Develop, monitor and report appropriate risk & opportunity management actions. Knowledge: Knowledge of Risk and Opportunity Management processes. Understanding of quantitative and qualitative assessment of complex work. Type of Experience: Experience working independently and as part of a team. Experience reporting to internal stakeholders on risk management. Experience enacting approved systems and processes. Risk Management qualification such as IRM or APM. Experience in project/programme risk & opportunity management. The post-holder is expected to behave at all times in a manner consistent with the HS2 values of Safety, Leadership, Integrity, and Respect. As HS2 Ltd do not hold a sponsorship license from the Home Office, we are not able to provide sponsorship to any applicant. Applicants must already have the Right to Work in the UK at the time of application. Any offers made to applicants will be subject to satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks. We perform the first assessment of suitability for a role based solely on the information in your CV. In an effort to create a more diverse workforce, your CV will be anonymised during the first stage of the application review. About Us High Speed 2 (HS2 Ltd) will be the UK's new high-speed rail network, improving capacity and shortening journey times. HS2 Ltd aims to be a leader in EDI practice by creating a safe & inclusive working environment for all our staff. HS2 Ltd is a safety-critical organisation. Employees are required to ensure reasonable care of their own and others' health and safety.

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