Risk Manager - Data Centre Portfolio

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and maintain project and programme processes in line with agreed frameworks and systems.
•  Facilitate structured risk identification and review workshops across development, design and construction phases.
• Monitor emerging risks, closures and escalations against agreed risk tolerances.

•     Support and deliver Quantitative Risk Analysis (QRA) to inform contingency setting and confidence levels.
• Translate qualitative risks into quantitative inputs and articulate key risk drivers, sensitivities and assumptions.
• Present QRA outputs in a clear, decision‑ready format for senior stakeholders.

• Support portfolio and project risk governance forums, including periodic risk reviews.
• Produce concise executive risk summaries highlighting top risks, trends and changes in exposure.
• Support formal risk acceptance and approval processes, ensuring clear audit trails and accountability.
• Ensure alignment between risk registers, cost plans, schedules and commercial assumptions.

• Work closely with project managers, commercial managers, planners, designers and contractors.
• Act as a trusted advisor, embedding risk‑based thinking into project and governance decisions.
• Promote a consistent, proportionate risk culture across the EMEA portfolio.

• Analyse risk outcomes and mitigation performance to identify themes and improvement opportunities.
• Translate lessons learned into strengthened preventative controls and improved risk processes.
• Contribute to the evolution of risk management guidance, tools, and training across the portfolio.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• Experience in Project & Programme Risk Management on complex capital projects.
• Strong facilitation skills and ability to engage with senior technical and commercial stakeholders.
• Understanding of qualitative and quantitative risk analysis techniques. 
• Ability to structure complex uncertainty into clear, actionable risk insights.
• Comfortable managing multiple priorities across a fast‑paced, multi‑project delivery environment.

• Experience in data centres, mission‑critical or complex infrastructure delivery.
• Exposure to cost estimating, scheduling and contingency‑setting processes.
• Experience working across international EMEA programmes.
  
  

Benefits

1. We always deliver on our promises, no matter how small
2. We are driven to solve our clients’ problems as if paying our rent or mortgage depends on it
3. We have a bias for action. Actions make things happen
4. We employ the best people who are ambitious, hardworking, humble, and open to feedback. We empower them to “proceed until apprehended”
5. We have a business owner mentality to cost management
6. We are open, honest, and direct in our communications
7. We have a growth mindset
8. We reinvest our profits to create a sustainable business for the long term