Risk Manager

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Job Description:

Salary Range: £  59,400 - £65,000
Leonardo UK operates a grade-based salary framework with broad bands. The salary range shown reflects the approved grade band for this role, or a narrower hiring range published within that band, and is benchmarked against the external market. Exceptions above the standard range are managed through governance controls to protect internal equity.
Your Impact
Leonardo is looking for a Risk Manager to support the effective implementation and governance of the Project Risk Management process within a LOB within the Electronics Division. The Risk Manager will act as the local subject matter expert for the Leonardo Risk Management framework, providing independent oversight, assurance, governance and constructive challenge to Integrated Project Teams (IPTs).
The role works independently while maintaining strong relationships with delivery teams, ensuring risk management processes is applied consistently, proportionately and in line with corporate policy and risk appetite. Support will be provided across the full project lifecycle, from bid through to execution.
The role is based at Basildon / Southampton, with occasional travel to other Leonardo UK sites and possibly occasional travel to Italy as required.
The Risk Manager will champion a strong risk intelligent culture across the sites, providing expert advice, governance oversight, and assurance to IPTs, including:
Providing independent oversight and constructive challenge to ensure compliance with risk management policies, standards, and governance requirements
Contribute to the definition, monitoring and continuous improvement of the RM Framework and oversee the implementation of the risk management process
Supporting IPTs to identify, assess and manage risks and opportunities, ensuring clarity, consistency, and quality of risk information.
Advising on appropriate risk treatment and mitigation strategies
Analysing post-treatment residual risk using Monte Carlo analysis, supporting informed decision-making and confidence in project forecasts
Supporting contingency setting, justification, and ongoing management, ensuring alignment to risk exposure and risk appetite and advising when escalation is required
Producing risk reports, ensuring timely, accurate and decision-focused insight in line with reporting cycles
Aggregating/Automating and analysing risk trends and AI predictive analysis across projects, identifying systemic issues, and driving continuous improvement activity
Mentoring and support to Project Risk Managers
Analyze context, business processes (through KPIs and KRIs), risk knowledge-base, lessons learned, audit findings (internal and external) and promote structural actions by supporting the company's continuous improvement process
Analyze processes for collecting and storing risk data, including for the purpose of ensuring data quality
In addition, the role will:
Facilitate risk identification, review, and assurance workshops, providing challenge and guidance to improve risk quality and maturity.
Deliver training, coaching, and mentoring to individuals and teams to embed consistent, high-quality risk management practices.
Review and assure risk registers, assumptions, quantification, and mitigation plans to ensure completeness and robustness.
Support governance forums and senior stakeholders with clear, evidence-based risk insight.
Assist the IPTs and senior management with ad hoc requests, including review of internal documentation and risk management deliverables for customer submission.
Support assurance activities and provide input to internal reviews or audits as required.
What You'll Bring:
- Degree in a technical or business subject
- Strong knowledge of enterprise and project risk management frameworks
and standards
- Highly numerate with experience of statistical and financial modelling (e.g. competence in quantitative risk analysis, including Monte Carlo techniques)
- Sound understanding of contingency setting and management aligned to risk exposure.
- Experience translating complex risk information into clear, decision-focused…