Risk Business Partner

Are you an experienced Risk Business Partner looking for your next opportunity?

We have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Risk Business Partner to join our Risk and Assurance team at Sovereign Network Group (SNG). This is a high-impact role that plays a pivotal part in safeguarding SNG's resilience, reputation and long-term sustainability. You'll lead the strategic oversight and challenge of risk across a broad business portfolio, ensuring that material risks to strategy, operations, customer outcomes and regulatory compliance are proactively identified, assessed and effectively managed.

Based from our offices in Basingstoke or Wembley
, you'll combine home and office working to ensure a positive work / life balance. There may be some occasional travel to our other offices for meetings or workshops.

Reporting into the Head of Risk, you'll operate as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, providing independent second-line assurance, delivering robust insight, foresight and evidence-based challenge to influence decision making. You'll play a crucial role in embedding a proactive risk management culture within SNG, enabling confident, informed risk-taking within appetite and strengthening enterprise-wide risk maturity and culture.

• Acting as the primary second-line risk lead for designated business areas, building strong, trusted relationships with senior leadership teams
• Partnering with internal stakeholders to embed a risk-aware culture, ensuring risk is considered in strategic planning, investment and change decisions, and that appropriate forums receive timely risk insight and challenge
• Influencing strategic planning, transformation programmes and investment decisions by ensuring risk considerations are fully embedded and aligned to organisational risk appetite
• Providing credible, independent and constructively challenging advice to senior stakeholders, balancing commercial and operational realities with risk discipline
• Identifying systemic risks, cross-cutting themes and emerging threats, influencing organisational responses and long-term resilience planning
• Driving continuous improvement in risk maturity, embedding best practice and innovative approaches across the organisation
• Ensuring consistent and effective application of the risk management framework across assigned areas, promoting strong first-line accountability.
• Contributing to high-quality, forward-looking reporting for Executive Committee, Audit & Risk Committee and Board

You should have previous experience in a similar role, with demonstrable technical knowledge and skills in enterprise risk management, including operating effectively as a second line of assurance and applying proportionate oversight and independent challenge. A background in housing is not essential but ideally you'll have experience from a large organisation with a range of risk areas to consider. You'll also have:

• Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence and engage stakeholders at all levels, providing constructive challenge and articulating clear risk opinions
• Experience in supporting the implementation of a robust risk management framework
• Clear communication skills, ensuring technical information is presented clearly and concisely
• An agile approach, confident to work successfully on multiple projects at different stages and effectively prioritise tasks
• A high level of integrity, independence and professionalism, with the ability to remain objective and evidence-led when advising and challenging
• A professional risk management qualification (e.g. IRM)
• Experience using risk, compliance or assurance tooling, and the ability to interpret data to produce insight for senior stakeholders
• Experience in designing and / or delivering risk management awareness and training programmes is desirable

Please note:

First stage interviews will be held towards the end of July.