Senior Risk Manager, -Scale Data Center Projects

Risk Manager (Large-scale Data Center Project)

We are seeking an accomplished and highly motivated Risk Manager to lead risk management activities for a large-scale data center project in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This client-facing role requires strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills, with a focus on identifying, assessing, monitoring, and mitigating project risks throughout the full project lifecycle.

The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of construction risk management, project controls, schedule and cost risk analysis, and risk reporting within complex construction, infrastructure, or mission-critical projects. You will play a key role in supporting project leadership, technical teams, and client stakeholders by maintaining a proactive risk management framework, ensuring risks are properly captured, analyzed, escalated, and managed in alignment with project objectives.

• Lead the implementation and management of the project risk management process, ensuring alignment with client requirements, internal standards, and industry best practices.
• Develop, maintain, and update the project risk register, ensuring all risks, opportunities, mitigation actions, owners, due dates, and statuses are accurately updated.
• Facilitate risk identification workshops and regular risk review meetings with project managers, discipline leads, contractors, consultants, and client representatives.
• Assess project risks related to scope, cost, schedule, procurement, design, construction, commissioning, quality, safety, and stakeholder interfaces.
• Perform qualitative and quantitative risk assessments to evaluate probability, impact, exposure, and priority of identified risks.
• Ensure integration of local context, requirements, and regulations into the project risk management framework and process.
• Support schedule and cost risk analysis activities, including risk modeling, scenario analysis, and development of mitigation strategies.
• Monitor key project risks and early warning indicators, escalating critical risks to project leadership and recommending corrective or preventive actions.
• Prepare and present regular risk reports, dashboards, trend analysis, and executive summaries for client and senior leadership review.
• Coordinate with planning, cost control, commercial, procurement, design, construction, and commissioning teams to ensure risk impacts are properly reflected in project controls reporting.
• Track mitigation actions and follow up with risk owners to ensure timely closure or reduction of risk exposure.
• Support change management, claims avoidance, delay analysis, and lessons learned activities by providing risk‑related input and documentation.
• Review contractor risk submissions, risk registers, mitigation plans, and progress updates to ensure consistency with overall project requirements.
• Promote a proactive risk culture across the project team by improving risk awareness, accountability, and timely communication.
• Contribute to the development of risk management procedures, templates, reports, and governance processes.

Required qualifications:

• 15+ years of experience in risk management, project controls, project management, or construction management within large-scale construction, infrastructure, or mission‑critical projects.
• Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Civil Engineering, Engineering Management, Quantity Surveying, Business, or a related technical field.
• Prior experience working on data centers, mission‑critical, industrial, infrastructure, or large‑scale building projects.
• Strong knowledge of project risk management principles, including risk identification, assessment, mitigation planning, monitoring, escalation, and reporting.
• Experience developing and maintaining project risk registers, mitigation trackers, risk dashboards, and executive‑level risk reports.
• Strong understanding of the relationship between risk, cost, schedule, procurement, commercial management, and project delivery.
• Ability to facilitate risk workshops and engage effectively with multidisciplinary project teams, contractors, consultants, and client representatives.
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