Senior Risk Manager

About the Role

Are you ready to be part of the future? At QinetiQ, we’re not just imagining tomorrow, we are creating it. From cutting-edge defence technology to ground-breaking innovations, our mission is to empower and protect lives. Join us as a Senior Risk Manager at our Farnborough site, where you will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology in partnership with some of the most brilliant minds.

As a Senior Risk Manager, you will support complex projects at all stages of the project lifecycle, from bidding through to delivery. Day-to-day, you’ll develop tailored risk solutions and provide risk advice, alongside contributing to risk registers, cost and schedule risk estimates, and analyses of QinetiQ programmes.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive best practice and implementation of risk management systems to support effective project and programme delivery.
• Collaborate with project teams to develop and maintain high-quality risk registers, mitigation plans, and tailored risk management approaches.
• Analyse and report on risk data, including quantitative cost and schedule risk models, to inform decision-making.
• Advise teams on risk exposure, contingency, and the wider operational impacts of risk management strategies.
• Lead complex projects, providing solutions to complex challenges and delivering effective risk management outcomes.
• Engage stakeholders and provide risk assurance and recommendations, ensuring alignment with organisational processes and integration with project management and controls.

Essential Experience

• In-depth knowledge of risk management with an understanding of the full project lifecycle and wider understanding of project management and controls techniques, trends and tools, with in-depth knowledge of associated areas such as governance and assurance, benchmarking, data analysis and reporting, change control, cost control/reporting, and supply chain development.
• Extensive experience of working within project teams and leading on risk management.
• Experience developing and implementing new processes, standards, or plans that impact the achievement of functional results.
• Experience coaching, reviewing, and delegating work to lower-level professionals. Mentors community, supervises, and functionally manages lower-level professionals.
• Extensive experience of using project management tools such as Predict! Risk Controller and Predict! Risk Analyser.

Essential Qualifications

• Holds one of the following: APM Risk Management, IRM Certificate in Risk Management, PMI Risk Management Professional (PMI-RMP), MoR Foundation or working towards.

We value difference and we don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education. Provided you can show the required level of experience and willingness to learn, then we would like to hear from you.

This role is 37 hours per week based at our Farnborough site with a minimum average site attendance of three days per week. At our Farnborough site, exciting work takes place at our state-of-the-art facility, with high-energy laser technologies, our 5m pressurised wind tunnel which has a simulation capability that is unique in the UK, and our large research and development projects are a real hub of creativity, research, and innovation. Join our talented teams of Engineers, IT & Cyber Specialists, Project Managers, Group Functions Teams, and many more to provide future defences in the UK.

Please note that all applicants for this role must be eligible for SC clearance, as a minimum.