Senior Risk Manager
Turner & Townsend.com
Office
Riyadh, Riyadh Province, Saudi Arabia
Full Time
Company Description
Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.
Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.
Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.
We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.
Please visit our website: www.turnerandtownsend.com
Job Description
The Role
The Senior Risk Manager will interface with multiple levels and dimensions of the project team across the Engineering, Delivery etc. providing advice, direction, and assurance relative to the risk processes within the project, maintaining a close working relationship with other Function Managers, Project Controls Managers, Finance team personnel, and the Project Management, Procurement and Commercial functions. Additionally, the Risk Manager may represent the project with key stakeholders including contract partners, regulators, auditors, and investors.
Key Responsibilities
- Facilitate identification, assessment and prioritization of threats, opportunities and issues
- Maintain visibility of threat / opportunity trigger points to facilitate risk cost profiling, timely drawdown of risk budget or retirement of threat / opportunity
- Use risk data to inform investment planning
- Assist with the identification and recording of appropriate management responses which are measurable and specific, along with assessing the post mitigated positions
- Monitor overall risk exposure and assess against the remaining Risk budget
- Proactively manage the completion of management responses
- Work with contractors to assess contractor held risks and their views on client held risks that impact upon them
- Produce risk reports as required, in a timely manner, to support the effective communication of threat & opportunity status
- Conduct quantitative risk assessment (cost and schedule) to inform project contingency levels
Qualifications
- Degree qualified in a relevant discipline with a minimum of 15 + years relevant work experience or previous proven experience in a risk management environment.
- A working understanding of an integrated risk management process (risk, cost and schedule) on large progammes or projects
- Candidates are expected to have excellent communication skills (oral and written) and be genuinely committed to finding new and more effective ways of working
- APM/IRM risk certified candidates preferred
Skills and behaviors required
- Engineering or Construction based degree or equivalent experience
- Substantial experience (15+ years) in managing and motivating risk teams on major infrastructure/real estate/buildings projects and programs
- Educated to at least degree level, or equivalent training and experience
- Proven record of success in building and leading a team within Project Controls and/or Risk Management functions
- Expert and role model in the field of Quantitative Schedule Risk Analysis (QSRA) and Quantitative Cost Risk Analysis (QCRA) techniques
- Experience in the use of general computer software products (including Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Proven people manager and team leader with excellent communications skills
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Good commercial and financial awareness including good experience of commercial contracting
Additional Information
Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.
Please find out more about us at www.turnerandtownsend.com/
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Senior Risk Manager
Office
Riyadh, Riyadh Province, Saudi Arabia
Full Time
October 6, 2025