Senior Risk Manager📣 Job Ad

About the Role

Mace, a leader in construction and consultancy, is seeking a highly experienced Senior Risk Manager to join their team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This role is integral to a significant project, where you will be responsible for leading integrated teams and unlocking potential across all project phases. Mace combines construction expertise with consultancy to redefine the boundaries of ambition, and this position offers the opportunity to contribute to impactful projects while upholding the company's core values. As a Senior Risk Manager, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the successful and safe delivery of projects by establishing and maintaining robust risk management practices. You will champion safety, mentor junior staff, and collaborate across disciplines to embed risk management into the project lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

• Champion safety-first values, confidently applying stop-work authority and promoting wellbeing standards across the project.
• Demonstrate leadership behaviours aligned with organisational values, actively mentoring and coaching junior staff to foster their professional development.
• Implement and continuously improve risk frameworks, registers, dashboards, and reporting processes to ensure effective risk management.
• Facilitate risk workshops, reviews, and assessments to proactively identify, evaluate, and mitigate project risks.
• Collaborate effectively with project teams to integrate risk controls into project plans, schedules, and budgets.
• Ensure high-quality risk data is maintained, compliance with best practice is adhered to, and proactive monitoring of changing risk profiles is conducted.

Qualifications and Requirements

• A degree or diploma in risk management, engineering, or project management is required.
• Chartered membership or a recognised professional certification in a relevant field is preferred.
• A minimum of 10 years of risk leadership experience on major projects is essential, with a preference for experience gained in KSA or the Middle East.
• Strong expertise in utilising risk management tools and analytics is necessary.
• Proven ability in stakeholder collaboration is a key requirement for this role.

Required Skills

• Risk Management
• Leadership and Mentoring
• Coaching
• Development and Implementation of Risk Frameworks, Registers, and Dashboards
• Risk Reporting
• Facilitation of Risk Workshops, Reviews, and Assessments
• Risk Mitigation Strategies
• Ensuring Risk Data Quality
• Best Practice Compliance
• Proactive Risk Monitoring
• Risk Analytics
• Stakeholder Collaboration

Work Environment and Additional Information

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Mace is an inclusive employer and welcomes interest from a diverse range of candidates. Even if you feel you do not fulfil all the criteria, please apply as you may still be the best candidate for this role or another role within our organisation. Mace is also open to discussing part-time, flexible, and hybrid working options if suitable within the role.