Risk Lead

About The Role We’ve an amazing new opportunity to become our Risk Lead, reporting into the Integrated Controls Manager within our Asset Portfolio Management Office (PMO). This role is essential to realizing our National Leader ambitions and requires a motivated governance and change professional with direct experience of working in a fast‑paced PMO environment. You’ll act as the risk lead within the Northumbrian Water PMO and will lead a team of risk analyst professionals in the delivery of best‑practice project and programme risk and opportunity management. Responsibilities include implementing and overseeing the risk team ethos, driving the achievement of objectives, reviewing and assuring risk and opportunity registers prepared by the project and risk analyst team, preparing risk and opportunity registers, and providing analysis of project/programme and portfolio risk across the project lifecycle. Additional duties involve delivering NEC3 framework and contract risk support in line with stakeholder requirements, collaborating with project teams, scheduling, and cost and estimation leads, reviewing contractors’ risk and opportunity registers for completeness and reasonable basis to support project scope and deliverables. You will act as the PMO & Capital Delivery Risk authority, attend and contribute to meetings and management forums on behalf of the PMO, and own the risk tools, processes and registers, along with associated guidelines for meeting forums, purpose, attendees, and materials, ensuring consistency across the delivery programme. About You We’re looking for a professional with proven experience of developing and delivering high-risk and opportunity registers in a project controls or programme management environment, and of successfully developing and deploying project baseline structure build‑up. Demonstrable knowledge of contract and procurement management standards, including NEC3 contract forms, is essential. You should have a proven track record of accurate project risk and opportunity registers, analysis, forecasting, and reporting to completion in line with targets. Experience motivating high‑performing colleagues or teams to successful outcomes, recognising the importance of training, development, safety, and wellbeing, and collaborating effectively with fellow PMO integrated function leads and supporting the Head of PMO is required. Experience with dedicated risk tools, management systems and reporting tools such as MS PowerBI, and performance dashboard development and information management to support senior‑level decision making is also required. About Asset Management & PMO The Assets Directorate understands the health of our assets, invests wisely, and maintains them to continue to provide safe, reliable, and resilient services to our customers today and in the future. We have launched an ambitious transformation programme to drive a real step change in how we deliver our capital projects. This requires the development of a high‑performing PMO to provide a central controls function delivering impactful performance reporting, estimating, scheduling, and risk management, and governance. The overarching objective is to transition from a hybrid PMO consisting of NWG staff and contractor support to an entirely in‑house model. Our Benefits Generous holiday entitlement starting at 26 days, plus bank holidays and additional time off on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve. There’s also the option to buy or sell holidays. Company pension scheme, with a double match of your contributions up to an employer contribution of 11%. Free access to local attractions. A fantastic discount scheme offering savings on days out, shopping, travel and more. Award‑winning ‘Living Well’ wellbeing support, including access to a digital GP service for you and your family members. Support with sustainable travel – salary‑sacrifice cars and a cycle‑to‑work scheme. Financial wellbeing support – community savings scheme, financial education and low‑cost loans through Salary Finance, 4 × Life Assurance and an Income Protection Scheme. Support with your development – a range of development opportunities, interest‑free qualification loans, and payment for any relevant professional body subscription. Diversity, Inclusion and Equity Here at Northumbrian, Diversity, Inclusion and Equity means bringing your full self to work. We encourage and welcome applications from all under‑represented groups, as we believe and strive for community representation within all our teams, structures and organisation. Requirements Please note this role will require a DBS to be completed prior to employment. NWG is an inclusive employer who supports the rehabilitation of offenders; however, we will not consider candidates with certain unspent convictions to maintain a safe and secure working environment for all stakeholders. About Us NWG (Northumbrian Water Group) provides water and sewerage services to 2.7 million people in the North East of England as Northumbrian Water, and to 1.5 million people in the South East of England as Essex & Suffolk Water. Our purpose at NWG is caring for the essential needs of our communities and environment, now and for generations to come. We do this by providing reliable and affordable water and wastewater services for our customers. We make a positive difference by operating efficiently and investing prudently to maintain a sustainable and resilient business. Our vision is to be the national leader in the provision of sustainable water and wastewater services. To support this vision, we have five core values which are guiding principles, defining who we are, what we do, and how we do it. #J-18808-Ljbffr