Risk - Associate Director

Currie & Brown, a global leader in construction and physical asset management consultancy, is growing its Risk Advisory Services team and is looking for an experienced Project Risk professional to support major programmes and projects across London and the wider UK.

The role – what is it we would like you to do?

You will be leading commissions and interventions with globally recognised clients and on high profile nationally significant projects, making meaningful positive change to major projects and organisations. You will have a leadership role growing talent across the global network and utilising local and international individuals to deliver work wherever our clients need it. Matrixing with our sustainability, life cycle costing, healthcare, and net zero carbon teams, we work a diverse and ever-growing range of industries to promote global societal benefits. Leveraging that broad exposure to mature and emerging industries our ideal candidate will have a desire to investigate and develop a risk service offering in speciality area of their own choice.

As an Associate Director your core duties will involve:

• Be the front face of risk management activities for clients organisations.
• Create and deploy innovative solutions for organisations to understand and control uncertainties in their project or operational environment.
• Undertake quantitative analysis for healthy or distressed projects at all project life cycle stages.
• Use your analysis and extensive background experience to guide senior leaders in making considered, sensible changes to their projects or organisational approach to risk, issues and change management.
• Be part of multiple project controls environments or PMO’s and help steer their risk management maturity growth.
• Contribute towards internal and external training and staff development.
• Collaborate on business development in a broad range of local and international project opportunities.

What skills and attributes are we looking for from you:

• Extensive experience in project environments ideally in major programmes and or infrastructure developments.
• A relevant professional qualification is required
• Quantitative Cost and schedule risk analysis modelling (QSRA’s and QCRA’s).
• History of developing and deploying training materials in risk & value mgmt, sustainability, project management, built environment, carbon evaluation or a comparable specialised field.
• Interest in developing new business through creation of new tools and services or tapping into new industry sectors locally or abroad.
• Ability to work independently and/or in a close knit team and self-manage workloads.

What You’ll Get in Return:

• Comprehensive benefits package, including private medical insurance and enhanced pension
• 25 days’ holiday (rising to 27 after 5 years), plus option to buy additional leave
• Car allowance
• Flexible and hybrid working arrangements
• £400 annual healthy living subsidy
• Interest-free season ticket loan
• Paid professional subscriptions