Risk Manager

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Aerospace
The Role
Manage enterprise risk and opportunity processes across Airbus projects and bids. Responsibilities include planning and executing risk activities, leading identification workshops, assessing impacts and benefits, assigning ownership, tracking mitigation actions, advising management on reporting quality and financial-reporting reliability, and ensuring compliance with risk procedures. The role also supports project governance through scheduling, risk analysis, earned value, and monitoring throughout the project lifecycle.
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Job Description:

SECURITY CLEARANCE: Eligibility to gain UK SC Security Clearance 

TRAVEL REQUIRED: UK travel - several times a month

LOCATION: Portsmouth

TYPE: Full time

WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU

  • Financial Reward: Competitive salary, annual profit share, contributory pension, share options, car leasing scheme, free onsite parking, season ticket loan, tax-free technology scheme, discounted shopping and much more

  • Work / Life Balance: 37 hour week, flexible working around core hours, hybrid working, up to 2 additional days per month as TOIL. There are no core hours on Friday afternoons. Employees may use this flexibility at their discretion, provided they fulfil their contractual working hours and meet business needs (such as urgent deadlines or client requirements)

  • Personal Development: Personalised development plan, Airbus Leadership University and unlimited access to 10,000+ E-learning courses, internal mobility including international opportunities

  • Health & Wellbeing: Wellbeing benefits (including 24/7 online GP and mental health support), Employee Assistance Programme, discounted family health / dental insurance / eye tests, cycle-to-work scheme, on-site canteen and coffee shop, lunchtime pilates

  • Family and Caregiving: Life assurance, enhanced pay for parental leave (23 weeks at 100% pay), adoption / shared parental / caregiving leave

  • Inclusive Environment: Wellbeing room, Multi-faith room, Employee Representative Groups (Gender, LGBTQ+, International, Generational, Disability, Social & Cultural Diversity, Neurodiversity) 

ABOUT THE ROLE 

Are you an inquisitive Risk and Opportunity Manager? Passionate about managing, communicating, reporting and monitoring Risk changes? Looking for a role where your work truly has an impact? Wanting to join a team with different levels of experience who are welcoming, supportive and encourage knowledge sharing? Then we might have the role for you!

We are looking for a Risk and Opportunity Manager to work closely with a PMO team supporting projects and bids throughout their lifecycle - Initiation, plan, maintain, execute and closing

HOW YOU WILL CONTRIBUTE TO THE TEAM 

  •  Work alongside Risk and Opportunity Management (ROM) stakeholders and execute ROM process activities. Establish the context and prepare the ROM plan. Promote an anticipation and ROM-oriented mind-set

  • Conducting risk identification workshops and helping assess the impacts or potential benefits to the business objectives

  • Clarify accountabilities (especially: R/O owner, R/O response action owner),

  • Development and close follow-up of successful execution of risk treatment actions

  • Provide assurance /advice to management regarding the achievement of: Reliability of financial reporting; Transparency and quality of risk & opportunity monitoring and reporting 

  • Ensure compliance with risk & opportunity rules, regulations and procedures

ABOUT YOU

  • Knowledge and experience of Enterprise Risk solutions and Programme Governance frameworks

  • Programme/Project/Risk Management skills and track record in complex technical projects including scheduling, Risks logic checking, earned value and risk

  • A clear understanding of the values and limitations of qualitative and quantitative risk analyses

  • Proficient user of risk analysis software, such as Active Risk Manager, Primavera Risk Analysis or @Risk software

  • Proficient user of Experience in using scheduling software such as Primavera P6 and MS Project

Not a 100% match? No worries! Airbus supports your personal growth with customised development solutions.

HOW WE CAN SUPPORT YOU

Many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time. Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you need and we’ll always do our best to accommodate your request. 

Please let us know if you need us to make any adjustments for the selection process – you can share this with your Talent Acquisition Partner if you are invited to interview. Examples may include (but not exclusive to) accessible facilities; auxiliary aids; room layout, etc. Any information disclosed will be treated in the strictest confidence.

As a Disability Confident Employer, Airbus UK will offer an interview to any applicant that considers themselves to have a disability or long-term condition and meets the minimum criteria of the role (as set out in the job advert). To ‘opt in’, just select the option during your application submission and our Talent Acquisition team will contact you.

This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company’s success, reputation and sustainable growth.

Company:

AIRBUS Defence and Space Limited

Employment Type:

Permanent

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Experience Level:

Professional

Job Family:

Enterprise Risk & Opportunity Management

By submitting your CV or application you are consenting to Airbus using and storing information about you for monitoring purposes relating to your application or future employment. This information will only be used by Airbus.
Airbus is committed to achieving workforce diversity and creating an inclusive working environment. We welcome all applications irrespective of social and cultural background, age, gender, disability, sexual orientation or religious belief.

Airbus is, and always has been, committed to equal opportunities for all. As such, we will never ask for any type of monetary exchange in the frame of a recruitment process. Any impersonation of Airbus to do so should be reported to [email protected].

At Airbus, we support you to work, connect and collaborate more easily and flexibly. Wherever possible, we foster flexible working arrangements to stimulate innovative thinking.

Skills Required

  • Knowledge and experience of enterprise risk solutions and programme governance frameworks
  • Programme, project, and risk management experience in complex technical projects
  • Experience with scheduling, risk logic checking, earned value, and risk management
  • Understanding of qualitative and quantitative risk analysis, including its values and limitations
  • Proficiency with risk analysis software such as Active Risk Manager, Primavera Risk Analysis, or @Risk
  • Proficiency with scheduling software such as Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project
  • Eligibility to gain UK SC Security Clearance

Airbus Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Airbus and has not been reviewed or approved by Airbus.

  • Healthcare Strength Healthcare coverage is positioned as comprehensive in several locations, including medical, dental, and vision options available from day one in the U.S. Access to life insurance, disability coverage, and employee assistance/wellbeing support adds breadth to the health offering.
  • Retirement Support Retirement support is framed as a meaningful part of the package through plans such as a 401(k) with company matching in the U.S. These programs strengthen long-term financial security beyond base wages.
  • Leave & Time Off Breadth Time-off provisions are described as generous in some settings, including vacation availability from day one and extended holiday coverage. Flexible working arrangements and hybrid options further increase the perceived value of time-related benefits.

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The Company
HQ: Toulouse
52,655 Employees
Year Founded: 2014

What We Do

Airbus is a global leader in aeronautics, space and related services. In 2020, it generated revenues of €49.9 billion and employed a workforce of around 130,000. Airbus offers the most comprehensive range of passenger airliners. Airbus is also a European leader providing tanker, combat, transport and mission aircraft, as well as one of the world’s leading space companies. In helicopters, Airbus provides the most efficient civil and military rotorcraft solutions worldwide. Airbus is an international pioneer in the aerospace industry and a leader in designing, manufacturing and delivering aerospace products, services and solutions to customers on a global scale. We believe that it’s not just what we make, but how we make it that counts; promoting responsible, sustainable and inclusive business practices and acting with integrity. Our people work with passion and determination to make the world a more connected, safer and smarter place, on the ground, in the sky and in space.

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