Risk Manager

Risk Manager

Location: This is a Hybrid role. Whiteley Hampshire

Clearance Required: This role will require attainment and maintenance of SC clearance

Leidos is seeking a proactive and experienced Risk Manager to join the Programme Management Office (PMO) within a major complex and multidisciplinary programme. This role will be responsible for managing risks across both internal workstreams and the joint risk register maintained collaboratively with our customer.

The Risk Manager will play a critical role in ensuring that risks are identified early assessed thoroughly and managed effectively enabling confident decisionmaking and delivery assurance across the programme.

The role:

• Manage a joint risk register with the customer ensuring alignment of risk descriptions assessments owners and mitigations.
• Lead the management of internal programme risks ensuring consistency of approach across all workstreams.
• Work proactively with stakeholders at all levels to identify emerging risks and ensure early escalation.
• Facilitate risk workshops assessments and deep dives to support risk identification and mitigation planning.
• Oversee risk burndown plans monitoring progress of mitigations and ensuring actions are implemented effectively.
• Produce clear insightful risk reporting and analysis for programme leadership and customer stakeholders.
• Maintain and continually improve the Programmes risk management framework tools and standards.
• Support integration of risk management with schedule change and dependency management processes.

What does Leidos need from me

• Strong experience in risk management within complex programmes ideally within a Systems Integrator environment.
• Excellent understanding of qualitative and quantitative risk assessment techniques.
• Proven ability to work across diverse stakeholder groups including customer counterparts to build a shared view of risk.
• Skilled facilitator comfortable leading risk workshops and challenging assumptions constructively.
• Strong communication and analytical skills with the ability to present risk insights clearly to senior audiences.
• Familiarity with PMO and programme governance frameworks.
• Proficient in risk management tools and standard project management applications.

What we do for you:
At Leidos we are PASSIONATE about customer success UNITED as a team and INSPIRED to make a difference. We offer meaningful and engaging careers a collaborative culture and support for your career goals all while nurturing a healthy work-life balance.

We provide an employment package that attracts develops and retains only the best in talent. Our reward scheme includes:

Contributory Pension Scheme
Private Medical Insurance
33 days Annual Leave (including public and privilege holidays)
Access to Flexible benefits (including life assurance health schemes gym memberships annual buy and sell holidays and a cycle to work scheme and much more!)
Flexi-Time Working

Commitment to Diversity:

We welcome applications from every part of the community and are committed to a truly diverse and inclusive culture. We foster a sense of belonging welcoming all perspectives and contributions and providing equal access to opportunities and resources for everyone. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages please let us know and we will respond in a way that best fits your needs.

Who We Are:

Leidos UK and Europe we work to make the world safer healthier and more efficient through technology engineering and science.

Leidos is a growing company delivering innovative technology and solutions focused on safeguarding critical capabilities and transformation in frontline services our work in the United Kingdom includes addressing some of the most complex problems in defence healthcare government safety and security and transportation.

What Makes Us Different:

Purpose: you can use your passion and abilities at Leidos to keep the people you care about safe. We are at the forefront of machine learning AI cyber security and solutions. Using your skills in the technology frontline by helping to build a safer world. You can inspire change.

Collaboration: having flexibility to do your job is one of our core benefits enabling you to become part of our extraordinary team. We have been empowering our people to work flexibly for years. Whether you work from home the office or on customer sites we will give you the digital tools and the flexibility to work smarter and align your needs and ours.

People: Leidos empowers people from every background to be themselves and gives you the tools to learn new skills by enabling growth whilst developing. We believe that extraordinary people need opportunities to grow to be inspired and to inspire others. At Leidos we invest in technical academies career rotations and a career development plans that enhance your future.

If youre looking for comfort keep scrolling. At Leidos we outthink outbuild and outpace the status quo because the mission demands it. Were not hiring followers. Were recruiting the ones who disrupt provoke and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. Were already at step 30 and moving faster than anyone else dares.

Original Posting:

Pay Range:

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job education experience knowledge skills and abilities as well as internal equity alignment with market data applicable bargaining agreement (if any) or other law.