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 multi-disciplinary 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 decision-making and delivery assurance across the programme. We are looking for someone who can demonstrate risk management experience linked to Programme risk.
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.
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