Hybrid Risk Manager

at Leidos

• Job title: Risk Manager
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Junior
• Salary: £44,700 - £57,300 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Fareham, United Kingdom

About the role

• Risk Manager responsible for managing risks across internal and customer joint risk registers for complex programmes at Leidos. Leading risk workshops, assessments, and ensuring risk insights are clearly communicated.

Responsibilities

• 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 Programme’s risk management framework, tools, and standards.
• Support integration of risk management with schedule, change, and dependency management processes.

Requirements

• 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.

Benefits

• 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