Job Title: Group Head of Risk & Resilience

Global Grade: GG15

Location: UK Selected Sites - Farnborough, Malvern, Boscombe Down, Portsmouth

Role Type: Permanent – Full Time

Role ID: 19791

Role Purpose

The Group Head of Risk and Resilience is responsible for developing and delivering an integrated Risk Management System across QinetiQ, ensuring seamlessly connectivity between project and enterprise risk frameworks. The role leverages expert subject matter knowledge to develop processes and competence across management teams, enabling the effective management of risk at all levels. The role is a key advisor to senior management levels, producing high quality measures and reports up to and including board level, to support the flow of risk appetite and ownership. The role drives the highest standards of process and behaviour, to enable the business to operate a safe, right first-time approach.

Key Accountabilities

• Own the risk strategy for QinetiQ, working to deploy board risk appetites and Group strategy goals into practical risk management actions
• Lead, embed and develop an end-to-end risk management process across the Group, unifying project, enterprise and strategic risks into a clearly owned hierarchy
• Working with the People function and senior levels, enable the management of risk at all levels in the organisation, developing a strong risk culture and competence at all levels
• Provide suitable clear strategic risk reporting to executives and the board, to enable effective decision making
• Lead the design and deployment of suitable resilience frameworks, with support capabilities in alignment to businesses and functions to minimise the impact of disruptive events
• Define, oversee and ensure a suitable business continuity plan structure across the Group, to ensure incident response is clear, managed and reported effectively
• Develop and operate risk performance indicators that identify exposures and inform management decisions to mitigate
• Using appropriate tools and people networks, provide a robust horizon scanning view of strategic risks to the business
• Working with the People function, Define, develop and embed suitable training on risk and business continuity across the Group.
  

Key Capabilities/Knowledge

• Strong leadership skills, with a proven track record of driving positive change across multiple countries, sites with a mix of services and products.
• Proven track record of delivering a culture of quality and continuous improvement across a range of environments (offices, workshops, labs, etc.).
• A positive and encouraging attitude to challenges, enabling the motivation of direct and indirect teams to achieve goals
• Excellent interpersonal communication in both verbal and written forms, at all levels from operational staff up to and including board level
• A good working knowledge of applicable regulation and associated legislation.
• A pragmatic thinker, able to identify both process improvement opportunities and where to apply flexibility/robustness to deliver outcomes.
• A strong ‘people person’, with the ability to work with and influence many different people.
• Ability to challenge and question people, process and systems in a direct but non-offensive and tactful manner
  

Experience & Qualifications

• At least 10 years’ experience at a leadership level, leading risk in a technical environment
• Professional experience of delivering risk frameworks in complex organisations with multiple jurisdictions and domains
• Appropriately aligned technical qualifications (MIRM) desirable

Why Join QinetiQ?

As we continue to grow into new markets around the world, there’s never been a more exciting time to join QinetiQ. The formula for success is our appetite for innovation and having the courage to take on a wide variety of complex challenges.

As a QinetiQ employee, you’ll experience a unique working environment where teams from different backgrounds, disciplines and experience enjoy collaborating widely and openly as we undertake this exciting and rewarding journey. Through effective teamwork, and pulling together, you’ll get to experience what happens when we all share different perspectives, blend disciplines, and link technologies; constantly discovering new ways of solving complex problems in a diverse and inclusive environment where you can be authentic, feel valued and realise your full potential. Visit our website to read more about our diverse and inclusive workplace culture. www.qinetiq.com/en/careers/life-at-qinetiq

Our Benefits

• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Competitive holiday allowance, with the option to purchase additional days
• Options to join Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance
• Employee discount portal: Personal Accident Insurance, Travel Insurance, Restaurants, Cinema Tickets and much more
• We are proud to support the Armed Forces community by honouring the Armed Forces Covenant and maintaining our Gold Award standard in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme
• Volunteering Opportunities - helping charities and local community

Our Recruitment Process:

We want to make sure that our recruitment process is as inclusive as possible and we aspire to bring out the best in our candidates by creating an environment where everyone feels value, heard and supported. If you have a disability or health condition that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your Recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Many roles in QinetiQ are subject to national security vetting being completed, applicants who already hold the appropriate level of vetting may be able to transfer it upon appointment. A number of roles are also subject to additional restrictions, which mean factors such as nationality or previous nationalities may affect the roles that you can be employed in.

Please note that all applicants for this role must be eligible for SC clearance, as a minimum.

UKSV National Security Vetting Solution: guidance for applicants - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)