Manager - Risk - SDU-100 - DA3
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About the Role
Qiddiya Investment Company is hiring a Risk Manager to embed and sustain the Risk Management Framework across business units. The role involves training, capability building, risk data quality, and governance readiness.
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Responsibilities
- Lead the development and rollout of a risk management training and awareness programme to strengthen organisational risk culture
- Design and deliver capability building initiatives to enhance risk literacy across business units
- Provide governance, audit readiness, and compliance support to ensure adherence to the Risk Management Framework
- Act as a central risk manager to smaller or less mature business units, providing hands on support in embedding risk practices
- Leverage expertise in insurance risk and Development risk management to integrate insurance function within the broader GRC function
- Develop and Implement Project Risk Management Plans
- Lead Risk Identification and Assessment Activities, facilitating workshops and interviews
- Establish and maintain a structured system for monitoring the quality, consistency, and completeness of risks recorded in ARM
- Engage proactively with individual business units to review and validate risk entries
- Provide guidance and coaching to business units on effective risk articulation
- Support business units in the ongoing maintenance of risk records within ARM
- Drive continuous improvement in risk data quality within ARM
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in risk management, construction management, Business Studies or other relevant field
- 8 10 years' experience in risk management including at least 5 years in mega project construction/development
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Company Overview
- Qiddiya is Saudi Arabia's future capital of entertainment, sports, and culture — a 360 km² mega project just outside Riyadh.
General Summary
- The Risk Manager role is central to SDU's mandate to embed and sustain the Risk Management Framework across all Business Units, strengthen organisational risk culture, and ensure consistent compliance with governance standards.
Essential Duties And Responsibilities
- Lead the development and rollout of a risk management training and awareness programme to strengthen organisational risk culture and improve Business wide understanding of risk principles, frameworks, and responsibilities
- Design and deliver capability building initiatives to enhance risk literacy across business units, ensuring consistent application of the Risk Management Framework and alignment with organisational risk appetite
- Provide governance, audit readiness, and compliance support to ensure adherence to the Risk Management Framework, including monitoring, reporting, and continuous improvement of control effectiveness
- Act as a central risk manager to smaller or less mature business units, providing hands on support in embedding risk practices, developing risk registers, and improving risk identification and mitigation processes
- Leverage advanced academic qualifications to contribute to the development of technical risk content, training materials, and thought leadership, elevating the overall capability of the risk management community
- Leverage expertise in insurance risk and Development risk management to integrate insurance function within the broader Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) function, ensuring alignment of insurance strategy with enterprise risk objectives and governance structures
- Develop and Implement Project Risk Management Plans. Establish and maintain risk management strategies tailored to each project stage
- Lead Risk Identification and Assessment Activities. Facilitate workshops and interviews to identify potential risks across engineering, construction, and operations in support of the smaller or less mature Business units
- Establish and maintain a structured system for monitoring the quality, consistency, and completeness of risks recorded in ARM, ensuring alignment with enterprise risk standards and governance requirements
- Engage proactively with individual business units to review and validate risk entries, ensuring that risks are clearly articulated, concise, comprehensive, and expressed in appropriate risk management terminology and meta language
- Provide guidance and coaching to business units on effective risk articulation, including risk statements, causes, impacts, controls, and mitigations to improve overall risk data integrity
- Support business units in the ongoing maintenance of risk records within ARM and, where required, directly update risk entries to ensure accuracy, consistency, and high quality data standards across the system
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in risk management, construction management, Business Studies or other relevant field.
- 8 10 years' experience in risk management including at least 5 years in mega project construction/ development.
Application Notes
- Applications closing 12 of June 2026.
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