Job Description

Risk Manager - Data Centre Portfolio

Department: EMEA Consultancy - Data Centre

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Remote UK

🚀 Join Soben at a Pivotal Moment


Soben is an award-winning construction consultancy with bold ambitions and a clear trajectory for growth. Since launching in 2011, we’ve built a reputation for technical excellence, client focus, and delivery certainty. Now, we’re entering a transformative new chapter. In March 2025, Soben became part of Accenture’s Infrastructure and Capital Projects practice, within its Industry X division. This strategic acquisition combines our deep expertise in cost and commercial management with Accenture’s global scale and digital innovation.For our team, this unlocks a wealth of opportunity: 🌐 Access to world-class resources and technology, enhancing how we deliver capital projects🏗️ Involvement in high-profile programmes across sectors such as data centres, energy, and pharmaceuticals📈 Career development at scale, with exposure to international clients and cutting-edge project environments💡 A platform for innovation, as we continue to challenge traditional consultancy models and lead digital transformation About the opportunity We are looking for an experienced Risk Manager to join our team. The successful candidate will support the delivery of a large, complex EMEA data centre portfolio, providing structured, decision‑focused risk management across multiple projects.

Key Responsibilities

Project & Programme Risk Management

• Lead and maintain project and programme processes in line with agreed frameworks and systems.
• Facilitate structured risk identification and review workshops across development, design and construction phases.
• Monitor emerging risks, closures and escalations against agreed risk tolerances.

Quantitative Risk Analysis & Decision Support

• Support and deliver Quantitative Risk Analysis (QRA) to inform contingency setting and confidence levels.
• Translate qualitative risks into quantitative inputs and articulate key risk drivers, sensitivities and assumptions.
• Present QRA outputs in a clear, decision‑ready format for senior stakeholders.

Governance, Reporting & Assurance

• Support portfolio and project risk governance forums, including periodic risk reviews.
• Produce concise executive risk summaries highlighting top risks, trends and changes in exposure.
• Support formal risk acceptance and approval processes, ensuring clear audit trails and accountability.
• Ensure alignment between risk registers, cost plans, schedules and commercial assumptions.

Stakeholder Engagement & Integration

• Work closely with project managers, commercial managers, planners, designers and contractors.
• Act as a trusted advisor, embedding risk‑based thinking into project and governance decisions.
• Promote a consistent, proportionate risk culture across the EMEA portfolio.

Continuous Improvement

• Analyse risk outcomes and mitigation performance to identify themes and improvement opportunities.
• Translate lessons learned into strengthened preventative controls and improved risk processes.
• Contribute to the evolution of risk management guidance, tools, and training across the portfolio.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

Essential

• Experience in Project & Programme Risk Management on complex capital projects.
• Strong facilitation skills and ability to engage with senior technical and commercial stakeholders.
• Understanding of qualitative and quantitative risk analysis techniques.
• Ability to structure complex uncertainty into clear, actionable risk insights.
• Comfortable managing multiple priorities across a fast‑paced, multi‑project delivery environment.

Desirable

• Experience in data centres, mission‑critical or complex infrastructure delivery.
• Exposure to cost estimating, scheduling and contingency‑setting processes.
• Experience working across international EMEA programmes.
  
  

Benefits

About life at Soben
We’re on a mission to rewrite the rules.
We’re a diverse team of professionals who consider our work a vocation, not just a job. This sense of purpose and affinity for what we do is what fuels our ambition, driving us to keep learning and seeking new challenges. Inclusion is at the heart of our company’s culture. We’re proud of our unique personality, and we know that our diverse team brings a wealth of perspectives that enrich our work.

Grow with us
Our people are our greatest asset, so you’ll get ongoing training and personal development to help you flourish, building a long-term and successful career with us. We’re small but mighty – you’ll have opportunities to progress quickly and be trusted with responsibilities you could only dream of in a larger organization, including the chance to work on some of the industry's most exciting projects
Our Leadership Principles
Soben’s Leadership Principles are at the heart of our culture. They guide how we engage with each other and with our clients, and how we help our talented employees flourish in their careers.

1. We always deliver on our promises, no matter how small
2. We are driven to solve our clients’ problems as if paying our rent or mortgage depends on it
3. We have a bias for action. Actions make things happen
4. We employ the best people who are ambitious, hardworking, humble, and open to feedback. We empower them to “proceed until apprehended”
5. We have a business owner mentality to cost management
6. We are open, honest, and direct in our communications
7. We have a growth mindset
8. We reinvest our profits to create a sustainable business for the long term

About us


Soben is an award-winning construction consultancy with bold ambitions and a clear trajectory for growth. Since launching in 2011, we’ve built a reputation for technical excellence, client focus, and delivery certainty. Now, we’re entering a transformative new chapter.

If you’re ready to play a key role in delivering exceptional consultancy services across the EMEA region, and want to grow your career in a supportive, dynamic, and high-impact environment, we’d love to hear from you.