Lead Risk & Opportunity Manager
- LocationAmpthill, GBR
- Work typeHybrid
- Posted4 November 2026
- SourceLockheed Martin's careers page (Eightfold)
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About the role
We’re looking for a talented Risk & Opportunity Manager to join our team based from our Advanced Manufacturing Facility in Ampthill, Bedfordshire.
This role benefits from our 4xFlex working pattern, offering a 4-day working week (Monday–Thursday) alongside hybrid working . You’ll work onsite Monday and Tuesday, with Wednesday and Thursday from home, subject to business needs.
As our Risk & Opportunity Manager you will provide support to either a single complex Programme or across a number of Projects within a business area. You will work directly with Project teams in the development & maintenance of Risk & Opportunity registers spanning the full lifecycle.
The Risk and Opportunity register contains the known Cost, Schedule and Technical Risk. The successful applicant will work with the Programme team to develop a quantitative and qualitative analysis of each Risk, mitigation plans to reduce each risk or enhance each Opportunity.
In conjunction with the Master Planner/ Scheduler the Risk & Opportunity Manager will use the approved tool to develop a Monte Carlo analysis of the programme. You will publish the results of the Schedule & Cost Risk Analysis (SRS / CRA) in accordance with contract deliverable requirements.
Duties / Responsibilities:
- Develop the Risk and Opportunity register, complete with quantitative and qualitative impacts and mitigation plans.
- Perform ongoing Monte Carlo Schedule & Cost Risk Analysis.
- Facilitate Risk and Opportunity meetings with Programme teams, including governance of the Risk & Opportunity Management process.
- Assist in the development of cohesive and logical mitigation plans.
- Maintain current status of the Risk and Opportunity Register.
- Production of Project Risk and Opportunity Reporting.
Required skills, qualifications and experience
- Proven experience in a Risk Management role
- Excellent working knowledge of and experience in industry standard risk tools, such as ARM , Acumen Risk and Predict .
- Risk planning in MoD or Defence related programmes and be able to understand and work with a technical and skill-diverse team.
- Analyse schedules for risk and opportunity and clearly communicate to programme manager and leads.
- Able to communicate with a wide range of people including internal senior management and project team members, subcontractors and suppliers through to high level customer representatives.
- Proven working in fast-paced environment and be agile and adapt to changing priorities
- Team player with excellent stakeholder management skills
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