Risk Manager

Job description

Please note, this role can be based out of our Holborn, Coventry or Manchester Store Support Centre & Home. 

As a Risk Manager you will deliver the business risk management framework, supporting management to identify and monitor risks effectively to assess them against the organisation’s risk appetite. You will develop the tools and templates, frameworks, requirements and reporting to support risk discussions across the business, as well as maintaining risk information relating to Corporate and Divisional risks, ensuring it is current and tracked, and challenge management of risk mitigation strategies. You'll support on risk workshops as required and the business’s annual disclosures relating to risk.

More about the role 

• Maintain risk dashboards, maps, KRIs and other supporting information to ensure they are current and reflect our ongoing risk conversations, assessments and other information. 
• Driving a continual risk focus in the business through supporting the Head of Risk Management and other Heads of Audit and Risk to facilitate risk workshops and meetings to help management identify, assess and manage key business risks.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with risk owners across the business. This will involve supporting owners across the business understand and monitor changing risk profiles and the impact of KRIs and risk actions. 
• Support the regulatory reporting process to develop the Principal Risks & Uncertainties disclosure for the Annual Report.
• Monitor new and emerging trends in Risk Management through external networks, assess their applicability for Sainsbury’s and embed in ways of working, as appropriate. 
• Develop our response to corporate governance requirements (particularly as prescribed by the FRC) and assess and advise on their impact on the business.
• Own and develop tools and templates, frameworks, requirements and reporting to support risk discussions across the business. 
• Align with other risk assurance and controls providers across the business to collaborate and remove duplication whilst improving standards.
• Respond to requests from business stakeholders, providing ad hoc independent risk insight and advice and coordinating support as appropriate.

More about you 

• Experience of facilitating risk management discussions and workshops at all levels, including leadership teams.
• Demonstrable experience or understanding of risk management and control environments at interview.
• Experience of working in complex operational environments, retail experience is desirable.
• Proven track record in developing strong stakeholder relationships at different seniority levels.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, which includes an ability to explain the impact of risks to stakeholders across the business.
• Strong analytical and report writing skills.
• Curiosity to learn new skills / knowledge and a commitment to personal development.
• Good understanding of Risk Management frameworks, trends and external developments. 
• Strong commercial acumen.
• Strong time management and project management skills to ensure work is delivered on time, to budget and to the expected quality.

We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new — whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them:

Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to save 10% on your shopping online and instore at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat, and we regularly increase the discount to 15% at points during the year. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 20% of salary, depending on how we perform.

Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance, and you can buy up to an additional week's holiday, and we provide private healthcare. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, interest free car loan of up to £10k, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, salary advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an Employee Assistance Programme.

Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave.

Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).