Rider Levett Bucknall

Global construction and property consultancy services

Risk & Change Manager

Project ManagementUpdated on Nov 13

Full-timeAmsterdam, Netherlands€90k - €95k /yr

About the Job

Requirements

A bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, Business Management, Risk Management, or a related discipline.
Membership of a relevant professional body such as APM, IRM, PMI, or equivalent.
Delivery of risk and change management services within construction or infrastructure projects.
Experience working within complex, multi-disciplinary project environments involving multiple contractors and stakeholders.
Experience developing and implementing project risk and change management processes, including governance boards and approval frameworks.
Experience facilitating risk workshops and maintaining project risk registers throughout the project lifecycle.
Experience working in a client-facing environment and providing advice to senior stakeholders.
Experience working on programmes or projects with significant commercial, schedule, and delivery complexity.
Familiarity with NEC or other standard forms of contract.
Commercial awareness and an appreciation of contractual risk allocation.
A strong understanding of the relationship between risk and change management and project controls functions.
Excellent facilitation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
Ability to influence and engage stakeholders at all organisational levels.
Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
Ability to operate effectively within large corporate and client environments.
Strong presentation, report-writing, and executive communication skills.
Ability to work independently while contributing effectively within a wider project team.

Responsibilities

Develop, implement, and maintain the project's early warning, risk, and change management processes in accordance with client and project governance requirements.
Facilitate risk identification workshops, risk reviews, and opportunity assessments with key project stakeholders.
Establish, maintain, and continuously improve the project risk register, ensuring risks and opportunities are identified, assessed, monitored, and reported.
Perform qualitative and quantitative risk assessments.
Ensure response actions are identified, implemented, and tracked through to completion.
Support the development of a proactive risk-aware culture across the project team.
Support the management of contractor change submissions and associated governance processes.
Work with planning, cost management, commercial, and delivery teams to ensure changes are reviewed, assessed, approved, documented, and communicated.
Coordinate and facilitate Change Control Board meetings and maintain the project change register.
Monitor cumulative change impacts and identify change trends, drivers, and potential project implications.
Collaborate with other Project Controls disciplines to integrate risk and change management into project delivery.
Ensure accurate and timely reporting of risk and change performance metrics.
Ensure compliance with client, corporate, contractual, and industry governance standards.
Support project reviews, assurance activities, stage-gate assessments, and lessons-learned initiatives.

Desired Qualifications

Experience working on projects in the Netherlands or wider European markets.
Experience supporting hyperscale data centre developments.
Experience working during construction and site delivery phases.
Experience establishing risk and change functions on major projects.
Knowledge of cost and schedule risk modelling and quantitative risk assessment tools.
Experience supporting programme-level or strategic risk management processes.
Working towards or holding relevant professional certifications such as the APM Risk Certificate, IRM Certificate, PMP, or equivalent.

Why RLB?

At RLB, we live by four simple ideas: Truth, Trust, Together, Tomorrow. Four values that live at the heart of RLB. A place where People Make Progress.

We value your skills, talents and unique perspectives – we think they are priceless.

Bring them to RLB and you’ll be empowered to shape our future and your career in new and meaningful ways.

We’ll give you opportunities to work on some of the most ambitious and exciting projects currently being designed and developed in the built environment sector.

You’ll continue to learn and advance as everyone who works for us is provided with a tailored training programme. Our mentoring and reverse mentoring schemes will enable you to share your expertise while gaining fresh insights.

What makes RLB unique is our inclusive culture. As an independent, employee-owned business, teamwork and collaboration lies at the heart of everything we do. Hybrid and flexible working arrangements and family-friendly policies are just some of the ways we invest in employee wellbeing.

Join us and you will thrive personally as well as professionally.

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Senior Consultant to support the successful delivery of a large-scale data centre project in the Groningen region of the Netherlands.

As part of the Project Controls team, the successful candidate will establish, implement, and lead the project's risk and change management function, ensuring alignment with the Client's governance requirements and delivery objectives. The role will be responsible for managing the project's Early Warning process, maintaining robust risk and change control frameworks, facilitating the proactive identification and mitigation of risks and opportunities, and ensuring that changes are effectively assessed, governed, and communicated throughout the project lifecycle.

Working closely with the client, project leadership team, contractors, commercial team, Project Controls team, and Portfolio Service Delivery Lead, the Risk & Change Manager will promote industry best practice, support informed decision-making, and contribute to the successful delivery of this critical programme of works, while maintaining consistency of approach across the wider portfolio.

Develop, implement, and maintain the project's early warning, risk and change management process in accordance with client and project governance requirements.

Risk & Opportunity Management

Facilitate risk identification workshops, risk reviews, and opportunity assessments with key project stakeholders.
Establish, maintain, and continuously improve the project risk register, ensuring risks and opportunities are appropriately identified, assessed, monitored, and reported.
Perform qualitative and quantitative risk assessments.
Ensure response actions are identified, implemented, and tracked through to completion.
Support the development of a proactive risk-aware culture across the project team.

Change Management

Support the management of contractor change submissions and associated governance processes.
Work closely with planning, cost management, commercial, and delivery teams to ensure all changes are appropriately reviewed, assessed, approved, documented, and communicated.
Coordinate and facilitate Change Control Board meetings and maintain the project change register.
Monitor cumulative change impacts and identify change trends, drivers, and potential project implications.

Project Controls

Collaborate with other Project Controls disciplines to ensure the effective integration of risk and change management into project delivery.
Ensure accurate and timely reporting of risk and change performance metrics.
Ensure compliance with client, corporate, contractual, and industry governance standards.
Support project reviews, assurance activities, stage-gate assessments, and lessons-learned initiatives.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, Business Management, Risk Management, or a related discipline.
Membership of a relevant professional body such as APM, IRM, PMI, or equivalent.
Working towards, or holding, relevant professional certifications such as the APM Risk Certificate, IRM Certificate, PMP, or equivalent.

Experience

Delivery of risk and change management services within construction or infrastructure projects.
Working within complex, multi-disciplinary project environments involving multiple contractors and stakeholders.
Development and implementation of project risk and change management processes, including governance boards and approval frameworks.
Risk workshop facilitation and maintenance of project risk registers throughout the project lifecycle.
Working within a client-facing environment and providing advice to senior stakeholders.
Working on programmes or projects with significant commercial, schedule, and delivery complexity.
Familiarity with NEC or other standard forms of contract.
Commercial awareness and an appreciation of contractual risk allocation.
Strong understanding of the relationship between risk and change management and project controls functions.

Desirable

Experience working on projects in the Netherlands or wider European markets is advantageous.
Experience supporting hyperscale data centre developments.
Experience working during construction and site delivery phases.
Experience establishing risk and change functions on major projects.
Knowledge of cost and schedule risk modelling and quantitative risk assessment tools.
Experience supporting programme level or strategic risk management processes.

Behaviours

Excellent facilitation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
Ability to influence and engage stakeholders at all organisational levels.
Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
Ability to operate effectively within large corporate and client environments.
Strong presentation, report writing, and executive communication skills.
Ability to work independently while contributing effectively within a wider project team.
Recognised as a client focused, positive collaborator who shares knowledge freely and offers support to their peers and seniors. Recognised as a team player with a strong willingness to learn.
Demonstrates a positive and proactive approach to the role, and will be committed to delivering customer service excellence, with good commercial results.

About the Company

Rider Levett Bucknall

Global construction and property consultancy services

Rider Levett Bucknall (RLB) provides independent construction and property consultancy services for built projects around the world. Its work spans feasibility, cost planning, project management, procurement advice, contract administration, and asset management, guiding clients from early ideas through delivery and operation. The firm combines specialists across markets to deliver unbiased advice, using market data and project controls to help optimize cost, schedule, risk, and quality. RLB differentiates itself by its 240+ year track record, global network of about 4,500 professionals, and its emphasis on truth, trust, collaboration, and responsible impact, underpinned by a commitment to independence and straight talk. The goal is to help clients deliver successful projects efficiently while making a positive contribution to communities and the planet.

Company size: 1,001-5,000
Company stage: Not listed
Total funding: Not listed
Headquarters: London, United Kingdom
Founded: 1969

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