Risk Manager - Business Continuity & Risk

About the role

Egis Advisory Service Line manages large-scale developments for prestigious regional clients, including giga projects, municipalities and major urban and real estate ventures, with expertise in engineering, architecture and technology. This Risk Manager position plays a key role in advancing these projects, focusing on their strategic and technical foundations.

Key responsibilities

• Define risk criteria, scoring methodology and evaluation approach aligned to the client's enterprise risk framework
• Build credible failure scenarios across power distribution, water, sewerage, stormwater, street lighting, road networks and fire and life safety systems, and assess likelihood, consequence and control effectiveness
• Map interdependencies and single points of failure, and lead business impact analysis to set service levels, tolerable outage and recovery time objectives
• Prepare heat maps and impact summaries, facilitate risk appetite and tolerance agreements, develop risk treatment options and set target residual risk levels
• Run Monte Carlo simulations to model cost and schedule exposure, present results as S-curves and tornado diagrams, and support management decisions
• Author the business continuity plan, operational playbooks, resource requirements and vendor call-out arrangements, and integrate continuity tasks into client SOPs and SLAs
• Design training needs analysis, deliver role-based training, oversee emergency drills and produce drill and lessons-learnt reports
• Review risk outputs from the wider team, support bids and technical proposals, and hand over the continuity framework to client operations

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related technical discipline; a postgraduate qualification in risk management is an advantage
• Minimum 15 years in risk management, including business continuity delivery on infrastructure, utility or industrial portfolios
• Lead Implementer or Lead Auditor certification in ISO 22301, plus an ISO 31000 credential
• Fluent English and Arabic
• Experience producing continuity plans adopted operationally, with evidence of drills, and experience facilitating risk appetite and business impact workshops at executive level

Required skills

• Monte Carlo simulation for quantitative cost and schedule risk analysis (preferred but not essential)
• Ability to turn probabilistic output into actionable recommendations for non-technical stakeholders
• Understanding of utility interdependencies such as power-to-pumping, power-to-lighting and water-to-fire systems