Risk Management Lead

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About the role

We have an exciting opportunity for a Risk Management Lead to join our team here at the John Lewis Partnership, reporting directly to our Director of Risk & Assurance. This critical, high-impact role partners directly with the Executive team and Senior Leadership to facilitate risk-informed strategic decision-making and drive value creation across the whole Partnership.

• Salary - £79,000 - £130,000.

• Contract type - This is a permanent position.

• Working pattern/flexible working - The Partnership has adopted a hybrid working approach, meaning you'll be able to work a mixture between the office and home based upon your personal needs whilst balancing the needs of the business. The Risk team currently aims for at least one day a week together in the office and as required across JLP locations or virtually to attend key meetings.

• Location - This role is based at our Pimlico head office.

Key responsibilities

• Strategic Partnership & Challenge - Provide expert insight and constructive challenge to the Executive and Leadership teams, ensuring the honest and timely surfacing of risks and strategic trade-offs to protect and advance Partnership aims (Customer, Partner, Profit, and Power).

• Framework Leadership - Act as a Risk Management Subject Matter Expert (SME), offering practical advice and assurance to embed and continuously mature the Risk Management Framework across the entire business.

• Value Protection - Ensure key risks and opportunities are effectively identified, assessed, managed, and appropriately escalated through robust governance channels, actively contributing to value creation and protection.

• Board-Level Reporting - Deliver clear, high-quality internal and external risk insight, assurance, and reporting for the Executive Team, Audit and Risk Committee, Board, and for inclusion in the Annual Report and Accounts.

• Strategic Development - Support the Director of Risk & Assurance in shaping the strategic direction for Risk Management and executing the roadmap for continuously elevating the overall risk management maturity of the Partnership.

Essential skills/experience you'll need

• Accountancy, Risk or Internal Audit qualification or significant risk related commercial experience
• Strong working knowledge of risk framework implementation in organisations, corporate governance and internal control principles across financial, IT, digital/cyber, regulatory and strategic/programme risk
• Experience of building and managing relationships of trust with senior stakeholders
• Strategic mindset and an ability to see the big picture
• Experience in matrix working

Desirable skills/experience you may have

• Experience of large scale multi-site retailing or FMCG
• Experience of cyber or data protection, customer, regulatory and programme risk

The partnership

We're the largest employee owned business in the UK and home of our cherished brands, John Lewis and Waitrose. We're not just employees, we're Partners, driven by our purpose to build a happier world. As we look to our future, there's never been a more exciting time to join us.

We're ruthlessly focussed on being brilliant at retail. We continue to innovate, adapt and diversify. Never Knowingly Undersold on price, quality and service in John Lewis and passionately serving food-lovers in Waitrose.

As Partners we all share the responsibility of ownership and in its rewards. We use our voices to contribute to our success, working together through the good and challenging times, holding true to our behaviours and treating everyone with kindness and respect.

We all own making the Partnership somewhere we belong. Embracing our differences and creating an environment where we're free to be ourselves and can THRIVE. Growing ourselves individually, and as a collective.

As Partners, we make all the difference. And, we all own it.

Important points to note:

It's important to note that some of our roles are subject to pre-employment vetting (which may include DBS checks for successful candidates). If required, you'll be informed and provided with information about vetting during the recruitment process and we encourage you to complete any vetting documents quickly to avoid delays. Any DBS checks required will be carried out by a third-party registered body and financial probity checks may also be required for some of our roles.

We occasionally close vacancies early in the event we receive a high volume of applications, and therefore, we recommend you apply early. If you require a reasonable adjustment due to a disability which means you may need longer to complete your application please contact us as soon as possible.

We want all of our Partners to have a good work-life balance and we support flexible working. This might mean flexible or compressed hours, job sharing or shorter hour contracts, where possible. Please discuss this further with the hiring manager during your interview.