Director - Governance, Risk & Performance Management

About the role

The Group Governance & Assurance Manager leads performance governance, operating-model compliance and commitment assurance across the Contracting & Construction sector. Reporting to the Group Chief Integration & Performance Officer, the role turns performance information into decisions, corrective action and disciplined commitment across operating companies and major construction programmes. It manages the governance calendar and forums, consolidates project reviews, and oversees tender compliance and risk-and-opportunity management.

Key responsibilities

• Design and manage the Group governance calendar, terms of reference and decision rights for Group ExCom, BU ExCom, project review and bi-weekly forums
• Prepare standard review packs and briefings, and challenge inputs before they reach executive forums
• Consolidate financial and commercial project reviews into an integrated view of performance, risks, actions and decisions
• Maintain the decision and action log and drive actions to closure with accountable owners
• Monitor intervention triggers, maintain the project watch-list and track recovery plans for underperforming projects and business units
• Maintain the Group process architecture and library, and run a single change-control route for processes, procedures and tools
• Track adoption of approved processes, run periodic compliance reviews and report findings to governance forums
• Administer tender governance, including compliance checks, Go/No-Go and bid approval gates aligned with delegation of authority
• Run the tender assurance review cadence and ensure a structured handover from tender to execution
• Lead the Group risk-and-opportunity framework and register, and capture lessons learned from project reviews and post-award outcomes

Required profile

• 12+ years of relevant experience in commercial, project controls or governance
• 5+ years in a management role with accountability for governance, review or assurance processes across multiple projects or business units
• Proven experience consolidating project reviews, supporting performance recovery, running tender approval and bid assurance, and supporting executive forums
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Quantity Surveying or Construction Management; Master's degree (related field or Business Administration) preferred

Required skills

• Management systems, governance forums, decision rights and performance review in multi-business organisations
• Construction commercial management, project controls, cost, margin and cash forecasting, and contract risk
• Tender governance, bid approval, delegation of authority and risk-and-opportunity management
• Process architecture, change control and process compliance assessment
• Challenge and influence, including holding senior stakeholders to actions and deadlines