Risk & Change Manager- FTC

Department: Cost Management

Employment Type: Fixed Term - Full Time

Location: Amsterdam

Compensation: €90,000 - €95,000 / year

Description

Role Responsibilities

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

Candidate Profile

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

RLB Employee Benefits

• Hybrid Working - Working patterns to support your work-life balance.
• Well-Rewarded - A competitive salary and generous holiday entitlement. As well as the opportunity to purchase up to five extra days.
• Personal Development - A continuous learning and development programme, including established APC and in-house mentoring schemes.
• Additional Benefits - We offer a wide range of benefits including professional membership subscriptions.
• Exceptional Exposure - You’ll have the opportunity to work on diverse projects across different sectors and regions.
• Social Responsibility - We hold team and social events as well as charity fundraising and volunteering activities.