Reputational Risk and Strategic Planning Risk Manager

AMS is a global workforce solutions partner committed to creating inclusive, dynamic, and future-ready workplaces. We help organisations adapt, grow, and thrive in an ever-evolving world by building, shaping, and optimising diverse talent strategies.

Our Contingent Workforce Solutions (CWS) is one of our service offerings. Acting as an extension of their recruitment teams, we connect them with skilled interim and temporary professionals, fostering workplaces where everyone can contribute and succeed.

Our Client is a leading international savings and investment business, the company manages a broad range of asset classes across public and private markets, serving individual savers and institutional investors around the world.

On behalf of this organisation, AMS are looking for a Reputational Risk and Strategic Planning Risk Manager for a 6 Month Day Rate Contract based in London. Please note this is a hybrid working model, at least 3 days per week in the office.

Job Description - The Role

The role is responsible for leading the management of reputational risk and coordinating strategic planning across the Corporate Affairs, Sustainability and Branding of our client. There are two primary responsibilities;

Reputational Risk where the role holder will lead identify and manage (proactively and reactively) a range of reputational risks that could impact negatively on the perception, held by a range of stakeholder groups of our client, you will be responsible for providing expert advice to ensure the efficient progression of reputational risk matters from trigger to execution.

Strategic Planning and Execution: The role holder will lead strategic planning for the function to ensure an effective planning function that supports the delivery of the collective corporate affairs strategy in order to implement consistent, coordinated activity with maximum impact.

Key accountabilities;

As a subject matter expert, be the point of authority, influencing, providing strategic advice, challenge and support on reputational matters to senior management. You will provide direction to others with reputational risk, client selection and customer responsibilities to devise and implement effective strategies for managing reputational risk matters in an ever-changing high-risk environment.

You will;

• Identify, manage and control reputational risk, in order that issues are swiftly escalated and decisions are taken in full consideration of the impacts on all stakeholder groups.
• Have awareness and consideration of Group strategic drivers and business area priorities, how this translates into the proactive management of reputation and Brand and what this means for reputational risk.
• Help drive the delivery of strategic standards and policies to ensure that the Group's exposure to reputational risk is managed in a commercially sensitive, practical and cost-effective manner.
• Serve as a subject matter expert on industry-accepted best practices in managing reputational risk, including methodology; providing direction, advice and guidance to business units, regional and functional teams in line with the risk appetite.
• Provide support and guidance to senior management and committees on key reputational risk trends.
• Help develop and implement/embed Group-wide standards and policies on reputational risk working with key stakeholders.
• Work with the Corporate Affairs team existing risk framework, supporting our Risk & Controls Forum.

Experience, skills and attributes;

• Experienced professional with significant experience gained within a FS/international organisation.
• Experience of working in a listed environment and managing financial reporting communication requirements e.g. financial results.
• Able to demonstrate expertise in the field of reputational risk management and gain the confidence of senior management and colleagues.
• Significant experience in roles where successfully mitigating reputational risk and managing strategic planning across multi-disciplinary communication teams is evident.
• Proven ability to exercise sound judgement, based on expert knowledge of reputational risk.
• Lateral thinker/problem solver with experience of working in a complex environment dealing with varied issues management.
• Thought leadership and campaigns experience, particularly for creative corporate communications campaigns across media, policy and public affairs and digital. This should include experience of producing high-quality written communications.
• Excellent communicator with strong inter-personal, influencing and relationship-building skills.
• Proficient in the MS Office suite (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint) familiar with working in Microsoft Teams.?
• Strong attention to detail and highly organised with the ability to manage multiple projects.

Next steps

This client will only accept workers operating via an Umbrella or PAYE engagement model.

If you are interested in applying for this position and meet the criteria outlined above, please click the link to apply and we will contact you with an update in due course.

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