The Role

Location - Bristol / Flexible

12 Month FTC

This role will develop and maintain the Group’s risk management framework, ensuring that risk assessment and management processes are being performed in an effective and consistent manner. The role will effectively interact with executive and senior management teams at group, regional, functional and local level to ensure transparency on the Group’s risk landscape, profile and risk mitigation effectiveness.

Furthermore, this role manages the generation of high quality risk related insights through establishing and directing robust and comprehensive risk monitoring processes across the organisation to ensure risk exposure and current or possible mitigations are transparently understood.

Principle Accountabilities

Risk Assessment

• Develop and maintain the Group’s risk management framework and its related risk assessment processes.
• Manage an up-to-date risk register (risk landscape) both on key risk as well as on an underlying risk level Perform the regular 2nd line risk assessment process, including agreement on key risks at functional level with functional leadership teams as well as understanding and defining risk interdependencies.
• Support the development of and facilitate and co-ordinate the Group’s bottom-up and top down risk assessment processes
• Consolidate risk assessment outputs across 1st and 2nd line areas as input into the top-down risk assessment process and subsequent external reporting processes.
• Working with the Head of the GRC CoE, as required prepare and present consolidated risk assessment results to the Group Risk Committee, ELT and Board, including the identification of new / horizon risks, interdependencies between risks and the effectiveness of mitigation activities.
• Prepare the relevant risk sections of Annual Report, funding documentation and any other external reporting risk disclosures as required.

Risk Appetite

• Facilitate 2nd Line translation of board risk appetite into Key Risk Indicators (KRIs) and thresholds for underlying risks allocated to specific 2nd Lines.
• Support the identification of appropriate data sources and information gathering processes to support consistent and regular KRI reporting by 2nd Line functions.

Risk Mitigation Effectiveness

• Support GRC Business Partners in identification of appropriate risk mitigation approaches within their areas of 1st line accountability as required and analyse and report on effectiveness of relevant risk mitigation measures.
• Manage the KRI reporting process across allocated 2nd Line units.
• Support (re)development of risk mitigation activities to improve design effectiveness.

• Support the group wide reporting of risk mitigation effectiveness to Board, ELT and Group Risk Committee.

Assurance over Risk Management

• Facilitate the identification of existing 2nd and 1st line assurance capabilities or assurance gaps (i.e. “assurance mapping”) and identify necessary improvements.
• Review results of assurance activities and assess impact on mitigation effectiveness positions, then support the development of ways to remediate or improve where required.
• Consolidate results of assurance activities across 1st, 2nd and 3rd line to obtain a holistic view of risk mitigation effectiveness and provide transparent reporting in relation to this. Subsequently support the development of ways to remediate or improve where required.

What We Offer

In return for playing your part in building our future, you will receive a comprehensive compensation package with salary, bonus scheme and many extras including a great pension scheme, generous holiday entitlement and hybrid/flexible working opportunities as well inspiring places to work and collaborate with purpose. Here at Imperial we will give you the opportunity to grow and learn, innovate at pace and be a part of our purpose to forge a path to a healthier future for moments of relaxation and pleasure for our consumers.

Everyone Belongs

Everyone belongs in Imperial. We are proud of being a truly inclusive organisation. We encourage and welcome applications from people of all ages, genders, ethnicities, nationalities, disabilities, sexual orientation, religions or beliefs and of neuro divergence. We give fair and equal consideration to all our applicants. Please contact us at recruitment@impbrands.com to let us know if we can provide support in helping you complete an application and/or attend an interview.

About Us

We're a truly international company, fourth largest in our industry and operating across 120 markets. An inclusive, innovative global FMCG business supported by 25,000 employees. As we embrace a new era of growth, we are transforming. Our ways of working and culture are driven by a challenger mindset, constantly questioning the status quo where people can bring their best selves to work. Our agility and collaboration are driving our ambitions, innovation and success all supported by our award-winning development programmes that creates exciting and rewarding career opportunities for all.  Encouraging inclusion at local levels and supporting a developing and robust diversity agenda globally, we’re fully committed to creating and maintaining an environment that celebrates and respects difference.