Risk and Market Intelligence Manager

SRA; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading legal regulator in the United Kingdom seeks a Risk and Market Intelligence Manager to oversee the market risk pipeline and develop the Risk and Intelligence Framework. The successful candidate will lead in identifying and assessing emerging risks, collaborating across teams, and enhancing the organisation's capability in market risk recognition. This role allows for remote work, with occasional office presence in Birmingham or London. Candidates should have strong analytical skills and a postgraduate qualification.

Benefits

Real impact in public interest

Collaborative work environment

Qualifications

• Experience of identifying and assessing emerging risks at a strategic level.
• Broad analytical toolset including quantitative and qualitative methods.
• Deep experience of complex prioritisation involving emerging information.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the day-to-day running of market risk pipeline.
• Develop the organisation-wide Risk and Intelligence Framework.
• Facilitate collaboration across teams and contribute to risk forums.

Skills

Identifying and assessing emerging risks

Analytical methods (quantitative and qualitative)

Complex prioritisation

Communication skills

Influencing and leading through collaboration

Teamwork

Education

Postgraduate qualification or equivalent experience

Job description

We are looking for a Risk and Market Intelligence Manager with a strong analytical skill set, covering both quantitative and qualitative methods, and proven experience in identifying and assessing emerging risks. The role will lead and develop our organisation-wide Risk and Intelligence Framework (RIF) for identifying, evaluating, and managing market risk.

The role

In this role, you will oversee the day-to-day running of our market risk pipeline, ensuring that concerns, insights and emerging risks are captured, evaluated and progressed promptly through the appropriate decision-making routes. You will take a lead role in the continuous triage of concerns, applying clear criteria and structured assessment methods to ensure risks are prioritised effectively and, where necessary, fast-tracked for immediate senior consideration. You will maintain an auditable pipeline of activity and provide accurate, timely reporting to senior leaders and Board committees.

You will also be responsible for developing the SRA's capability and confidence in recognising market risks. This includes maintaining and evolving our regulatory Harms Framework for market risk, providing education and coaching to colleagues, and ensuring consistent application of risk criteria across the organisation. Working through influence, you will facilitate collaboration across teams and contribute to wider organisational forums to support knowledge sharing and aligned responses to risk.

A key part of the role will involve monitoring external best practice and building relationships with peer organisations to strengthen our approach to identifying and mitigating market risk. You may also have responsibility for line managing colleagues, supporting their development while driving continuous improvement in how we understand, prioritise and act on market risk across the organisation.

What's in it for you

• Establish and lead on the development of our approach to evaluating and managing emerging risk in the legal sector
• Make a real impact in the public interest as part of the largest legal regulator in England and Wales.
• Work collaboratively internally, and externally with other stakeholders

What we are looking for

• Experience of identifying and assessing emerging risks at a strategic level
• Broad analytical toolset including quantitative and qualitative methods: postgraduate qualification or equivalent experience
• Deep experience of complex prioritisation, involving or emerging information and trade-offs
• Experience of leading and working within multidisciplinary teams
• Experience of matrix working in complex organisation
• Experience of leading through influence
• Ability to produce reasoned, defensible analysis that can be relied upon to determine regulatory policy and prioritised action.
• Experience of communicating ideas and findings with both internal and external stakeholders, and to quality assure outputs.
• Ability to think both logically and creatively.
• Strong team player.

Useful and additional information

The full specification for the role can be found at the bottom of the advert on our website.

We are recruiting for this role in our Birmingham and London offices. You will be based in the office nearest to your location, working 1-2 days a week in the office and the remainder of the week from home.

If you have any questions that are not answered in the advert or on our website, or would like to have a confidential chat you can contact us via: .

To apply

Please click 'apply' to complete the online application form and upload a CV and cover letter, addressing how you meet the requirements of the role. Your Cover Letter should be no longer than 2 pages.

To find out more about the recruitment and selection process and how to make the most of your application, please visit our jobs pages.

Closing date for applications is 12 January at 09:00.