Job Description

Job Title: Risk Lead for IMO
Contract Type: Permanent, Part Time, Full Time, Job Share option available
Salary Range: 67,200 - 100,800
Location: Eastliegh
Closing Date for applications: 27th February 2026
Risk Lead for IMO: Join us as an IMO L1 Risk Lead and play a pivotal role in driving effective risk management across the Castle Integration Programme.
As a key member of our Programme IMO team, you'll work closely with the Programme Director, Product Owners, L1 business functions and risk partners across Ageas to ensure risks are identified, managed and evidenced in line with the Ageas UK Risk Management Framework.
This is a highly visible and influential role, acting as the bridge between the Programme and our L2 Risk and L3 Audit teams - ensuring strong governance, a proactive risk culture and consistent risk assurance across all workstreams.
Main Responsibilities as Risk Lead for IMO:

• Lead the Programme's risk management approach, ensuring alignment with the RMF, governance expectations and strong risk culture across all workstreams.
• Oversee and quality-assure risk, issue and assumption management, including risk identification, assessment, treatment and reporting, ensuring high-quality logs and effective actions.
• Support business readiness and control effectiveness, prompting teams to review and evidence control design and operation throughout transition states.
• Embed and oversee risk management tooling (e.g., Jira, Confluence, SharePoint), ensuring high-quality data: risk logs, assessments, KRIs, controls, readiness and lessons learned.
• Coordinate and monitor risk events and lessons learned, driving root cause analysis, tracking actions and ensuring continuous improvement.
• Act as the primary liaison with L2 Risk and L3 Audit, coordinating responses, actions and oversight while providing clear risk reporting, insights and facilitation of risk forums.

Skills and experience you need as Risk Lead for IMO:

• Proven experience in L1 or L2 risk roles supporting major change, migration or integration programmes, ideally within financial services or insurance.
• Deep understanding of risk management practices, including risk identification, assessment, mitigations and reporting.

Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, able to challenge constructively and build trusted partnerships across all 3LoD. * Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, able to challenge constructively and build trusted partnerships across all 3LoD.

• Highly organised and results-focused, capable of prioritising multiple activities and delivering high-quality outputs to senior audiences.
• Strong communication skills, able to present clearly to executives and risk/audit professionals in both written and verbal formats.
• Working knowledge of Jira, Confluence and agile environments (preferred but not essential).

At Ageas we offer a wide range of benefits to support you and your family inside and outside of work, which helped us achieve, Top Employer status in the UK.
Here are some of the benefits you can enjoy at Ageas:
Flexible Working- Smart Working @ Ageas gives employees flexibility around location (as long as it's within the UK) and, for many of our roles, flexibility within the working day to manage other commitments, such as school drop offs etc. We also offer all our vacancies part-time/job-shares. We also offer a minimum of 35 days holiday (inc. bank holidays) and you can buy and sell days.
Supporting your Health- Dental Insurance Health Cash Plan, Health Screening, Will Writing, Voluntary Critical Illness, Mental Health First Aiders, Well Being Activities - Mindfulness.
Supporting your Wealth- 50% off esure and Sheilas' Wheels motor and home insurance, Annual Bonus Schemes, Annual Salary Reviews, Competitive Pension, Employee Savings, Employee Loans.
Supporting you at Work- Well-being activities, mindfulness sessions, Sports and Social Club events and more.
Supporting you and your Family- Maternity/pregnant parent/primary adopter entitlement of 16 weeks at full pay and paternity/non-pregnant parent/co-adopter at 8 weeks' full pay.
Benefits for Them- Partner Life Assurance and Critical Illness cover.
Get some Tech- Deals on various gadgets including Wearables, Tablets and Laptops.
Getting around- Car Salary Exchange, Cycle Scheme, Vehicle Breakdown Cover.
Supporting you back to work- Return to work programme after maternity leave.
About Ageas:
We are one of the largest car and home insurers in the UK. help Ageas to be a thriving, creative and innovative place to work. We show this in the service we provide to over four million customers.
As an inclusive employer, we encourage anyone to apply. We're a signatory of the Race at Work Charter and Women in Finance Charter, member of iCAN and GAIN. As a Disability Confident Leader, we are committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are fully inclusive. That means if you are applying for a job with us, you will have fair access to throughout your recruitment experience. If the list does not cover the support you need, please contact our Recruitment Team to discuss how they can help. We also guarantee an interview for applicants with a disability who meet the minimum criteria for the role. For more information, please see .
We have a zero-tolerance approach towards any form of harassment during the recruitment process, ensuring that everyone is treated with respect and professionalism.
Our aim is to have great people everywhere in our business and we're always looking for outstanding people to join us. Most roles across Ageas allow a proportion of your time to be spent working from home and we're open to discussing flexible working, including full-time, part-time or job share arrangements. To find out more about Ageas, see .
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