Group Director - ERM & BCM
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**Title:** Group Director \- ERM \& BCM **Location:** Abu Dhabi **About the Company** Our client is a large diversified construction and infrastructure group operating across multiple sectors including contracting, infrastructure, manufacturing, and specialist services, with a significant regional footprint and large\-scale project portfolio across the Middle East. **Key Responsibilities** * Establish and lead a Group\-wide Enterprise Risk Management
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Abu Dhabi
About the Company
Our client is a large diversified construction and infrastructure group operating across multiple sectors including contracting, infrastructure, manufacturing, and specialist services, with a significant regional footprint and large-scale project portfolio across the Middle East.
Key Responsibilities
- Establish and lead a Group-wide Enterprise Risk Management and Business Continuity Management framework aligned to strategic objectives, governance standards, and risk appetite.
- Provide executive oversight of enterprise risk, compliance, internal audit, and governance activities across multiple subsidiaries and geographies, ensuring alignment of the Group’s Governance, Risk & Compliance ecosystem.
- Advise the Group CEO, Executive Leadership Team, Board, and Committees on enterprise risks, emerging threats, governance effectiveness, and strategic decision-making implications.
- Oversee strategic, operational, financial, project, contractual, and reputational risk across major EPC, infrastructure, and industrial programmes, ensuring effective mitigation and control.
- Lead Business Continuity, crisis management, and organizational resilience frameworks, including Business Impact Assessments, testing, and incident response readiness.
- Drive governance transformation through implementation of integrated GRC systems, risk analytics, dashboards, and digital reporting capabilities.
- Build and lead high-performing risk, compliance, and assurance functions, fostering a strong culture of accountability, transparency, and continuous improvement.
Requirements
- 20+ years of progressive experience in Enterprise Risk, Governance, Compliance, Internal Audit, or Business Continuity, including at least 10 years in senior leadership roles.
- Proven experience operating within large-scale construction, infrastructure, industrial, or diversified group environments with multi-entity complexity.
- Demonstrated ability to design and embed enterprise-wide ERM and BCM frameworks aligned to Board-level governance and strategic objectives.
- Strong track record of advising CEOs, Boards, and Committees on enterprise, project, and strategic risk matters.
- Deep understanding of governance, internal controls, regulatory environments, crisis management, and organizational resilience.
- Experience leading or overseeing GRC transformation, including digital risk platforms, reporting automation, and analytics-driven risk insights.
- Professional certifications such as MBCI, IRM, CIA, CISA, CRMA, or ISO 31000 / ISO 22301 are highly desirable.
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