Group Director - ERM & BCM
Skills
About This Role
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.
Your resume, rewritten
for this exact role.
Sign up free — Base Career tailors your CV to this job description in 60 seconds.
01 / 05
Resume Tailored to This Job
Your keywords, structure, and story — rewritten to match this exact role and pass ATS filters.
Free · No card · 60 seconds
02 / 05
Cover Letter for This Role, Done
Job-specific cover letters written in Gulf professional tone — ready in seconds, not hours.
Free · No card · 60 seconds
03 / 05
See How Well You Fit This Role
AI match score with clear reasons — know your fit before investing time in the application.
Free · No card · 60 seconds
04 / 05
Use Autofill When You Apply
Autofill any application form on Workday, LinkedIn, Bayt, Greenhouse — with your tailored content.
Free · No card · 60 seconds
05 / 05
Track It. Follow Up at the Right Time.
Visual pipeline for every application with AI-timed follow-up reminders so nothing slips.
Free · No card · 60 seconds
Similar Jobs
Group Director - Data Science, Insight & Analytics
Quotacom · Dubai
📌 Location: Dubai, UAE (Primary) | Hybrid flexibility 💼 Comp Package: Top-tier tax-free base salary + 50% Target Bonus + Executive Benefits (Schooling, Annual Flights, Relocation, Insurance) Overview: Over the last fou
Skills
1 weeks ago
Tailor Resume↗Tailor Resume ↗Group Director – Organizational Performance
NCS GeoResources Energy & Resource Services Ltd. · Doha
About the Role NCS GeoResources Energy & Resource Services Ltd. operates within the energy, natural resources, and technical services sector, supporting exploration activities, resource management, and operational servic
Skills
1 months ago
Tailor Resume↗Tailor Resume ↗2.2K+
Cover Letters & Follow-ups
1.8K+
Resumes Tailored
190.5K+
Jobs Tracked
Trusted by professionals at
Stop applying blindly.
Start getting hired.
Base Career automates the hardest parts of job searching — apply smarter, not harder.
AI Resume in 60s
Your resume rewritten for this exact role using the job description as the brief.
ATS-Optimized
Get past automated screening filters with the right keywords matched to each job.
Application Tracker
Track every job, follow-up, and interview in one visual kanban board.
Free plan · No credit card required