Senior Vice President of Operations

Overview

1. Operational Leadership (40%)

• Review and approve tender documents, including general, technical, commercial, legal, and special conditions.
• Oversee the preparation and approval of technical and commercial proposals, tender submissions, negotiations, and post-tender clarifications.
• Direct day-to-day operations across multiple construction projects, ensuring compliance with quality, budget, and schedule requirements.
• Review and manage contracts, workshop drawings, quantity surveying outputs, and commercial documentation across all projects.
• Lead procurement strategies and negotiate, approve, and manage contracts with suppliers, subcontractors, and service providers.
• Ensure issuance, monitoring, and compliance of letters of guarantee in coordination with Finance.
• Review and approve subcontractor invoices based on verified progress and executed work.
• Review client invoices in coordination with consultants to ensure contractual and commercial accuracy.
• Enforce strict compliance with Health, Safety, and Environmental (HSE) regulations and standards.
• Champion a proactive safety culture across all sites and operational units.

2. Project Delivery & Financial Oversight (30%)

• Collaborate with Portfolio Directors, Project Directors, and Project Managers to ensure effective planning, execution, and timely delivery of project milestones.
• Monitor budgets, cost controls, procurement plans, and overall financial performance across projects.
• Provide executive oversight throughout all project phases from initiation and mobilization through completion and handover.
• Review project scopes and align objectives with client expectations and internal delivery teams.
• Monitor schedules, cash flow, activity programs, and revenue forecasts to achieve financial targets.
• Analyze project performance data and KPIs; recommend and implement corrective actions where required.

3. Performance & Organizational Effectiveness (15%)

• Support the President in driving organizational growth, market expansion, and operational scalability.
• Analyze operational performance to evaluate staff effectiveness, identify cost-saving opportunities, and recommend policy or process improvements.
• Lead corrective action plans addressing organizational, operational, or departmental challenges.
• Oversee continuous improvement of administrative systems, recordkeeping, and operational controls across projects.
• Prepare annual departmental budgets and review estimated project budgets.
• Develop and implement budgetary control systems and financial monitoring tools.
• Participate in feasibility studies, cost analyses, and investment evaluations for new opportunities.

4. Client & Stakeholder Relations (15%)

• Build and maintain strong, long-term relationships with key clients, consultants, and stakeholders.
• Identify and develop new business opportunities in existing and emerging markets.
• Act as a senior liaison with shareholders, board members, clients, and external partners.
• Collaborate with executive leadership and board members on strategy, issue resolution, and coordination.
• Prepare and present executive reports on operational performance, budgets, expenditures, and strategic initiatives.
• Represent the organization in industry forums, conferences, presentations, and public engagements to promote corporate objectives.