CEO For Leading Civil Engineering Contractor

Sommerman Skinner Associates (SSA Limited)

Abu Dhabi, UAE

Ref: KP181-1203

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

Our Client is one of the leading organizations in sectors of Construction (Road & Infrastructure), Quarries and land transportation in UAE over the past 25 years. They have played an important role in major Strategic projects undergone by the Government of Abu Dhabi like Etihad Rail & Nuclear Power Plant.

This excellent opportunity has arisen for talented, innovative, visionary, enthusiastic, motivated professional to join the Group as CEO. This position is instrumental in strengthening existing business relations & developing & maintaining new business relations.

As CEO, the roles & responsibilities will be as follows:

Scope:
- Reporting to the Board of Directors, the CEO provides the strategic vision, planning, and operational leadership to ensure the company’s investments optimize the clients ability to compete in Local & regional markets.
- The CEO has a wide range of responsibilities and accountabilities that contribute to the overall achievement of their marketing objectives.
- The incumbent provides efficient and effective operations of the company, overseeing its interaction with external stakeholders and provides leadership to, and management of employees.
- Utilizing strategic and technical skills, the incumbent has authority and responsibility for providing leadership through performance-based management principles.
- The CEO is responsible for developing and effectively implementing the vision for the company ensuring the appropriate program design and support mechanisms are in place.
- Operating within an environment of sometimes conflicting political and stakeholder influence, the CEO maintains a careful balancing act on the basis of sound practices and policies.
- Providing vision, energy and commitment to advancing the Company and its business model, the CEO will work closely with all stakeholders to influence cooperation, increase understanding, and facilitate collaboration towards a common goal – a vibrant and sustainable business.

Responsibilities: Board of Directors:
- The CEO is responsible for ensuring that the Board of Directors has all the information necessary to properly exercise its responsibilities.
- Reports to the Board on a timely basis, on all relevant information regarding the company’s operations, develops and presents alternatives and recommends courses of action to the Board for its consideration.
- Helps the board in determining Value, Mission, Vision, short term & long term goals with particular attention to long term strategic issue.
- Helps the board in evaluating trends, issues, problems and activities in order to facilitate policy making. Helps the board with corporate governance issues.

Community and Stakeholder Relations:
- The CEO is responsible for establishing and maintaining positive and productive relationships within the industry and industry representatives, recipients, government organizations and communities, including national and international stakeholders.
- In this capacity, the CEO serves as primary spokesperson for the organization and promotes collaborative cooperation towards achieving a collective vision of prosperity in the related sectors of business.
- The CEO is expected to exercise influence and persuasion in the face of divergent objectives and may be called upon to communicate negative or unpopular decisions.

Strategic and Operational Planning:
- In collaboration with senior management and appropriate stakeholders, the CEO formulates and recommends to the Board of Directors the annual Plan.
- The Plan identifies issues that must be addressed in order to realize the future vision and sets short, medium and long-term objectives and strategies.
- The CEO presents operating and capital expenditure budgets to the Board for approval, and has overall accountability for achieving the Board’s objectives.
- The CEO develops and maintains an effective and innovative organizational structure based on achieving performance objectives that reflect the industry and market requirements.
- The CEO prescribes the authority and delegated responsibilities to the senior management team and develops an annual list of performance objectives.
- In addition to running an effective and efficient organization, the CEO is expected to address emerging issues that impact the future direction of the Company.

Corporate Policy:
- The CEO ensures the development of, and adherence to, operating policies, systems and practices that meet standards in order for the company to achieve its objectives while maintaining accountability.

Financial Management:
- In collaboration with senior management the CEO develops an annual budget prepared in the context of the clients strategic plan, for recommendation to the Board of Directors.
- The CEO ensures the efficient utilization of financial resources within established policies of the Company, making appropriate and timely financial and management decisions.

The incumbent is responsible for ensuring the use of an effective financial performance measurement system, proper internal audits, financial management and record-keeping and administrative systems to ensure efficient utilization of their financial resources within the objectives, policies, plans and budgets established by the Board.

Leadership of Human Resources:
- The CEO is responsible for managing the company’s compensation plan.
- The incumbent leads staff in their achievement of business objectives with integrity, fairness and transparency.
- Providing strong and effective leadership to all employees, the incumbent creates an environment which attracts and retains appropriate talents.
- Resource Acquisition, Allocation and Utilization:
- The CEO is responsible for the acquisition and most effective allocation of the organization’s fiscal, human and physical resources. The incumbent ensures that control, monitoring and performance standards and mechanisms are in place, relative to the utilization of all corporate resources.

Operations:
- The CEO identifies opportunities and proposes new methods of improving existing operations with a focus on bottom-line results.
- The incumbent fosters the search for new approaches to conducting business in an environment which provides the resources and communication flow necessary to encourage initiatives and joint projects on behalf of the public and private sectors.
- Daily operations of the company include excellence in communications to ensure stakeholders are aware of and understand the reasons for funding decisions.

Business and Economic Environment:
- The CEO keeps abreast of the business and economic climate in which the company and its stakeholders operate.
- The incumbent prepares the company to meet the challenges presented by new trends and developments in the market.
- The CEO utilizes a business orientation and marketing demeanor in order to bring concepts, services and cooperative business models to the marketplace.

Communications:
- The CEO ensures the effective communication of the company’s strategies, objectives and performances to create a positive company profile.
- The incumbent develops and maintains positive and productive relationships with high-level stakeholders and acts as company spokesperson.

Requirements

Engineering or Managerial / Finance Qualification with MBA from a reputed University with Minimum.

15+ experience at similar level in GCC preferably UAE in relevant industry. Age limit 45 to 50 years preferably Arabic Origin.

About the Company

SSA Ltd. (Sommerman Skinner Associates) find out the detail to allow you to make qualified judgments about your career and its progression. On the companies that we represent (over 2000 spread across a diverse spectrum of industry) we will be able to inform you of contracts pending, awarded, company growth, opportunity, relative reward and internal prospects. We believe that through spending time and effort front end through interviewing or individual dedication we can offer real advice that will be valued. Our founder is degree qualified with extensive exposure to industry and with a career also behind him in Recruitment Management. Our team is made up of qualified construction professionals. We specialise in both permanent and freelance opportunities to qualified construction professionals.

Disciplines covered include:

Site Engineers, Site Agents, Project Managers, Contracts Managers, Quantity Surveyors, Commercial Managers, Planners, Safety, Purchasers, Estimators and Design Executive.

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