CEO - Food

The Company

Leading investment group

The Role

• Lead the development and implementation of corporate strategy for the companies under management, ensuring appropriate integration across local operations and key functions, and creating alignment with regulatory requirements and external stakeholder needs
• Integrate strategic plans into a coherent and aligned strategy, either for a core strategic business or function within the overall global enterprise or for a large organization with some diversity and internationality
• Set and communicate mission, vision and values and the strategy for delivering these within the companies under management
• Hold direct reports accountable for achievement of annual and longer-term business objectives; take corrective action where necessary to ensure achievement of overall business goals, balancing the need to deliver short term business objectives with the longer-term delivery of stakeholder value
• Represent the organization or institution in a variety of industry, institutional, and/or professional forums, boards, and committees in order to promote the company or institution brand or efforts
• Ensure the financial integrity and wellbeing of the companies under management by taking overall responsibility for financial governance
• Identify and manage stakeholders up to C-suite level, finding out their needs/issues/concerns and reacting to these by leading and coordinating the development of stakeholder engagement plans to support the communication of business information and decisions

The Person

• Master\'s degree or equivalent experience
• 7 - 8 years of recent UAE Experience
• Wide and deep experience providing expert competence. 20+ years of the total experience with 7 years in C-Suite positions.
• Experienced in strategic management and leadership across company functions. directing substantial resources over long time frames (More than 15 years)
• Strong verbal communication
• Adaptive mindset
• Stakeholder Expectation Management