Government Relations Director

One of our esteemed clients in the Shipbuilding industry is currently seeking a Government Relations Director with 12 years of experience alligning to the shipbuilding industry to be based in Dammam Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Overview

Manage the relationships between the local municipalities government bodies and regulatory authorities and ensure that relationships are effectively leveraged.

Strategic Responsibilities

• Align division goals processes and resource allocation with the organizational strategy while maintaining awareness of commercial and business objectives.
• Ensure the accomplishment of organizational unit objectives by managing staff; planning and evaluating organizational unit activities.
• Define objectives identifies and evaluates trends and options chooses a course of action and evaluates outcomes.
• Accomplish financial objectives by forecasting requirements preparing an annual budget scheduling expenditures analyzing variances and initiating corrective actions.
• Maintain quality service by enforcing quality and customer service standards analyzing and resolving quality and customer service problems and recommending system improvements.
• Support with strategic problems resolution and subjective decision making.

Managerial Responsibilities

• Supervise the entire work done by the team members and making sure it is completed on time without any delay.
• Lead the team to complete tasks and meet goals through delegation of responsibilities and supervising business operations.
• Set the vision and motivation of the team in order to achieve the sought objectives efficiently.
• Set appropriate and achievable deadlines.
• Track and report critical organizational unit performance results and escalate and negotiate business related issues to senior management.
• Accomplish staff results by communicating job expectations planning monitoring and appraising job results.

Functional Responsibilities

• Manage the development and implementation of the organizations government engagement framework and oversee plans for engaging with the various related stakeholders.
• Oversee and maintain a strong relationship with the local municipality and various government and regulatory bodies to ensure those relationships are properly leveraged.
• Oversee the processing of governmental services and documents.

Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree in Management or any other similar field.
• 12 years of experience in related field including 6 years in a leadership role.
• Masters Degree in Management or any other similar field is preferred.
• Saudi Nationals will be given first preference

Remote Work :

No