About This Role
Regional Directors lead, perform, grow, govern, and safely execute CB&I Asset Solutions' business across the Middle East and North Africa. This strategic leadership role provides executive oversight for operational, commercial, business development, financial, and organizational activities, ensuring sustainable growth, profitable delivery, strong client relationships, and disciplined risk management.
Responsibilities
- Account for the overall leadership, performance, growth, governance, and safe execution of CB&I Asset Solutions' business across the Middle East and North Africa region
- Provide strategic direction and executive oversight for operational, commercial, business development, financial, and organizational activities
- Ensure sustainable growth, profitable delivery, strong client relationships, and disciplined risk management
- Act as the senior CB&I Asset Solutions representative within the region
- Lead the development and execution of the regional business strategy
- Maintain effective oversight of contracts, projects, entities, and market-entry activities
- Develop and implement the regional strategy in alignment with corporate objectives, risk appetite, and growth priorities
- Translate strategy into practical annual operating plans, medium-term business plans, performance targets, and clear accountabilities
- Assess market opportunities, geographic expansion, strategic partnerships, and new service propositions, making clear recommendations to executive leadership
- Lead regional management and governance forums, ensuring timely decisions, effective escalation, and disciplined follow-through
- Act as the senior representative of CB&I Asset Solutions across the region and protect the organization
- Hold accountability for regional revenue, profitability, cash flow, working capital, cost control, and sustainable value creation
- Own the regional budget and forecasting process, including assumptions, resource requirements, investment priorities, and corrective actions
- Monitor performance against approved plans and lead recovery measures where financial, operational, or commercial performance falls below expectation
- Drive margin improvement, productivity, cost optimization, and disciplined use of resources without compromising safety, quality, or contractual obligations
- Ensure material financial exposures, provisions, and sensitivities are identified, understood, and appropriately governed
- Provide executive oversight of operations, maintenance, technical support, and project delivery activities across the regional portfolio
- Ensure contracts are mobilized, executed, transitioned, and closed out safely, efficiently, profitably, and in accordance with contractual requirements
- Establish proportionate governance, assurance, reporting, and accountability frameworks for each contract and operating entity
- Review contract performance, operational risk, asset integrity, resource adequacy, and delivery constraints, intervening where necessary
- Lead the response to significant operational, performance, client, or contractual issues and ensure lessons learned are embedded across the portfolio
- Lead the regional growth strategy and maintain executive ownership of the opportunity pipeline
- Identify and develop opportunities arising from new clients, existing accounts, contract extensions, adjacent services, and geographic expansion
- Chair or contribute to bid/no-bid, strategy, risk, and investment reviews, ensuring opportunities are aligned with capability, risk appetite, and return expectations
- Provide senior leadership during major pursuits, client presentations, negotiations, due diligence, and contract award activities
- Develop strategic partnerships, alliances, and joint venture arrangements where these strengthen market access, capability, or competitiveness
- Act as the executive interface for major regional clients and maintain trusted relationships with NOCs, IOCs, government bodies, partners, and key industry stakeholders
- Ensure client priorities and concerns are understood and addressed through transparent communication and accountable delivery
- Lead executive engagement on material performance, commercial, or relationship matters and support timely resolution of disputes or concerns
- Use client insight and market intelligence to shape strategy, service development, and investment decisions
- Promote CB&I Asset Solutions as a credible, responsive, and long-term partner in the region
- Ensure effective management of contractual, commercial, legal, financial, operational, regulatory, and reputational risk across the region
- Provide executive oversight of contract negotiations, claims, variations, disputes, liability exposure, and material commercial commitments
- Ensure appropriate legal, tax, compliance, and specialist advice is obtained for market entry, entity, contracting, and delivery decisions
- Maintain clear visibility of regional risks, mitigations, decision owners, and escalation requirements
- Ensure decisions are taken within delegated authority and supported by an adequate record of risk, rationale, and approval
- Champion a visible safety-first culture and reinforce that safe, ethical, and compliant delivery is a core leadership responsibility
- Ensure compliance with corporate requirements, applicable legislation, client standards, and approved HSE and technical integrity systems
- Review significant incidents, audit findings, and emerging risks, ensuring corrective actions are properly resourced, tracked, and closed
- Promote continuous improvement in process safety, occupational safety, environmental performance, security, quality, and asset integrity
- Maintain appropriate leadership visibility across offices, projects, worksites, and client locations
- Build, lead, and develop a capable regional leadership team with clear objectives, accountability, and decision rights
- Ensure the organization has the structure, capacity, competence, and succession depth required to deliver current commitments and future growth
- Lead workforce planning, mobilization, retention, and talent development across permanent, consultant, and project-based resources
- Coach senior leaders and develop successors for critical roles
- Foster a culture of integrity, collaboration, inclusion, performance, constructive challenge, and continuous improvement
- Ensure regional activities comply with corporate governance, delegated authorities, internal controls, and applicable laws and regulations
- Oversee the effective governance of regional legal entities, branches, licenses, registrations, and authorized representatives
- Support Board, Executive Committee, and shareholder reporting with accurate, balanced, and decision-relevant information
- Ensure conflicts, related-party matters, and material compliance concerns are disclosed and managed appropriately
- Maintain effective interfaces with corporate functions including Finance, Legal, HR, Tax, HSE, Commercial, and Compliance
Requirements
- Bachelor
- Proven experience in MENA region
- Senior leadership experience in energy, oil and gas, operations and maintenance, engineering services, or asset management
- Demonstrable accountability for a business, region, or material portfolio, including financial, operational, and commercial performance
- Proven experience managing complex, multi-country operations and culturally diverse teams
- Strong track record in client leadership, business development, contract negotiation, and risk-based decision-making
- Experience operating in contractually accountable environments involving NOCs, IOCs, government entities, or major industrial clients
- Sound understanding of HSE, technical integrity, quality, compliance, and operational risk management
Important Details
- Working environment: Based in the United Arab Emirates with regular travel across the MENA region and to other locations as business needs require
About the Company
Worldwide, energy asset owners choose CB&I Asset Solutions as their asset management partner. The company delivers tailored, value-driven asset management solutions through safe, effective, and efficient operations, maintenance, wells, and decommissioning solutions, specializing in late-life energy assets. CB&I Asset Solutions is committed to investing in its people and building exceptional teams who deliver.
