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Wood is seeking a General Manager for their Iraq Joint Venture, Wood Al Majal, based in Dubai, UAE, with regular travel to Iraq. This senior role involves managing the joint venture's business plan, budget, and operations within Iraq's Oil & Gas Sector, focusing on Maintenance, Completions/Commissioning Contracts, and Brownfield Modifications. The General Manager will be responsible for securing contracts, delivering projects, managing P&L targets, and developing relationships with key stakeholders, including government agencies.
Key qualifications include a university degree and over 15 years of extensive experience, particularly in operations and maintenance contracts, business development, tendering, and stakeholder management. Strong commercial acumen, safety focus, customer focus, and excellent communication, negotiation, and problem-solving skills are essential. The role requires leadership in HSSE, quality, and ethics, with the ability to motivate and influence diverse teams and external parties.
Requirements
Requires a university degree (bachelors or masters) in a relevant discipline or equivalent experience, with over 15 years of broad and extensive pertinent experience. Essential experience includes delivering Operations and Maintenance Contracts in complex brownfield environments, and strong commercial acumen, business development, proposals/tendering, and stakeholder management. Experience in construction and commissioning contracts is beneficial, as is Iraq experience.
Description
Wood is seeking a dynamic and experienced General Manager to join our Iraq Joint Venture leadership team. This is a full-time role based in Dubai, UAE with regular travel to Iraq as part of the position.
Job Objective
A senior role within the Wood Iraq business, managing the established joint venture company with Woods long-term Iraq partner Al Majal, The joint venture company is named ‘Wood Al. Majal’ and has been formed to combine the strengths of both partners to enter and succeed in tendering, securing, and delivering Maintenance, Completions / Commissioning Contracts and Brownfield Modifications Execution Projects within Iraq’s Oil & Gas Sector.
Manage Wood Al Majal business in accordance with the Business Plan and Budget under the direction and guidance of the Managing Committee. Deploying procedures and processes, targeting opportunities, securing contracts, and successfully delivering projects. Provide input to annual budgets and structure the company to deliver against the targets set and agreed by the Wood Al Majal Managing Committee and Board.
This is a Dubai based position with regular trips into Iraq. The intent would be to spend a minimum of 50% of time in Iraq and 50% in UAE to work with Managing Committee and Function Leads within Wood and joint venture partner.