UAE - Managing Director

Description

• Represent Averda in regulatory consultations and policy discussions, ensuring the company’s interests are well understood and protected.
• Maintain strong relationships with regulatory bodies (e.g., Tadweer, Dubai Municipality, MoCCAE, EAD) to stay ahead of shifts that affect operations, pricing, and service scope.
• Build, develop, and retain a high-performing leadership team and workforce.
• Build a pipeline of opportunities and leads to sustain the business's growth projections and ambitions.
• Deliver against Revenue, EBIT, and Cash Collection targets as agreed with the Group.
• Define and execute a clear strategy for profitable growth in the UAE, aligned with the global and regional strategies.
• Uphold Averda’s reputation as a trusted, ethical, and sustainable partner.
• Ensure service delivery meets contractual commitments and exceeds client expectations.
• Anticipate and respond to changes in disposal fees, recycling policies, and permitting rules, adjusting commercial models and operational plans accordingly.
• Act as the primary ambassador of Averda in the UAE, ensuring a positive and credible market presence.
• Identify and pursue new business opportunities, technical capabilities and technologies to expand market share and revenue streams.
• Navigate the evolving regulatory landscape across all Emirates, ensuring full compliance with municipal, environmental, transport, and waste-related requirements.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, innovation, and customer-centricity.
• Actively coach and mentor leaders to build bench strength and future successors.
• Monitor and improve customer satisfaction and Net Promoter Score (NPS).
• Oversee end-to-end operations, ensuring adequate capacity to meet client demands while managing costs.
• Establish pricing strategies, contracts, and business models that maximize value while maintaining competitiveness.
• Ensure operational performance meets the highest standards of safety, quality, efficiency, and sustainability.
• Promote diversity, equity, and inclusion within the business.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance productivity, reduce downtime, and innovate processes.
• Proactively manage working capital, ensuring timely billing and collection of receivables.
• Optimize the P&L by driving revenue growth, margin expansion, and cost efficiencies.
• Ensure compliance with all local laws, environmental regulations, and Group policies.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with key clients, government stakeholders, partners, and regulators.

Requirements

• Strategic thinker with strong execution discipline.
• Commercially savvy with exceptional financial acumen.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Arabic is preferable
• Minimum of 10 years of senior leadership experience, including P&L accountability at country or regional level, ideally in waste management, industrial, logistics, or infrastructure business.
• Advanced degree in Business, Engineering, or a related field; MBA preferred.
• Proven track record of delivering growth, profitability, and operational excellence in a complex and competitive environment.
• Experience managing diverse teams and stakeholders, with a strong focus on culture and people development.

Benefits

This is an exciting opportunity to lead the transformation of a market-leading business at a pivotal moment in its journey. You will have the opportunity to shape strategy, the resources of a global group, and the responsibility to build a high-impact legacy — all while tackling one of the world’s most urgent challenges: sustainable waste management.

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance