Head of Group Risk & Decision Governance

GVW Group is a dynamic private investment and industrial holding company dedicated since 1993 to growing and starting businesses. We take an entrepreneurial approach to building value for our scalable early‑stage, high‑growth, and mid‑sized operating companies by providing strategic expertise and resources. Along the way, we have expanded globally into diverse industries ranging from manufacturing to technology, distribution, big data, engineering, and energy efficiency.

Miami, FL | Privately Held Industrial Group (Vehicle Manufacturing)

GVW Group is a privately held, operator‑driven industrial group with multiple portfolio companies in vehicle manufacturing and related operating businesses. As the group continues to scale, this role exists to ensure that enterprise risk is visible, deliberate, and owned at the right level, and that decision rights, capital commitments, and accountability remain aligned across the platform.

Risk at GVW is not managed through policy alone. It is governed through:

• Decision rights
• Capital commitments
• Authority and accountability

This role exists to ensure that:

• Decisions carrying material risk are made at the right level.
• Long dated or irreversible commitments are understood before they are made.
• Authority, incentives, and controls remain aligned as the organization scales.
• Risk is embedded in how the business operates, not handled after the fact.

• Design, implement, and enforce decision rights, approval thresholds, and escalation paths across the group.
• Identify and correct drift between documented authority and actual practice.
• Ensure separation between commercial incentives, risk acceptance, and execution.

• Govern risk related to capital allocation, large investments, long‑term contracts, guarantees, and structural commitments.
• Evaluate risk based on irreversibility, duration, control, and downside exposure.
• Embed risk discipline into acquisitions, integrations, and major strategic initiatives.

• Maintain a forward‑looking view of enterprise risk across operations, supply chain, products, technology, cyber, and people.
• Surface material risks early and ensure they are discussed factually and without politics.
• Lead scenario planning, pre‑mortems, and executive decision reviews.

• Own crisis‑readiness frameworks and escalation protocols.
• Coordinate preparedness and response for high‑impact events including: operational or safety incidents, cyber or technology failures, supply‑chain disruption, material litigation or reputational events.

• Direct oversight of Internal Audit and Information Security (CISO).
• Ensure controls support sound decision‑making, rather than substitute for it.
• Ensure accountability for remediation, not just reporting.

• Senior leadership experience in industrial, manufacturing, infrastructure, transportation, or other asset‑heavy environments.
• Experience owning large, complex operations or transformations, where risk shows up through capital, safety, scale, and execution.
• A track record of governing decisions, not just advising on risk.
• Comfort holding peers accountable and operating close to ownership and senior leadership.
• Exposure to multiple control domains (e.g., operations, finance, audit, technology, safety, compliance), with clear authority over outcomes.

At‑Will Employment:

This job description does not create a contract of employment, nor does it alter the at‑will employment relationship. Employment with the company is voluntary and may be terminated at will by either the employee or the company, with or without cause, and with or without notice.

Job Duties Disclaimer:

The duties and responsibilities outlined here are representative but not exhaustive of the tasks that the employee may be required to perform. Management reserves the right to modify, add, or remove duties and to assign other tasks as necessary to meet business needs.

Equal Employment Opportunity:

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