Head of Group Risk and Decision Governance

GVW Group, LLC•Miami, FL

55d

About The Position

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. Summary: GVW Group is a flat, operator-driven industrial and investment platform with long-term capital and safety-critical businesses. Risk at GVW is not managed through policy alone, it is governed through decision rights, capital commitments, and accountability. This role exists to ensure that enterprise risk is visible, deliberate, and owned at the correct level, and that authority, incentives, and controls remain aligned as the organization scales. This is a hands-on, organization-wide operating role, not an advisory or compliance function. The Head of Group Risk & Decision Governance is accountable for designing, implementing, and enforcing GVW’s enterprise risk and decision-governance framework, spanning operating companies and the investment function. The role ensures GVW can grow with speed without fragility, by governing how risk is identified, accepted, transferred, monitored, and escalated across the platform.

Requirements

Senior operating background in industrial, infrastructure, aerospace, defense, energy, or other safety-critical environments
Experience building and enforcing enterprise risk, authority, or control frameworks
Lived experience with failure, escalation, or high-stakes decisions
Highly structured, independent, and comfortable holding peers accountable
Capable of wearing task specific personal protective equipment which may include dust mask, safety shoes, gloves, safety glasses, and ear protection.
Capable of meeting OSHA standards for manual lifting guidelines: < 50lbs
While performing the duties of this job it is required to stand, walk, and use hands; reach with hands or arms; climb, balance, stoop, kneel, or crouch when necessary for job activity.
Ability to stand and/or walk for extended periods.
Ability to work in a variety of weather conditions and temperatures.

Responsibilities

Enterprise Risk Intelligence, Culture & Early Warning
Establish organization-wide mechanisms that surface risk early across operations, products, finance, customers, and investments
Institutionalize learning from failures, near-misses, and external industry events
Maintain a forward-looking, enterprise-level view of material risks across GVW
Reinforce a culture where risk is discussed factually, early, and without politics
Crisis Preparedness, Business Continuity & Resilience
Own crisis-readiness frameworks and escalation protocols across the group
Lead scenario planning, pre-mortems, and executive simulations
Coordinate preparedness and response for high-impact events, including: Safety or product failures Cyber incidents Regulatory actions Material litigation or reputational events Supply-chain or operational disruptions
Technology, Cyber, Data & AI Risk
Govern enterprise risk related to: Cybersecurity and cyber-physical systems Connected products, telematics, diagnostics, and remote access Data governance, privacy, and model risk AI-enabled decision-making and automation
Ensure clear accountability for AI outputs, defined limits on automated authority, human override, and auditable escalation paths
Product Safety, Quality, Warranty & Liability
Oversee enterprise risk related to: Product safety and liability exposure Warranty policy, warranty-tail exposure, and reserve adequacy Engineering and system-integration risk Field reliability, service performance, and uptime commitments
Partner with engineering, operations, service, legal, and finance to ensure appropriate risk gates before launches, major changes, or new commitments
Legal, Regulatory & Compliance Risk (Enterprise Framing)
Maintain visibility over material enterprise risks related to: Regulatory obligations (safety, environmental, labor, trade, etc.) Contractual risk terms (indemnities, guarantees, limitations of liability) Litigation trends and claim patterns
Ensure legal and regulatory risks are framed upstream in decisions, not handled reactively
Financial, Treasury, & Counterparty Risk
Partner with Finance to oversee enterprise exposure related to: Counterparty and credit exposure (customers, suppliers, insurers, banks) Concentration and correlation risk across the platform Structural fraud risk arising from control weaknesses
Insurance Strategy & Risk Transfer
Own the enterprise approach to risk transfer and insurance strategy, including: Coverage architecture aligned to actual exposures Claims governance and trend oversight Understanding and communication of uninsured and self-insured risk
Ensure insurance complements—rather than substitutes for—structural risk control
Capital Commitment & Investment Risk
Embed risk discipline into: Capital allocation decisions Acquisitions, minority investments, and exits Guarantees, warranties, and long-term obligations
Evaluate exposure related to: Irreversibility and duration Control and visibility limits Leverage and financing structures
Operational, Supply-Chain & Geopolitical Risk
Govern risk related to: Supplier concentration and single points of failure Critical parts and logistics dependencies Geopolitical sourcing and trade disruption Plant and throughput resilience
Segregation of Duties & Structural Controls
Design and Test segregation of duties so no individual or function controls: Origination Approval Execution Reconciliation
Ensure separation between commercial incentives, risk acceptance, and financial execution
Decision Authority, Approvals & Signing Rights
Design, implement, and maintain GVW’s group-wide framework for: Delegation of authority Approval thresholds Signing rights
Ensure authority aligns with risk magnitude, duration, and reversibility
Identify and correct drift between documented authority and actual practice
Enforce adherence and escalate breaches
Governance Cadence & Truth Infrastructure
Establish a high-signal operating cadence for risk review and escalation
Provide leadership with a clear view of where GVW is implicitly taking risk
Ensure accountability for remediation, not just reporting