Head of Group Risk & Decision Governance

GVW Group, LLC•Miami, FL

19d•Onsite

About The Position

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. This is a hands-on, enterprise operating role, not an advisory, audit-only, or compliance-only function. The Head of Group Risk & Decision Governance is accountable for how major decisions are made, escalated, and governed across the group, enabling growth with speed without fragility.

Requirements

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.

Responsibilities

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.