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GVW Group · 4 days ago

Head of Group Risk and Decision Governance

Miami, FL

Full-time

Onsite

Director/Executive

GVW Group is a dynamic private investment and industrial holding company dedicated to growing and starting businesses. The Head of Group Risk & Decision Governance is responsible for designing, implementing, and enforcing the enterprise risk and decision-governance framework across the organization, ensuring that risks are identified, monitored, and escalated appropriately.

AutomotiveFinanceFinancial ServicesVenture Capital

Growth Opportunities

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Qualification

Enterprise risk frameworksCrisis preparednessCybersecurity governanceProduct safety riskFinancial risk managementDecision governanceOperational risk managementSenior operating backgroundHigh-stakes decision makingAccountability

Required

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

Ability to stand and/or walk for extended periods

Ability to work in a variety of weather conditions and temperatures

Company

GVW Group

GVW Group is an investment holding company dedicated to investing in all asset classes with a focus on commercial vehicle manufacturing.

Founded in 1993

Highland Park, Illinois, USA

201-500 employees

https://www.gvwgroup.com/

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