Executive Program Director - UAE Program

UAN – 23DBC4

About the Role - The Executive Program Director will lead MVG’s largest program: a confidential UAE based project with a 33-month delivery horizon, demanding deadlines and technical risks. This role owns end-to-end execution, P&L performance, governance and stakeholder alignment, reporting directly to the Group Chief Program Officer. It is designed for a senior program leader who can make sound day-to-day decisions, drive accountability across multidisciplinary teams and deliver complex outcomes under confidentiality constraints.

About MVG MVG – Microwave Vision Group – is the global leader in electromagnetic field measurement solutions. With 400 employees, offices across 4 continents, and over 25 years of consecutive growth, we help the world's most innovative companies test, validate, and push the boundaries of wireless technology. Our mission: Testing Connectivity for a Wireless World. Join us to shape the future.

Responsibilities

• Lead the integrated execution of the 33-month UAE program, ensuring delivery against approved scope, schedule, budget, quality and performance requirements.
• Manage the program P&L, including forecasting, cost control, cash flow, commitments, variance recovery and financial discipline.
• Oversee a multidisciplinary team of approximately 14 FTE, including direct management of the Project Systems Lead, Project Manager and Operations Manager.
• Drive schedule, delivery and technical risk management by maintaining an integrated plan, identifying critical-path threats and implementing mitigation or recovery actions.
• Ensure robust program governance, including controls, reporting, change management, risk management and decision-making processes.
• Collaborate with the Financial Controller, senior leaders, functional teams, partners and relevant stakeholders while protecting project confidentiality.
• Provide concise, evidence-based updates to the Group Chief Program Officer on progress, forecasts, financial status, key risks and required decisions.

Requirements - Senior leadership experience directing complex, multidisciplinary programs or projects with demanding delivery requirements.

- Demonstrated accountability for delivery against approved schedules, budgets, scope, quality and performance baselines.

- Proven experience managing program or project financial performance, including P&L ownership, forecasting, cost control, cash flow and variance recovery.

- Strong ability to lead technical, project and operational specialists and coordinate a wider team of approximately 14 FTE.

- Sound judgement in day-to-day decision-making, resource allocation, risk management, issue resolution and escalation.

- Ability to engage effectively with senior executives, cross-functional stakeholders, partners and functional teams.

- Willingness and ability to be based in the United Arab Emirates for the full 33-month assignment, with discretion appropriate to a confidential program.

Nice to Have

• Experience leading confidential or sensitive international programs with strict stakeholder alignment and reporting requirements.
• Background in high-tech, engineering, antenna measurement, RCS, EMC or similarly complex technical environments.
• Strong track record of recovering schedule, financial or technical variances on critical path programs.
• Experience establishing program controls, governance frameworks and transparent executive reporting from execution through delivery.