Honeywell
Honeywell is presently hiring suitably qualified and experienced candidate for job role of Director Government Relations. The selected candidate will be responsible for advising and advocating for legislative and regulatory policies that support Honeywell’s business objectives, providing sales support for major contract wins with government customers and state owned enterprises and enabling relevant tax, grant and incentive benefits that lower costs. Also, will work directly with the ME&A President and local leaders to implement the ME&A growth strategy and support all Honeywell businesses across the region.
Duties of Director Government Relations
- Create and implement the GR strategy for the ME&A region in support of the region’s growth strategy.
- Build a network for Honeywell with governments in ME&A region on key issues relevant to Honeywell.
- Provide ME&A wide GR support for the Honeywell businesses in the region.
- Drive engagement and advocacy with regulators on issues and strategies important to Honeywell.
- Partner with businesses to develop government relations strategies related to specific product initiatives and/or business imperatives.
- Serve as subject matter expert on policies and the impact on Honeywell and products.
- Secure, prepare, manage business, function and senior executive meetings in ME&A including strategic meetings with government officials that support business priorities.
- Educate ME&A government officials on Honeywell, including offerings, presence and desire to grow in the region, using relationships to drive policies, legislation, regulations and decisions toward favorable outcomes.
- Drive and manage cross-functional team of attorneys, business leaders, customers, and other government relations team members to develop creative solutions that incorporate government relations into business problem solving.
- Manage and participate relationships with consulting firms and associations.
- Develop and execute a strategic engagement plan for Honeywell GR, business and functional leaders in the ME&A region to positively impact Honeywell’s business priorities.
- Review, develop and execute, with GR leadership, the recommended Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for the ME&A region, on current business priorities.
- Advocate for adoption of government policies, including legislation and regulations, to drive sales for products and services and avoid costs.
- Develop relationships to drive business growth with government customers.
- Expand and enhance Honeywell’s profile in the ME&A to enable growth for Honeywell’s products and services.
Eligibility Requirements
The eligibility requirements for role of a Government Relations Director are as under:
- Bachelor’s/ Master’s degree in relevant field.
- 12-15 years of experience in e government relations role in large multi national company or with government agencies.
Skills & Knowledge Desired
- Expert knowledge of ME&A governments, how they function, how to engage and influence.
- Must be proficient in Arabic and English. Other languages are a plus.
- Ability to synthesize complex information from multiple sources.
- Identify and analyze the most relevant points for the specific audience and communicate effectively verbally or through written formats, including power point.
- Able to interact with a high level of credibility with all levels of leadership, including most senior executives.
- Excellent external stakeholder management (senior public officials, members of congress).
- Need to be able to speak effectively and with credibility to all levels of government as a representative of Honeywell.
- Ability to take issues and develop an effective strategy that allows to be successful on those opportunities and then develop plans to execute those strategies to achieve results.
- Demonstrable record of providing clients with advice that blends government relations experience, expert legislative knowledge, and an understanding of, and appreciation for, a client’s business objectives.
- Acts with urgency, able to prioritize decisions and make decisions quickly and mitigate risk where needed.
- Self-motivated, dedicated team player with a strong sense of ownership and accountability, interested in working to continuously improve the function.
- Highest Integrity, good judgment, and commitment to all laws.
- Able to lead an effective operating system and process to drive results and to measure effectiveness of the group’s outcomes.
- Strong intellectual capacity and high personal standards of excellence.
- Strong work ethic. Willing to do what it takes to get the right results in the time needed. Willing to go beyond.
