Senior Manager – Risk & Resilience
by Omantel ICT in Telecommunications & Networking
The Senior Manager – Risk & Resilience is responsible for leading enterprise risk management and resilience frameworks within Omantel’s Governance, Regulatory & Compliance division. The role focuses on ensuring structured identification, assessment, mitigation, and monitoring of strategic, operational, financial, compliance, and emerging risks while safeguarding enterprise business continuity and crisis preparedness. Reporting to the General Manager, Governance Compliance & Sustainability, the position leads the Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) framework and ensures alignment with enterprise risk appetite, governance structures, and reporting mechanisms. Responsibilities include integrating risk discipline into strategic planning and execution, identifying and assessing strategic, operational, financial, regulatory, and emerging risks, maintaining enterprise risk registers and risk heatmaps, and conducting impact and likelihood assessments across business units. The role oversees the development of risk dashboards and executive reporting frameworks, escalates material risks to senior leadership, and provides Board-level visibility on enterprise risk exposure. The position is also accountable for overseeing the enterprise business continuity framework, ensuring continuity plans are defined, tested, and regularly updated, and coordinating continuity readiness across critical business functions. The Senior Manager leads enterprise crisis preparedness and response planning, coordinates cross-functional crisis simulation exercises, and ensures structured escalation and communication frameworks are in place to strengthen resilience against systemic operational disruptions. The role aligns risk mitigation activities with digital, network, and infrastructure stability objectives while promoting a proactive risk mitigation culture across the organization. The position also ensures alignment between risk management and regulatory obligations by coordinating with Regulatory Affairs and Governance & Compliance teams to mitigate regulatory and compliance-related exposure. Additional responsibilities include promoting risk awareness and accountability across business units, conducting risk training and capability development initiatives, embedding risk-based decision-making practices, collaborating with Internal Audit and Compliance teams, monitoring the effectiveness of internal controls, and tracking remediation of identified control weaknesses. The role requires strong leadership capabilities including assertiveness, conflict resolution, fostering learning and development, leading change and innovation, strategic visioning, and alignment, along with expertise in professional ethics, governance, risk control, and enterprise resilience management.