Senior Portfolio Manager (Asia - Russia)

About the Role
Lead the strategic management of the company’s priority stakeholder portfolio across Asia and Russia, ensuring that relationships, executive engagements, and partnership opportunities are aligned with the company Group and GCEO priorities. Provide regional intelligence and decision-ready advice, establish account strategies for Tier 1 and Tier 1+ stakeholders, coordinate Group-wide inputs, and drive agreed actions and opportunities through to measurable outcomes. Maintain a consolidated view of relationship health, risks, commitments, and value potential, while ensuring continuity and a consistent One the company approach across the region.

Key Accountabilities

Job Specific:

Regional Portfolio Strategy & Account Management

• Lead the development, implementation, and periodic review of the Asia and Russia stakeholder portfolio strategy in alignment with the company Group, GCEO, and regional priorities.
• Own the regional account-management framework for Tier 1 and Tier 1+ stakeholders, including account objectives, engagement cadence, relationship owners, strategic asks, opportunities, risks, and next actions.
• Prioritize stakeholders and leadership engagements using strategic relevance, relationship value, timing, risk, and potential contribution to the company and XRG objectives.
• Maintain an integrated view of existing relationships, agreements, joint ventures, commercial exposure, commitments, and potential collaboration areas across the region.
• Monitor geopolitical, policy, market, and industry developments across Asia and Russia, assess their implications for the company, and provide timely recommendations to senior management.
• Identify and escalate strategic opportunities emerging from stakeholder intelligence, market developments, executive engagements, and inputs from business lines and portfolio companies.
• Coordinate the preparation of executive-ready regional briefings, talking points, engagement plans, country overviews, partnership reviews, and decision papers.
• Lead post-engagement follow-up by capturing outcomes, assigning owners, tracking deadlines, escalating delays, and confirming closure with evidence.
• Ensure stakeholder profiles, engagement history, correspondence, agreements, opportunities, and actions are complete and current in approved SRM systems and dashboards.
• Guide and develop the Senior Specialist, Asia & Russia, ensuring clear priorities, quality standards, knowledge transfer, and continuity of regional relationships.

Stakeholder Engagement & Group Coordination

• Build and sustain trusted relationships with priority government, NOC, IOC, customer, investor, technology, and strategic-partner stakeholders across Asia and Russia.
• Serve as the central regional coordination point between Strategic Relations Management, the company business lines, Group Companies, XRG, Masdar, and relevant UAE entities.
• Coordinate with the company’s China and Japan offices and other regional representatives to align stakeholder coverage, intelligence, messages, and follow-up.
• Ensure a consistent One the company position in stakeholder communications and executive engagements, resolving overlaps and escalating conflicting priorities where required.
• Represent the Division in relevant internal and external forums and support senior leadership engagements, visits, and strategic events across the region.

Governance, Compliance & Risk Management

• Quality-assure regional submissions to senior management, including briefings, talking points, correspondence, and decision papers, for accuracy, completeness, message consistency, evidence, source traceability, stakeholder inputs, and clear recommendations; resolve discrepancies with originators and obtain specialist validation before submission.
• Ensure engagements, messages, and commitments remain within agreed mandates and approval pathways; verify that required approvals are obtained and recorded, and refer opportunities to accountable business owners for evaluation, respecting their decision rights and without assuming investment, transaction, or final approval authority.
• Assess relationship issues, stakeholder concerns, and emerging sensitivities with relevant Directorates to protect value, continuity, and the company’s reputation; recommend coordinated responses, escalate material risks and unresolved decisions, and track corrective actions with relationship owners.
• Maintain awareness of sanctions, trade restrictions, and compliance considerations relevant to the portfolio; seek Legal and Compliance assessment before progressing affected discussions or commitments, and incorporate specialist guidance without independently interpreting requirements or determining permissibility.
• Ensure stakeholder profiles, briefings, correspondence, decisions, and commitments are accurate, controlled, and confidential; preserve source references and version integrity, restrict circulation of sensitive information, and raise potential conflicts of interest or inappropriate requests for internal guidance before responding.

Generic:

Supervision

• Plan, supervise, and coordinate activities within the assigned area to achieve functional objectives and agreed priorities.
• Coach and develop assigned employees, building the capabilities required to perform effectively and deliver business objectives.

Budgets

• Contribute to the preparation of the Function, Division, Department, or Section budget and support implementation of the approved budget and work plans.
• Monitor expenditure, investigate significant variances, and recommend corrective action to maintain effective cost control.

Policies, Systems, Processes & Procedures

• Implement approved policies, processes, systems, standards, and procedures to ensure consistent delivery of work programmes in line with the company requirements and relevant international standards.

Performance Management

• Contribute to the delivery of approved performance objectives in line with the company’s performance management framework.

Innovation and Continuous Improvement

• Develop and implement practical tools and methods that improve the quality, efficiency, and consistency of operational processes.
• Identify opportunities to improve internal processes, benchmark against leading practices, and recommend effective solutions to operational challenges.

Health, Safety, Environment (HSE) and Sustainability

• Comply with all applicable HSE and sustainability policies, procedures, controls, legislation, and the company Codes of Practice.

Reports

• Prepare accurate and timely management information and progress updates to support oversight and decision-making.

Communication & Working Relationship

Internal:

• Vice President, Strategic Relations Management.
• The Executive Office, MD & GCEO Office, the company business lines, Group Companies, XRG, Masdar, the company China and Japan offices, and relevant corporate functions.

External:

• Priority government and semi-government entities, diplomatic missions, NOCs, IOCs, customers, investors, technology companies, and strategic partners across Asia and Russia.
• Relevant UAE government entities, international organizations, and regional institutions.

Qualifications, Experience, Knowledge & Skills

Minimum Qualification

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, International Relations, Economics, Political Science, Communications, or a related discipline.

Minimum Experience & Knowledge & Skills

• 10 years of relevant experience.

Professional Certifications

Core / Technical Skills

• Strategic Stakeholder Management (L4)
• Regional Account Management (L4)
• Strategic Planning and Management (L4)
• Stakeholder Communication and Analysis (L4)
• Executive Briefing and Advisory (L4)
• Geopolitical and Market Intelligence (L3)
• Opportunity Identification and Escalation (L4)
• Partnership Governance (L3)
• Relationship Risk Management (L3)
• Cross-functional Coordination (L4)
• Project and Action Management (L3)
• Negotiation and Influence (L3)
• Corporate Reporting (L3)
• KPI Development and Dashboards (L3)
• Data Gathering and Reporting (L3)
• Digital Stakeholder Platforms and CRM (L3)
• AI Fluency (L3)
• Intelligent Data Interpretation (L3)