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About Your Role
As the Senior Manager Compliance, you will lead the development, implementation and continuous enhancement of the Qatar Airways Group’s compliance framework. You will oversee all compliance activities across the Group to ensure adherence to applicable compliance laws, regulations and internal standards—covering areas including, Anti Bribery and Corruption (ABC), Anti Money Laundering (AML), Sanctions & Export Control, Third Party Due Diligence, Ethics, Consumer Right, Competitionand Governance.
In this critical leadership role, you will anticipate emerging regulatory risks, provide strategic guidance to executive leadership, and ensure that compliance activities across the Group are effective, coordinated and aligned with corporate risk appetite. You will also lead high impact investigations, oversee compliance audits, and guide the organisation in managing legal, compliance and regulatory exposure proactively.
Your Responsibilities
Compliance Leadership & Governance
• Oversee and direct the Group wide compliance programme, ensuring adherence to applicable laws and regulations, standards and internal policies.
• Lead the development, maintenance and monitoring of compliance frameworks, governance structures and compliance risk management initiatives.
• Identify emerging compliance and regulatory risks and formulate forward looking mitigation strategies.
Policies, Standards & Advisory
• Develop, update and manage compliance policies, standards, procedures and guidance materials.
• Provide expert advisory support on legal and regulatory compliance matters across the Group, ensuring business alignment with best practices.
• Ensure strong compliance integration into business processes, contracts, and operational decision making.
Investigations, Monitoring & Reporting
• Direct internal compliance investigations, including, misconduct, regulatory breaches and third party concerns.
• Liaise with external regulatory bodies and government authorities as required.
• Oversee compliance audits and examinations, ensuring findings are analysed and remediated effectively.
• Prepare high quality compliance reports for senior leadership, Board and Executive Management.
Training & Awareness
• Define and lead the compliance training and awareness programme for employees across the Group.
• Promote a culture of ethics, integrity and accountability across all business units.
Stakeholder & Third Party Risk Management
• Coordinate with governance functions (Legal, IT, HR, Facilities, Security, Risk, etc.) to ensure cohesive compliance operations.
• Support the management of supplier and third party compliance risks, including due diligence, sanctions, export controls, AML and ABC requirements.
Team Leadership
• Lead, mentor and develop a team of compliance professionals to ensure high performance, capability growth and service excellence.
• Set departmental priorities, monitor performance, and drive continuous improvement.
Be part of an extraordinary story
Your skills. Your imagination. Your ambition. Here, there are no boundaries to your potential and the impact you can make. You’ll find infinite opportunities to grow and work on the biggest, most rewarding challenges that will build your skills and experience. You have the chance to be a part of our future, and build the life you want while being part of an international community.
Our best is here and still to come. To us, impossible is only a challenge. Join us as we dare to achieve what’s never been done before. Together, everything is possible
Qualifications
About You
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent with minimum 10 years of job-related experience or Diploma or Vocational Qualification with minimum 12 years of job-related experience. This should be specialised experience in compliance, regulatory, audit or governance disciplines (not in a purely legal advisory capacity).
• Demonstrated experience managing a compliance function in a large multinational or government-related entity.
• Proven experience leading teams and managing complex compliance frameworks and programmes.
• Experience within the aviation industry is preferred.
Technical Expertise
• Strong knowledge of:
o Anti Bribery & Anti Corruption (ABAC)
o Third Party Due Diligence
o Anti Money Laundering (AML)
OR
o Sanctions & Export Controls
OR
o Compliance Risk Management
o Policy & Standards development
o Regulatory relations and compliance advisory
o Data Protection, Privacy & GDPR
• Ability to conduct and lead regulatory audits, compliance assessments, and investigative processes.
Skills & Competencies
• Strong leadership, team building and stakeholder management abilities.
• Excellent analytical, communication and report writing skills.
• Ability to navigate and influence at senior levels across complex organisational environments.
• Proactive, adaptable, and capable of managing multiple priorities in a dynamic environment.
About Qatar Airways Group
Our story started with four aircraft. Today, we deliver excellence across 12 different businesses coming together as one. We’ve grown fast, broken records and set trends that others follow. We don’t slow down by the fear of failure. Instead, we dare to achieve what’s never been done before.
So whether you’re creating a unique experience for our customers or innovating behind the scenes, every person contributes to our proud story. A story of spectacular growth and determination. Now is the time to bring your best ideas and passion to a place where your ambition will know no boundaries, and be part of a truly global community
Our story started with four aircraft. Today, we deliver excellence across 12 different businesses coming together as one. We’ve grown fast, broken records and set trends that others follow. We don’t slow down by the fear of failure. Instead, we dare to achieve what’s never been done before.
So whether you’re creating a unique experience for our customers or innovating behind the scenes, every person contributes to our proud story. A story of spectacular growth and determination. Now is the time to bring your best ideas and passion to a place where your ambition will know no boundaries, and be part of a truly global community.