The posting
Vice President, APAC
Reports to: CEO
Location: Singapore (Travel Required)
Department: APAC Regional Leadership
Direct Reports: Regional operations, commercial, and administrative leaders and support staff, as assigned
Role Purpose
The Vice President, APAC is the senior business leader responsible for the overall performance of the APAC region. The role drives commercial growth and operational excellence, owns regional financial performance, and ensures that business, administrative, people, safety, quality, and compliance activities are effectively coordinated across APAC. This leader translates company strategy into regional priorities and ensures customer commitments are delivered safely, reliably, and profitably in alignment with company values.
Scope of Responsibility
• Serve as the accountable regional leader for APAC strategy, performance, governance, and business execution.
• Drive commercial strategy, customer development, revenue growth, and market expansion across the region.
• Own safe, high-quality operational execution and service delivery across all APAC locations.
• Lead regional P&L performance, budgeting, forecasting, cost control, and resource allocation.
• Oversee administrative effectiveness, reporting, internal controls, and regional compliance in partnership with corporate functions.
• Build regional leadership capability, workforce readiness, accountability, and cross-functional alignment.
• Manage capital planning, asset deployment, and scalable infrastructure required for growth.
Core Responsibilities
1. Regional Strategy and Overall Performance
• Develop and execute the APAC regional plan in alignment with company strategy and approved objectives.
• Maintain clear accountability for the overall performance of APAC locations, including commercial, operational, financial, people, and administrative outcomes.
• Identify regional opportunities, risks, capacity constraints, and investment needs; establish priorities and drive timely action.
• Provide accurate and timely performance reporting, forecasts, and recommendations to executive leadership.
2. Commercial Leadership and Growth
• Lead regional commercial activity, including business development, account growth, opportunity
qualification, and market expansion.
• Build and maintain senior relationships with key customers, partners, and industry stakeholders.
• Ensure bids, proposals, pricing, contractual commitments, and commercial risks receive appropriate
operational and functional review.
• Maintain visibility of the regional opportunity pipeline and drive disciplined follow-through from
opportunity through award and execution.
3. Operational Execution and Service Delivery
• Ensure projects and services are appropriately planned, staffed, equipped, and executed across
APAC.
• Balance personnel, equipment, and capacity among locations to meet customer commitments and
business priorities.
• Establish operating rhythm, performance reviews, and escalation processes that support schedule,
service quality, and responsiveness.
• Serve as the senior regional escalation point for significant operational and customer matters and
ensure effective closure.
4. Health Safety Quality Compliance and Risk
• Set expectations and maintain leadership oversight for HSE, quality, regulatory, and client
compliance across the region.
• Ensure appropriate risk assessments, incident response, investigations, corrective actions, and
follow-through.
• Maintain audit readiness and reinforce consistent standards, controls, and continuous improvement
practices.
• Escalate material business, legal, compliance, customer, or reputational risks to the appropriate
corporate leaders.
5. Financial Performance Cost Control and Assets
• Own regional P&L performance and lead budgeting, forecasting, cost management, and financial
review activities.
• Improve job profitability, labor efficiency, asset utilization, working capital discipline, and variance
management.
• Develop capital and asset plans supported by clear business cases, return analysis, and regional
priorities.
• Partner with Finance to ensure timely, accurate reporting, billing support, collections followthrough,
and financial controls.
6. People Organization and Culture
• Lead, coach, and hold regional leaders accountable for results, collaboration, and alignment with
company values.
• Ensure workforce planning, coverage, capability, certification readiness, succession, and leadership
development support current and future needs.
• Partner with HR on organizational design, recruitment, performance management, retention, employee relations, and compliance.
• Build a connected regional culture across countries, functions, and time zones.
7. Administration Governance and Cross Functional Coordination
• Ensure regional administrative activities, records, approvals, reporting, and internal controls are timely, accurate, and effective.
• Coordinate with Finance, HR, Legal, IT, Supply Chain, HSE, Quality, and other corporate functions to resolve issues and implement company requirements.
• Clarify decision rights, ownership, and escalation paths across locations and functions.
• Ensure local entities and offices operate in accordance with applicable company policies and legal or regulatory requirements.
8. Executive Leadership and Stakeholder Management
• Represent APAC within the executive leadership structure and contribute to company-wide priorities and decisions.
• Communicate regional strategy, performance, risks, and resource needs clearly to leadership and relevant stakeholders.
• Promote collaboration among APAC locations and with other regions to share resources, capabilities, and best practices.
• Lead major regional initiatives and organizational change with clear accountability, communication, and follow-through.
How Success Will Be Measured
• Achievement of approved APAC revenue, sales targets, profitability, budget, cash, and overall business performance objectives.
• Sustainable commercial growth demonstrated through a healthy opportunity pipeline, disciplined pursuit activity, new business wins, and retention and expansion of key customer relationships.
• Safe, compliant, and high-quality execution across APAC, including effective risk management, audit readiness, and timely closure of corrective actions.
• Reliable service delivery, schedule performance, customer responsiveness, resource utilization, and resolution of significant operational issues.
• Accurate and timely forecasts, reporting, approvals, records, and administrative controls, with appropriate escalation and follow-through.
• Effective management of labor, costs, assets, capital, and working capital in support of profitable regional performance.
• Workforce coverage, capability, certification readiness, retention, succession, and leadership strength appropriate to regional needs.
• Strong cross-functional coordination and consistent performance across APAC locations, with measurable improvement and readiness to scale.
Job Requirements
• Commercial diving leadership background preferred; alternatively, significant leadership experience within ship management, marine operations, offshore services, or a comparable maritime services environment. • Demonstrated regional or multi-site P&L responsibility, with a track record of driving commercial growth, operational performance, and financial results.
• Experience leading both commercial and operational activities across international locations.
• Strong understanding of regional business administration, governance, compliance, workforce, and organizational requirements.
• Ability to partner effectively with executive leadership and corporate functions while maintaining clear regional ownership and accountability.
• This role currently has responsibility for Singapore, Busan, and Sydney, as well as other APAC activities assigned to the region. The role will require periodic travel to all assigned location to provide leadership, coaching and mentoring to the local leaders. It will also require ongoing monitoring of these assigned locations for business performance and operational needs.
• The role will also require periodic travel to other locations within the APAC region for business growth and client support. Total expected travel can be up to 20% of the calendar year or as mutually agreed with the Company.
Preferred Skills
• Strong commercial acumen, strategic judgment, and ability to balance growth, customer requirements, risk, capacity, and profitability.
• Deep understanding of commercial diving, marine services, ship management, or offshore operations.
• Experience scaling regional businesses and integrating commercial, operational, and administrative activity.
• Strong stakeholder management, negotiation, leadership, and cross-cultural communication capabilities.
• Ability to lead geographically dispersed teams and manage priorities across multiple countries and time zones.
Physical Demands
• Frequent travel to offices, operational facilities, customer locations, and project sites throughout APAC.
• Ability to visit warehouses, marine facilities, ports, vessels, and operational project sites.
• Ability to work outside standard business hours as required to support business activities across multiple time zones.
• Compliance with all company and client HSE requirements while visiting operational locations.
General Statement
This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of duties and responsibilities. Additional duties may be assigned as required to support regional and company business needs.
