Compliance Manager – Governance and Risk – Majid Al Futtaim

Majid Al Futtaim Entertainment is hiring a Compliance Manager – Governance and Risk in Dubai, tasked with implementing a unified compliance framework across Majid Al Futtaim Entertainment (MAFE) and Majid Al Futtaim Lifestyle (MAFL). This is a specialist governance role, focused on building consistent compliance standards across two related but distinct business lines.

The work involves designing and rolling out compliance policies and processes that work across both MAFE and MAFL, working with stakeholders across both businesses to embed those standards into everyday operations, and monitoring compliance performance to catch and address gaps. Because the role spans two business units rather than one, a meaningful part of the job is about building consensus and consistency across teams that may have previously operated with their own separate approaches.

It suits an experienced compliance or governance professional who’s comfortable designing frameworks from the ground up and managing the stakeholder complexity of implementing consistent standards across multiple business lines within a large group.

Running a unified compliance framework across two business lines - entertainment and lifestyle - protects Majid Al Futtaim from the kind of inconsistent, gap-prone compliance practice that tends to develop when business units operate independently for too long, which matters because compliance failures in areas like safety, licensing, or data protection can carry real financial and reputational cost. A Compliance Manager who successfully embeds consistent standards across MAFE and MAFL reduces that risk while also making the group more efficient, since a unified framework avoids duplicated effort and conflicting approaches between the two business lines. This role matters strategically too: as Majid Al Futtaim continues to operate complex, customer-facing businesses across multiple regulatory environments, strong cross-business governance is part of what protects the group's broader reputation and license to operate. It also protects Majid Al Futtaim's standing with regulators across the markets MAFE and MAFL operate in, since inconsistent compliance practice between related business lines is exactly the kind of gap regulators tend to scrutinize closely.

Building and implementing a compliance framework across two distinct business lines gives a compliance professional genuinely broad, cross-functional experience - the stakeholder management and framework-design skills required to make consistency actually work across different teams with different histories are significantly more advanced than maintaining compliance within a single, already-aligned business unit. That breadth is exactly the kind of experience that differentiates candidates for Head of Compliance or Group Governance roles later in a career. Working within Majid Al Futtaim's entertainment and lifestyle businesses also builds specific, valuable sector knowledge in leisure and retail compliance, which is a useful specialization across the wider hospitality, leisure, and retail sector in the UAE and GCC. For a compliance professional ready to move from maintaining frameworks to actually building and rolling them out, this is a strong, visible opportunity to demonstrate exactly that capability. It also builds genuine change-management credibility, since getting two previously separate business lines to adopt one compliance standard requires persuasion and process design skills that go well beyond technical compliance knowledge alone. That blend of technical and influencing skill is precisely what distinguishes candidates for the most senior governance roles. That blend of technical knowledge and influencing skill is rare enough to be genuinely career-defining for a compliance professional.

• Significant experience in compliance, governance, or regulatory risk management
• Experience designing and implementing compliance frameworks across a business or multiple business units
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to drive consistency across different teams
• Good understanding of entertainment, leisure, or retail regulatory environments is an advantage
• Strong analytical and reporting skills to monitor and communicate compliance performance
• Relevant professional qualification in compliance, governance, risk, or law preferred
• Excellent communication and change-management skills