Senior Regulatory Intelligence Specialist

🏗 We're Hiring: Senior Regulatory Intelligence Specialist

📍 Location: United Arab Emirates (Remote)

🕒 Employment Type: Full-Time

💼 Experience Level: Mid-Level to Senior

🌐 Work Arrangement: Fully Remote

About Us

We are a construction-focused organization committed to delivering complex projects through disciplined contract management, operational excellence, risk control, and collaborative project delivery. Our distributed teams collaborate across Project Management, Construction, Engineering, Procurement, Commercial, Legal, Finance, Human Resources, Design, Quality, HSE, Consultants, Contractors, Suppliers, Logistics, Administration, Information Technology, Healthcare, Pharmaceutical Operations, and Executive Leadership to maintain regulatory awareness, strengthen governance, manage compliance risks, and support informed business decisions.

We value accuracy, transparency, accountability, and continuous improvement. Our teams work together to monitor regulatory developments, interpret changing requirements, maintain reliable compliance documentation, and ensure that business operations remain aligned with applicable laws, industry standards, contractual obligations, and organizational policies.

The Role

We are seeking an experienced Senior Regulatory Intelligence Specialist to lead regulatory monitoring, intelligence gathering, impact assessments, regulatory trend analysis, and compliance communications across relevant business functions. The successful candidate will identify emerging regulatory developments, assess their potential implications, translate complex regulatory information into actionable insights, and coordinate with stakeholders to support timely and effective compliance decisions.

This role requires strong analytical skills, regulatory research expertise, risk assessment capabilities, and the ability to interpret legislative changes, regulatory guidance, industry standards, and enforcement trends. The ideal candidate will work closely with Legal, Compliance, Regulatory Affairs, Risk Management, Quality Assurance, HSE, Procurement, and operational teams to anticipate regulatory changes and strengthen organizational readiness.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead regulatory intelligence activities to identify, monitor, analyze, and communicate relevant legislative, regulatory, and industry developments.
• Establish and maintain a structured regulatory monitoring framework covering applicable business activities, operating jurisdictions, and organizational risk areas.
• Monitor new laws, amendments, regulatory guidance, consultation papers, enforcement notices, policy announcements, technical standards, and supervisory communications.
• Track regulatory developments relevant to the United Arab Emirates and other jurisdictions applicable to the organization's operations.
• Monitor announcements issued by relevant government authorities, regulators, ministries, supervisory bodies, and recognized standards organizations.
• Assess the credibility, relevance, authority, and potential applicability of regulatory information obtained from internal and external sources.
• Distinguish binding legal requirements from draft proposals, consultation documents, nonbinding guidance, industry commentary, and voluntary standards.
• Maintain a clear record of regulatory developments, publication dates, effective dates, transition periods, and implementation deadlines.
• Identify emerging regulatory trends that may affect business strategy, operational processes, contractual arrangements, technology systems, and compliance obligations.
• Analyze regulatory developments to determine their potential implications for the organization, its business units, projects, and external stakeholders.
• Prepare concise regulatory intelligence briefs summarizing key developments, affected functions, potential risks, and recommended next steps.
• Translate complex legal and regulatory language into clear, practical information for technical teams, operational personnel, and senior management.
• Conduct preliminary assessments of new or amended requirements to identify potential compliance gaps and implementation priorities.
• Coordinate with Legal and Compliance teams to validate interpretations of complex regulatory provisions and determine the need for formal legal advice.
• Avoid treating preliminary intelligence assessments as substitutes for formal legal opinions or decisions by authorized regulatory specialists.
• Develop regulatory impact assessment methodologies that consider applicability, operational exposure, implementation effort, financial implications, and potential penalties.
• Evaluate the impact of proposed regulatory changes on existing policies, procedures, controls, systems, contracts, and business practices.
• Identify affected departments, accountable owners, supporting stakeholders, and required implementation activities.
• Maintain a regulatory change register documenting new developments, impact assessments, assigned actions, responsible parties, and completion status.
• Track regulatory implementation milestones and monitor progress against established compliance deadlines.
• Escalate significant regulatory changes, urgent deadlines, and high-impact developments to appropriate management and compliance stakeholders.
• Support the development of regulatory readiness plans for upcoming legislative changes, new licensing requirements, and revised industry standards.
• Coordinate cross-functional reviews to assess organizational preparedness for regulatory changes.
• Work with business units to identify process modifications, documentation updates, system enhancements, training requirements, and control improvements.
• Monitor implementation progress and identify delays, resource constraints, unresolved questions, and emerging compliance risks.
• Support the development of remediation plans where regulatory assessments identify gaps or weaknesses.
• Maintain evidence of regulatory change assessments, stakeholder consultations, implementation decisions, and completed actions.
• Develop and maintain a comprehensive regulatory intelligence repository containing relevant legislation, guidance documents, official notices, regulatory interpretations, and supporting research.
• Ensure that regulatory information is appropriately categorized, searchable, version-controlled, and accessible to authorized users.
• Maintain reliable source references, publication dates, retrieval dates, and document histories for regulatory intelligence records.
• Establish standardized procedures for regulatory research, source verification, impact assessment, internal communication, and record retention.
• Review existing regulatory monitoring processes to identify coverage gaps, duplication, outdated references, and opportunities for improvement.
• Build and maintain a regulatory obligations inventory aligned with relevant business activities and organizational responsibilities.
• Map regulatory requirements to business functions, operational processes, internal policies, and existing control frameworks.
• Support the identification of overlapping, conflicting, or potentially inconsistent requirements across jurisdictions and regulatory authorities.
• Coordinate with Legal and Compliance teams to resolve questions regarding jurisdictional applicability, interpretation, and implementation priorities.
• Monitor changes in regulatory enforcement priorities, inspection activity, published decisions, sanctions, penalties, and supervisory expectations.
• Analyze enforcement trends to identify recurring compliance weaknesses, emerging areas of scrutiny, and potential exposure for the organization.
• Review relevant regulatory decisions and public enforcement cases to identify lessons applicable to internal policies and control design.
• Prepare thematic analyses covering emerging compliance risks, common regulatory deficiencies, and potential preventive measures.
• Monitor regulatory consultation exercises and proposed legislation that may affect the organization's activities.
• Analyze consultation papers and draft requirements to identify potential future obligations and business implications.
• Coordinate internal feedback from relevant technical, operational, legal, and compliance stakeholders where consultation responses are appropriate.
• Support the preparation of consultation submissions, regulatory correspondence, and formal feedback documents under authorized review and approval procedures.
• Track the progression of proposed regulations through consultation, publication, approval, and implementation stages.
• Maintain a forward-looking regulatory calendar covering anticipated changes, review cycles,