3rd Party Developer Hub Manager

Role Overview

3rd Party Developer Hub Manager at ADNOC Distribution, leading third-party development within the Mobility Hub strategy.

Role Purpose

Lead third-party development within ADNOC Distribution's Mobility Hub strategy by originating, structuring, and coordinating investor and developer projects from concept to handover. Act as the single point of contact for external developers and investors, managing commercial, technical, contractual, and governance requirements needed to integrate sites seamlessly into the Hub ecosystem. Ensure timely approvals, risk-controlled delivery, and operational readiness that strengthen customer experience and portfolio returns.

Key Responsibilities

Partnership Origination & Commercial Structuring

• Identify and qualify third-party development opportunities aligned to hub typologies, network priorities, and investment criteria.
• Prepare and refine commercial models, heads of terms, and term-sheet options to balance value creation, risk allocation, and compliance.
• Coordinate internal inputs from Finance, Legal, and Business Development to validate business cases, sensitivity scenarios, and approval requirements.
• Support investor due diligence covering technical, commercial, and regulatory aspects, addressing queries and aligning key assumptions.
• Draft and socialize decision packs for governance forums, ensuring clear options, risks, and recommendations.

Contract Lifecycle & Risk Management

• Lead the end-to-end contract process from RFI and RFP support through bid clarifications to negotiation of definitive agreements.
• Ensure clarity on roles, deliverables, milestones, warranties, performance securities, and exit or step-in provisions.
• Track contractual obligations and conditions precedent, coordinating timely closure with internal and external parties.
• Maintain a live risk register covering commercial, schedule, technical, HSE, and authority risks, with documented mitigation plans.
• Manage variations and change control, preserving scope, economics, and governance integrity.

Cross-Functional Coordination & Technical Alignment

• Align site layout, access, utilities, and design standards with Engineering Projects, Operations, HSE, and Property Services.
• Coordinate authority requirements including utility providers, municipality, and civil defense to de-risk approvals on the critical path.
• Ensure third-party specifications support hub customer experience through wayfinding, parking circulation, tenant adjacencies, and brand touchpoints.
• Validate readiness criteria for construction start including permits, insurances, method statements, and interfaces.
• Facilitate technical reviews and close-out of comments to keep design and procurement on schedule.

Delivery Governance & Operational Readiness

• Run a stage-based governance cadence covering business case, design freeze, pre-award, start-up, and pre-opening with documented gate criteria.
• Track execution milestones, critical path, and dependencies; escalate slippage early and propose recovery actions.
• Coordinate with Operations and HSE on commissioning, operational readiness checklists, training and handovers, and defects management.
• Validate as-built documentation, warranties, and operations and maintenance manuals prior to handover into steady-state operations.
• Capture lessons learned and feed improvements into playbooks and templates.

Stakeholder Communication & Reporting

• Serve as the single point of contact for developers and investors, providing clear updates, action logs, and decisions required.
• Prepare concise progress reports, dashboards, and risk summaries for Executive Management Team, Executive Leadership Team, and relevant committees.
• Coordinate with Marketing and Brand on key milestones and external communications where applicable.
• Ensure records are audit-ready including approvals, contracts, conditions precedent closures, change logs, and correspondence.
• Maintain confidentiality and adherence to governance, delegation of authority, and information security standards.

Portfolio Performance & Optimization

• Monitor post-launch performance including throughput, uptime, and commercial KPIs to identify improvement opportunities with partners.
• Recommend re-scoping or enhancement measures such as amenity mix, access improvements, and utilities optimization to maximize returns.
• Track contractual performance measures including service level agreements and liquidated damages where applicable, and manage under-performance remedies.
• Support periodic portfolio reviews and rebalancing of pipeline priorities based on performance and market dynamics.
• Contribute to strategy refreshes, investment theses, and international roll-out playbooks as required.

Continuous Improvement & Tools

• Maintain and enhance standard templates including term sheets, risk registers, gate checklists, conditions precedent trackers, and reporting packs.
• Promote use of digital tools for document control, schedule tracking, and stakeholder collaboration.
• Benchmark external practices to refine commercial structures and execution standards.
• Propose process simplifications that reduce cycle time without compromising assurance.
• Support training and knowledge-sharing sessions across the Franchise and Property Services Division.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business Management, Real Estate, or a related field.
• Minimum 8 years of relevant experience in commercial real estate development, PPP or third-party projects, or mobility and retail infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience in commercial modelling, contract negotiation, and approvals including conditions precedent, permits, and utilities.
• Strong exposure to design coordination and delivery governance including stage-gates, risk management, and change control.
• Proven ability to work cross-functionally and manage multiple stakeholders and counterparties to deadlines.

Skills & Competencies

• Commercial acumen including term sheets, risk allocation, and value drivers.
• Contract negotiation and change or claims awareness.
• Technical literacy in layouts, utilities, and basic mechanical, electrical, plumbing and HSE considerations.
• Project governance, planning, and risk management.
• Executive-level communication, presentation, and stakeholder influence.
• Strong documentation, decision-pack preparation, and audit-readiness.
• Proficiency with MS Office and project and collaboration tools such as MS Project, SharePoint, Teams, Asana, and Jira.