Senior Manager, Development

Role Overview

Senior Manager, Development at Majid Al Futtaim (MAF Properties), based at the Head Office. This role oversees mall development and redevelopment projects, ensuring alignment with business objectives, development strategies, and governance requirements.

Role Purpose

The Senior Development Manager – Shopping Malls supports the evaluation of new opportunities through research, analysis, and stakeholder engagement, while coordinating across internal teams and external partners to deliver integrated projects and enhance retail and lifestyle offerings.

Key Responsibilities

Project Delivery

• Lead end-to-end project delivery across complex mixed-use developments, managing project workstreams from feasibility and planning through execution and handover.
• Contribute to the delivery of major mixed-use developments valued between AED 500M and AED 5B+, ensuring strong commercial returns, operational readiness, customer experience excellence, and alignment with strategic business objectives.

Stakeholder Coordination

• Coordinate cross-functional stakeholders including Development, Leasing, Asset Management, Design, Operations, Hospitality, Retail, Lifestyle & Entertainment, Finance, and external partners to ensure integrated project delivery.
• Support governance and stakeholder management, including engagement with authorities, JV partners, operators, anchor tenants, and senior leadership through project reporting and approval processes.

Feasibility & Strategy

• Drive feasibility and development planning, including business cases, development scenarios, masterplan assessments, site due diligence, and strategic recommendations for new opportunities.

Partner & Consultant Management

• Manage consultants, operators, and delivery partners, ensuring design solutions align with commercial objectives, operational requirements, customer experience goals, and development strategy.

Financial & Commercial Management

• Oversee financial and commercial performance by managing budgets, forecasts, cost plans, procurement activities, contract reviews, value engineering initiatives, and business case alignment.

Risk & Performance Monitoring

• Monitor project risks and performance, maintaining risk registers, mitigation plans, project health reporting, and ensuring compliance with governance frameworks and stage-gate requirements.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Civil Engineering, Urban Planning, Architecture, Real Estate Development, Law, or a related field.
• 11+ years of experience in real estate development, mixed-use projects, retail, hospitality, investment, strategy, or large-scale development environments.
• Proven track record of managing complex projects and coordinating multiple stakeholders, business units, consultants, and external partners.
• Deep understanding of development processes, feasibility studies, governance, commercial coordination, project delivery, and preferably UAE regulatory and authority approval frameworks.

Skills & Competencies

• Strong communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence, align, and collaborate across complex matrix organizations.
• Commercially minded, proactive, and solutions-focused mindset with the ability to manage ambiguity, shifting priorities, and multiple workstreams while delivering high-quality, customer-centric outcomes.

Additional Information

• Work in a friendly environment where everyone shares positive vibes and excitement about the future.
• Work with over 45,000 diverse and talented colleagues, all guided by the organization's Leadership Model.
• Majid Al Futtaim has built a reputation as a regional market leader over the past 27 years.