Digital Transformation Manager | Real Estate | Shared Services
Job description / Role
Employment: Full Time
Overview of the role
The role supports the regional head of digital transformation in shaping and executing the strategic vision for Al-Futtaim Real Estate's digital transformation roadmap. The individual will play a key role in analyzing emerging digital market trends, assessing the current state of the company's digital maturity, identifying gaps and opportunities, and leading the implementation of digital initiatives.This includes end-to-end oversight of transformation projects to ensure alignment with the company's strategic objectives and long-term vision.
What you will do- Support the development of the Real Estate digitalization strategy in collaboration with senior leadership, offering insights and recommendations on digital gaps, business opportunities, and critical decision points.
- Evaluate the digital maturity and transformation potential across the Real Estate portfolio, identifying high-impact initiatives and translating them into actionable roadmaps and implementation plans.
- Define, develop, and drive the execution of long-term strategic digital plans, ensuring clear timelines, milestones, and alignment with business priorities.
- Lead the end-to-end implementation of digital transformation strategies and digital product initiatives, ensuring successful delivery within scope, budget, and timeline.
- Partner with cross-functional teams to identify, prioritize, and deliver digital initiatives, ensuring seamless integration with operational and strategic objectives.
- Engage and manage stakeholders across various levels of the organization as well as with external partners to ensure alignment, support, and successful change management.
- Serve as the digital transformation PMO, overseeing governance, tracking KPIs, measuring performance, and providing data-driven insights and recommendations for continuous improvement.
- 10+ years of experience in a digital strategy consulting firm, leading multiple digital transformation initiatives, or in a digital transformation role with a proven track record of implementing digital solutions within the real estate sector.
- Demonstrated expertise in designing and executing digital strategies and initiatives.
- Proven ability to manage multiple stakeholders and oversee projects using PMO best practices.
- Strong familiarity with a broad range of digital platforms, tools, and technologies.
- Effective project management abilities, including prioritization and coordination of multiple concurrent initiatives.
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related field.
About Al-Futtaim Group Real Estate
The real estate development and operations arm of Al-Futtaim, Al-Futtaim Group Real Estate is responsible for a multi-billion-dollar portfolio across MENA. With high-quality residential, business, retail, tourism, educational and healthcare developments, the master developer caters to the diverse needs of cities and communities in the region.From origination, conception, development, sales, procurement and construction of mega-projects and the leasing, operation and management of these projects after completion, Al-Futtaim Group Real Estate (AFGRE) has been developing and managing owned landbanks, unlocking the economic potential of the region and contributing to future development for more than 40 years.
Our focus is to enable and invest in meaningful relationships to make our properties the best places to live and work, build additional products and services and enable partnerships to create true value to our customers throughout their entire experience with us.
AFGRE is responsible for master planning of all projects in its portfolio, including two large scale mixed use destinations: Dubai Festival City and Cairo Festival City.
About the Company
Established in the 1930's, the Al-Futtaim Group initially operated as a trading enterprise. Rapid development throughout the 1940's and 50's saw it establish itself regionally as an integrated commercial, industrial and services organisation, positioning itself one of the leading business houses in the lower Gulf region.Today, it operates collectively over 40 companies bearing the Al-Futtaim name, dominates many market segments in the UAE, and has expanded its sphere of operation to include Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman and Egypt.
The Group comprises a diverse range of strategically positioned operating subsidiaries and associate companies, structured to give the Al-Futtaim Group the flexibility and versatility to keep ahead of local competition while keeping pace with the ever-evolving global business scenario.The Groups continued investment in world-class systems technology is clear evidence of its commitment to maintain leading edge performance and service delivery.
The success of the Al-Futtaim Group can be attributed to a business approach that combines the ability to change with the traditional values of integrity, service and social responsibility that define its core business philosophy. This, linked with the Groups belief in decentralisation, gives the heads of the operating companies a high degree of functional autonomy and authority, providing the Group with essential flexibility, and individual employees a clearly defined work culture and sense of responsibility.
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