[ref. i88903021] SVP Assets Management - Abu Dhabi
Job description / Role
Employment: Full Time
This role blends strategic oversight, financial management, and retail real estate expertise to enhance the performance and value of a portfolio of assets across the full lifecycle from acquisition and development to operation.
Client Details
Real Estate Development company with strategic growth across the region.
Description
P&L Ownership:- Full profit and loss accountability for assigned retail assets, ensuring financial targets (revenue, NOI, asset value growth) are achieved.
- Oversee the implementation of retail management strategies-covering rent pricing, tenant mix, leasing, and operational optimization-for owned and third-party assets.
- Conduct deep-dive financial analysis (IRR, ROI, ROE) to:
- Evaluate underperforming assets
- Support acquisition or disposal decisions
- Build business cases for asset transformations or upgrades
- Manage delivery of new developments and redevelopment of existing assets, ensuring timely, on-budget completion aligned with the business plan.
- Analyze retail and real estate trends to:
- Identify emerging investment opportunities
- Shape proactive growth strategies
- Advise on acquisitions, transformations, and disposals
Collaborate with Property Management and Leasing to:
- Monitor KPIs (occupancy, NOI, customer satisfaction, asset value)
- Recommend mitigation actions for under-performance
- Contribute to company-wide retail strategy
Interface with Development, Investment, Leasing, and Operations teams to:
- Shape and execute asset-level and portfolio-wide strategies
- Ensure asset delivery aligns with broader commercial objectives
- High impact role offering a very competitive package.
Requirements:
- 12+ years in retail real estate asset management
- 4+ years in a managerial role
- Proven experience managing portfolios with revenue AED 1Bn
- GCC market knowledge and hands-on exposure to retail operations (malls, community retail)
- Strong financial and commercial acumen (P&L, IRR/ROI modeling)
- Strategic thinker with operational awareness
- Excellent stakeholder and tenant relationship management
- Skilled in conflict resolution, negotiation, and cross-functional leadership
- Well-connected with key Middle East retail players
About the Company
Michael Page is one of the world's leading professional recruitment consultancies, specializing in the placement of candidates in permanent, contract, temporary and interim positions with clients around the world.
The Group has operations in the UK, Continental Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Americas. In the Middle East we focus on the areas of:
Finance & Accounting Banking & Financial Services Procurement Property & Construction Engineering & Supply Chain Oil & Gas Technical and Engineering Human Resources Sales Marketing Technology Secretarial Executive Search Legal
The Group operates through 161 offices in 33 countries and employs over 5,000 employees worldwide.
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