Delivery Director
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About the Role
A confidential infrastructure investment platform seeks an Executive Director – Delivery to lead end-to-end delivery of major PPP transport infrastructure projects in Abu Dhabi.
Key Skills for This Role
Responsibilities
- Lead end to end delivery of major PPP / concession infrastructure projects from financial close through construction completion and handover into O&M.
- Act as the critical interface between investment, development, and project finance teams.
- Take ownership of PPP agreements, concession structures, and major delivery contracts (D&B, EPC).
- Drive engagement with government authorities, regulators, and public sector stakeholders.
- Manage and coordinate technical, legal, financial, and advisory workstreams across complex project structures.
- Lead commercial negotiations and contract structuring, ensuring appropriate risk allocation.
- Ensure delivery aligns with investment case assumptions, financial models, and return thresholds.
- Provide board level reporting and senior stakeholder management.
- Oversee execution through construction phases to successful operational handover.
Requirements
- Proven experience delivering large scale transport infrastructure projects (roads, highways, tolling, tunnels, metro, rail)
- Deep experience across PPP / concession / BOT / DBFOM structures
- Strong commercial and contractual grounding across D&B, EPC, and concession agreements
- Experience working alongside project finance, investment, and feasibility teams
- Ability to operate effectively with government authorities and senior institutional stakeholders
- Technically credible — able to challenge engineering, delivery strategies, and execution plans
- Track record of delivering projects from development through construction to O&M handover
- International experience (Middle East, Australia, Canada, South America) is advantageous
- Not a fit for candidates solely from renewables, oil & gas, or non delivery role
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The Opportunity
- We are supporting a confidential, well capitalised infrastructure investment and development platform on the appointment of an Executive Director – Delivery.
- This is a senior, deal connected role sitting at the intersection of investment, project finance, commercial structuring, and project execution, with full lifecycle responsibility from development through to construction and handover into operations (O&M).
- The focus is on large scale transport infrastructure, including highways, toll roads, tunnels, metro, and rail, within a PPP / concession environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the end to end delivery of major PPP / concession infrastructure projects, from financial close through to construction completion and handover into O&M.
- Act as the critical interface between investment, development, and project finance teams, ensuring alignment from feasibility through execution.
- Take ownership of PPP agreements, concession structures, and major delivery contracts (D&B, EPC).
- Drive engagement with government authorities, regulators, and public sector stakeholders.
- Manage and coordinate technical, legal, financial, and advisory workstreams across complex project structures.
- Lead commercial negotiations and contract structuring, ensuring appropriate risk allocation.
- Ensure delivery aligns with investment case assumptions, financial models, and return thresholds.
- Provide board level reporting and senior stakeholder management.
- Oversee execution through construction phases to successful operational handover.
Candidate Profile
- Proven experience delivering large scale transport infrastructure projects (roads, highways, tolling, tunnels, metro, rail).
- Deep experience across PPP / concession / BOT / DBFOM structures.
- Strong commercial and contractual grounding across D&B, EPC, and concession agreements.
- Experience working alongside project finance, investment, and feasibility teams.
- Ability to operate effectively with government authorities and senior institutional stakeholders.
- Technically credible — able to challenge engineering, delivery strategies, and execution plans.
- Track record of delivering projects from development through construction to O&M handover.
- International experience (Middle East, Australia, Canada, South America) is advantageous.
- Not a fit for candidates solely from renewables, oil & gas, or non delivery role.
Leadership & Positioning
- This role requires an individual who can combine hands on delivery capability with executive level influence.
- Operate comfortably at Board and senior leadership level.
- Act as a bridge between investment, commercial, and delivery functions.
- Bring the credibility to lead within a high performance, deal driven infrastructure platform.
Why This Role
- Opportunity to play a key leadership role within a growing infrastructure platform.
- Exposure to complex, high value PPP transport projects.
- True end to end involvement across the deal lifecycle.
- Significant scope to influence delivery strategy and execution capability.
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