Sr. Specialist Real Estate - Expansion
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About the Role
Talabat seeks a Senior Specialist Real Estate to manage end-to-end site management including scouting, lease negotiation, and landlord relationships. The role requires 5-8 years of real estate experience in retail, F&B, e-commerce, or logistics.
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Responsibilities
- Identify, evaluate, and propose suitable real estate options based on business needs
- Maintain a strong pipeline of potential properties aligned with expansion strategy
- Build and maintain strong relationships with landlords and property managers
- Lead lease and renewal negotiations, securing favorable terms
- Collaborate with legal and finance teams to ensure timely finalization of contracts
- Proactively manage upcoming renewals and exits to mitigate risk
- Conduct rent benchmarking against market rates
- Drive cost optimization initiatives across the portfolio
- Conduct due diligence on prospective sites, including verification of Title Deed and ownership
- Ensure compliance with UAE real estate regulations including RERA, Ejari, and municipality approvals
- Coordinate property handover between landlords and internal construction teams
Requirements
- 5 8 years of experience in real estate, leasing, or property management
- Experience ideally in Retail, F&B, E commerce or logistics environment
- Proven ability to negotiate commercial contracts and manage stakeholders under time pressure
- Strong relationship building and interpersonal skills
- High attention to detail, with ability to manage multiple priorities
- Comfortable working cross functionally and escalating bottlenecks when needed
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Job Description
- The Senior Specialist, Real Estate is responsible for end to end site management, from scouting and lease negotiation to serving as the primary point of contact between Talabat and its landlords.
- This role requires strong negotiation skills, relationship management, and ability to troubleshoot real estate related issues across departments.
What's On Your Plate
- Identify, evaluate, and propose suitable real estate options based on the needs of business functions.
- Maintain a strong pipeline of potential properties aligned with Talabat’s expansion strategy.
- Collaborate with commercial and data teams to align site selection.
- Manage ethical non conflicting relationships with external real estate brokers, consultants, and advisors.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with landlords, property managers, and building management POCs.
- Act as the single point of contact between landlords and internal teams.
- Lead lease and renewal negotiations, securing favorable terms.
- Collaborate with legal and finance teams to ensure timely finalization of contracts.
- Proactively manage upcoming renewals and exits to mitigate financial or operational risk.
- Conduct rent benchmarking against market rates.
- Drive cost optimization initiatives across the portfolio.
- Work with business teams to address property related issues.
Qualifications
- 5 8 years of experience in real estate, leasing, or property management — ideally in a Retail, F&B, E commerce or logistics environment.
- Proven ability to negotiate commercial contracts and manage stakeholders under time pressure.
- Strong relationship building and interpersonal skills.
- High attention to detail, with the ability to manage multiple priorities.
- Comfortable working cross functionally and escalating bottlenecks when needed.
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