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Strategic Growth & Business Planning Manager
Hafeet Rail
Abu Dhabi, UAE
Full Time
Manager
Onsite
3 weeks ago
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About the Role
Hafeet Rail is seeking a Strategic Growth & Business Planning Manager to identify and develop growth opportunities, including business cases, facilities development, and strategic partnerships.
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Responsibilities
- Identify and develop new growth opportunities aligned with Hafeet Rail’s strategy, market positioning, and long term expansion plans.
- Explore new ideas, business concepts, facility opportunities, customer led solutions, and partnership models across Oman and the UAE.
- Translate early stage opportunities into structured concept notes, opportunity briefs, business cases, and implementation roadmaps.
- Assess the strategic fit, market relevance, customer value, implementation requirements, risks, and business potential of new opportunities.
- Support the prioritization of opportunities based on value, feasibility, urgency, strategic importance, stakeholder interest, and implementation complexity.
- Lead the development of business cases for new facilities, terminals, logistics services, expansion initiatives, and strategic partnerships.
- Structure business cases to clearly present the opportunity, rationale, market need, operating concept, partnership approach, required actions, risks, dependencies, and recommended way forward.
- Coordinate with internal departments to gather and validate commercial, operational, infrastructure, legal, procurement, financial, and delivery related inputs.
- Develop practical recommendations for management review, or external stakeholder engagement when required.
- Ensure business cases are well structured, realistic, supported by relevant inputs, and aligned with Hafeet Rail’s strategy and implementation capacity.
- Identify, assess, and develop strategic partnership opportunities with customers, ports, freezones, industrial players, logistics companies, developers.
- Support the development of partnership models, collaboration frameworks, commercial concepts, and joint development opportunities.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, or a related field. Master’s degree or MBA is preferred.
- 8+ years of experience in strategy, business planning, consulting, infrastructure development.
- Strong experience in developing business cases, concept papers, partnership proposals, management presentations, and executive decision materials.
- Strong strategic thinking, business planning capability, commercial awareness, and ability to identify and structure new growth opportunities.
- Good understanding of infrastructure, logistics, transport, terminals, industrial zones, ports, rail, or large scale development projects is preferred.
- Ability to assess opportunities from a market, customer, operational, infrastructure, partnership, and implementation perspective.
- Strong PowerPoint and Excel skills, with the ability to prepare clear, structured, and executive level materials.
- Ability to translate complex ideas into simple, practical, and actionable recommendations.
- Strong stakeholder management, coordination, and communication skills.
- Ability to work across multiple teams and manage several opportunity workstreams in parallel.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills in English. Arabic is preferred.
- Creative, proactive, and able to bring structure to new ideas and ambiguous opportunities.
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Job Purpose
- The Strategic Growth & Business Planning Manager supports the identification, development, and structuring of strategic growth opportunities for Hafeet Rail, with a focus on business cases, facilities development, expansion opportunities, strategic partnerships, and new business concepts.
- The role is responsible for translating early stage ideas, customer needs, market opportunities, and strategic priorities into structured business cases, concept papers, executive presentations, partnership proposals, and implementation roadmaps.
- The position plays a key role in shaping opportunities related to freight facilities, terminals, logistics services, industrial developments, customer led solutions, ancillary services, and future expansion initiatives across Oman and the UAE.
Principal Accountabilities
- Identify and develop new growth opportunities aligned with Hafeet Rail’s strategy, market positioning, and long term expansion plans.
- Explore new ideas, business concepts, facility opportunities, customer led solutions, and partnership models across Oman and the UAE.
- Translate early stage opportunities into structured concept notes, opportunity briefs, business cases, and implementation roadmaps.
- Assess the strategic fit, market relevance, customer value, implementation requirements, risks, and business potential of new opportunities.
- Support the prioritization of opportunities based on value, feasibility, urgency, strategic importance, stakeholder interest, and implementation complexity.
- Lead the development of business cases for new facilities, terminals, logistics services, expansion initiatives, and strategic partnerships.
- Structure business cases to clearly present the opportunity, rationale, market need, operating concept, partnership approach, required actions, risks, dependencies, and recommended way forward.
- Coordinate with internal departments to gather and validate commercial, operational, infrastructure, legal, procurement, financial, and delivery related inputs.
- Develop practical recommendations for management review, or external stakeholder engagement when required.
- Ensure business cases are well structured, realistic, supported by relevant inputs, and aligned with Hafeet Rail’s strategy and implementation capacity.
- Identify, assess, and develop strategic partnership opportunities with customers, ports, freezones, industrial players, logistics companies, developers.
- Support the development of partnership models, collaboration frameworks, commercial concepts, and joint development opportunities.
Knowledge, Skills, and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, or a related field. Master’s degree or MBA is preferred.
- 8+ years of experience in strategy, business planning, consulting, infrastructure development.
- Strong experience in developing business cases, concept papers, partnership proposals, management presentations, and executive decision materials.
- Strong strategic thinking, business planning capability, commercial awareness, and ability to identify and structure new growth opportunities.
- Good understanding of infrastructure, logistics, transport, terminals, industrial zones, ports, rail, or large scale development projects is preferred.
- Ability to assess opportunities from a market, customer, operational, infrastructure, partnership, and implementation perspective.
- Strong PowerPoint and Excel skills, with the ability to prepare clear, structured, and executive level materials.
- Ability to translate complex ideas into simple, practical, and actionable recommendations.
- Strong stakeholder management, coordination, and communication skills.
- Ability to work across multiple teams and manage several opportunity workstreams in parallel.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills in English. Arabic is preferred.
- Creative, proactive, and able to bring structure to new ideas and ambiguous opportunities.
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