Job description

The Senior Manager New Business and Incubation at Al-Futtaim Automotive drives innovation and shapes the future automotive portfolio by identifying new brands, partnerships, and business models, building incubation roadmaps, and executing priority initiatives across UAE and international markets. Operating in a fast-paced, start-up-like environment, the role applies agile methodologies and supervises scrum teams through exploration, validation, and execution phases. Responsibilities span creating and managing a funnel of incubation ideas across passenger cars, commercial vehicles, and two-wheelers; collaborating with Department Heads and Brand MDs to prioritize strategic projects and define business concepts; evaluating market potential and developing business cases for approval; managing project budgets and dashboards to track progress; working with internal and external stakeholders to define roadmaps and go-to-market strategies that deliver valuable outcomes; and gathering domestic and international market insights to craft compelling customer propositions. The role requires 10+ years’ experience in strategy consulting, new business, or product/service development within the automotive industry, a proven track record of building disruptive products/services and taking them to market, strong analytical, negotiation, and communication skills, experience in business case development, due diligence, and project portfolio management, and leadership of cross-functional teams in dynamic environments. A Business or Finance degree is required, with an MBA preferable, plus deep automotive knowledge and experience with agile methodologies and incubation processes.