
DP World
Assistant Manager â Business Intelligence & Market Research
- Permanent
- Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Experience 5 - 10 yrs
Job expiry date: 10/01/2026
Job overview
Date posted
26/11/2025
Location
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Salary
AED 15,000 - 20,000 per month
Compensation
Comprehensive package
Experience
5 - 10 yrs
Seniority
Experienced
Qualification
Bachelors degree
Expiration date
10/01/2026
Job description
The role supports DP Worldâs container business planning and development by contributing to the creation and updating of business plans aligned with commercial and sales strategies, identifying emerging opportunities through industry research, feasibility assessments, and financial evaluations of new initiatives, and participating in trade promotion activities with local and international trade bodies. Responsibilities include enhancing reporting structures and dashboards across DP World systems, preparing monthly and periodic analytical reports on variations, trends, risks, and opportunities, and developing forecasting and budgeting models for commercial decision-making. The role conducts market and economic research focused on market size, cargo trends, commodity movements, and competitive benchmarking of regional ports and terminals, while monitoring macroeconomic, industrial, and geopolitical developments impacting port performance. The position also supports pricing and tariff analysis, including contract pricing, tariff revisions, profitability modelling, cost-benefit assessments, and competitor benchmarking. Data responsibilities include gathering data from various internal and external sources, maintaining accurate consolidated datasets, and developing dashboards and visualizations using BI tools such as SAS and Power BI. Additional responsibilities include supporting system and process improvement efforts, collaborating with IT, guiding users on data and visualization standards, supporting information system enhancements, delivering RFI/RFP analysis and tender evaluation support, managing project plans for business tenders, maintaining structured databases on service deployments, port performance, tariffs, throughput, and liner volumes, providing quarterly updates to authorities such as Dubai Statistics Center, and supporting the market intelligence function through data repositories, presentations, and dashboards for leadership.
Required skills
Key responsibilities
- Support development and updating of container business plans aligned with commercial and sales strategy
- Conduct industry research, feasibility studies, and financial evaluations of new business ideas
- Contribute to trade promotion initiatives with local and international trade bodies
- Enhance reporting structures and performance dashboards for business intelligence
- Prepare analytical monthly and periodic management reports on trends, variations, risks, and opportunities
- Develop forecasting and budgeting models to support commercial decisions
- Compile and analyze market size, cargo trends, and commodity movements across UAE, GCC, and Levant
- Conduct competitive benchmarking of regional ports and identify improvement areas
- Monitor macroeconomic, industrial, and geopolitical developments affecting port performance
- Support contract pricing and tariff revisions through cost-benefit analysis and competitor benchmarking
- Develop commercial pricing models to balance profitability and competitiveness
- Gather and consolidate internal and external data into unified datasets
- Develop dashboards and data visualizations using BI tools including SAS and Power BI
- Collaborate with IT to improve automation, integration, and reporting systems
- Provide guidance on data access and visualization standards
- Support design and delivery of information system enhancements
- Analyze RFIs/RFPs and tenders, estimate profitability, and produce pricing models
- Define and manage project plans for business tenders and coordinate with stakeholders
- Maintain structured databases for service deployments, port performance, tariffs, and liner volumes
- Provide quarterly updates to Dubai Statistics Center and maintain market intelligence repositories
Experience & skills
- Demonstrated ability to conduct industry and market research across regional markets
- Ability to produce forecasting, budgeting, pricing, and analytical models
- Ability to develop dashboards and data visualizations using BI tools such as SAS or Power BI
- Ability to consolidate and validate data from multiple internal and external sources
- Capability to support RFI/RFP analyses, tender evaluations, and pricing model development
- Ability to collaborate with IT and business teams on automation and data integration enhancements
- Ability to manage multiple stakeholders and maintain structured market intelligence databases
- Ability to monitor macroeconomic, industrial, and geopolitical factors influencing port performance
- Strong ability to prepare management reports highlighting trends, risks, and performance insights