
Bloom Holding
Senior Manager - Master Planning
- Permanent
- Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- Experience 10 - 15 yrs
- Urgent
Job expiry date: 02/10/2025
Job overview
Date posted
18/08/2025
Location
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Salary
AED 40,000 - 50,000 per month
Compensation
Comprehensive package
Experience
10 - 15 yrs
Seniority
Senior Manager
Qualification
Bachelors degree
Expiration date
02/10/2025
Job description
The Senior Manager - Master Planning at Bloom Holding will be responsible for leading the master planning function across large-scale developments in Abu Dhabi. The role involves defining land use strategies, overseeing the design and coordination of zoning, infrastructure, traffic, and development phasing, while ensuring alignment with business goals and regulatory frameworks. The position requires engaging with consultants, including master planners, infrastructure specialists, and traffic engineers, while coordinating inputs from internal departments such as Design, Delivery, Sales, and Marketing. The Senior Manager will liaise with authorities and master developers to secure planning approvals, plot allocations, and ensure compliance with zoning regulations, FAR requirements, and infrastructure guidelines. Responsibilities include reviewing and validating master planning documents such as GFA breakdowns, land budgets, and zoning summaries, ensuring completeness, accuracy, and consistency of submissions. The role also supports feasibility studies, highest-and-best-use assessments, and provides technical inputs for investment committee submissions and strategic land acquisitions. The candidate must have 10–15 years of master planning or urban development experience, strong knowledge of UAE regulatory processes, and proficiency in CAD, GIS, and planning tools. Strong written, visual, and verbal communication skills are required to deliver planning presentations to leadership, partners, and key stakeholders.
Required skills
Key responsibilities
- Define land use vision and strategy for all large-scale masterplans
- Develop high-level master plans integrating zoning, infrastructure, traffic, community needs, and phasing
- Ensure plans are commercially viable, sustainable, and aligned with long-term growth
- Engage and manage consultants including master planners, infrastructure experts, and traffic engineers
- Coordinate with Design, Delivery, Sales, and Marketing teams to align planning inputs
- Deliver planning presentations to leadership, JV partners, and stakeholders
- Ensure compliance with UAE regulatory codes, FAR requirements, and infrastructure guidelines
- Liaise with master developers and local authorities for approvals, plot allocation, and zoning
- Integrate roads, utilities, open spaces, and infrastructure corridors into masterplans
- Develop construction and sales phasing strategies based on infrastructure and market absorption
- Review and validate GFA breakdowns, land budgets, and zoning summaries
- Ensure accuracy and consistency of planning submissions and reports
- Support feasibility studies and highest-and-best-use assessments
- Provide updates on planning status, approvals, risks, and opportunities
- Support investment committee submissions with technical planning input
- Guide junior team members and promote planning best practices
Experience & skills
- Hold a Bachelor’s degree in Urban Planning, Architecture, Civil Engineering, or related field
- Have 10–15 years of experience in master planning or urban development
- Possess strong knowledge of UAE master planning regulations and authority processes
- Demonstrate expertise in infrastructure planning and zoning compliance
- Be familiar with CAD, GIS, and other master planning tools
- Exhibit strong written, visual, and verbal presentation skills