Manager - Community Engagement, AD Food Hub

AD Ports Group; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 250,000 - 380,000; Full time

Job summary

AD Ports Group's Abu Dhabi Food Hub (ADFH) seeks a Community Engagement Manager to safeguard operations, safety, and compliance in a dynamic live market environment. You will lead client-facing initiatives, oversee outsourced functions, and promote a safety-first culture across tenants and contractors.

With 5 years of relevant experience, you will drive asset protection, revenue retention, and occupancy stability while maintaining high cleanliness and regulatory standards to preserve ADFH's

Qualifications

• Experience in contract management, property management services, or civil/ project management.
• Proven ability to lead teams and manage client/tenant relationships.
• Strong understanding of safety, compliance, and SLA enforcement.

Responsibilities

• Monitor daily market operations to ensure cleanliness, safety, and regulatory compliance.
• Embed safety culture among tenants, clients, and contractors, including training enforcement.
• Oversee outsourced service providers and enforce SLAs with contractors; manage cost controls.
• Build strong relationships to encourage service charge renewals and occupancy renewal.
• Prepare reports on operations, contractor performance, and compliance metrics.

Skills

Client engagement

Contract management

Operations management

Stakeholder management

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business Administration / Operations Management or related field

Job description

Job Description

The Community Engagement Manager at Abu Dhabi Food Hub (ADFH), part of the Economic Cities & Free Zones Cluster at AD Ports Group, is responsible for ensuring the operational integrity, safety, and compliance of the live market environment. Acting as the primary client-facing representative, this role is pivotal in embedding a safety-first culture among tenants and clients, overseeing outsourced operational functions, and maintaining high standards of cleanliness and compliance every trading day. The manager safeguards ADFH's premium positioning by delivering a differentiated, safe, and clean market experience that encourages tenant retention and service charge renewal. Operating under strict cost discipline, the Community Engagement Manager enforces service level agreements (SLAs) and performance deductions with contractors, directly impacting the largest controllable operating costs and protecting the service-charge recovery ratio. By proactively managing revenue protection and health, safety, and environment (HSE) oversight, the role prevents incidents and trading interruptions, ensuring continuous market activity and occupancy. This position is integral to maintaining ADFH's reputation as the safest, cleanest, and most compliant food trading hub in the region, distinguishing it from competitors.

The Community Engagement Manager at Abu Dhabi Food Hub (ADFH), part of the Economic Cities & Free Zones Cluster at AD Ports Group, is responsible for ensuring the operational integrity, safety, and compliance of the live market environment. Acting as the primary client-facing representative, this role is pivotal in embedding a safety-first culture among tenants and clients, overseeing outsourced operational functions, and maintaining high standards of cleanliness and compliance every trading day. The manager safeguards ADFH's premium positioning by delivering a differentiated, safe, and clean market experience that encourages tenant retention and service charge renewal. Operating under strict cost discipline, the Community Engagement Manager enforces service level agreements (SLAs) and performance deductions with contractors, directly impacting the largest controllable operating costs and protecting the service-charge recovery ratio. By proactively managing revenue protection and health, safety, and environment (HSE) oversight, the role prevents incidents and trading interruptions, ensuring continuous market activity and occupancy. This position is integral to maintaining ADFH's reputation as the safest, cleanest, and most compliant food trading hub in the region, distinguishing it from competitors.

Responsibilities

Core & Strategic Responsibilities

Operational Oversight & Compliance

• Monitor daily market operations to ensure cleanliness, safety, and regulatory compliance.
• Embed and promote safety culture among tenants, clients, and contractors, including the execution of training and induction training enforcement.
• Conduct regular inspections and audits to identify and mitigate risks associated to the community (assets, behaviors, bad practices)

Contractor & SLA Management

• Oversee outsourced service providers, ensuring delivery aligns with contractual SLAs.
• Enforce performance deductions and cost controls to optimize operating expenses.
• Track and report contractor performance, escalating issues as necessary.

Client & Tenant Engagement

• Act as the primary point of contact for tenants and clients, addressing operational concerns and feedback.
• Facilitate onboarding and orientation for new tenants, emphasizing safety and compliance requirements. Induction trainings.
• Build strong relationships to encourage service charge acceptance and unit occupancy renewals.

Revenue Protection & Market Differentiation

• Implement strategies to maintain a clean, safe, and well-run market that supports revenue retention.
• Monitor and prevent incidents or stoppages that could disrupt trading activities.
• Support initiatives that enhance ADFH's premium positioning versus competitors.

Reporting & Continuous Improvement

• Prepare regular reports on market operations, contractor performance, and compliance metrics.
• Analyze data to identify trends, propose improvements, and support decision-making.
• Collaborate with internal teams to drive operational excellence and innovation.

People Management Responsibilities

• Lead, coach and develop the community engagement team, setting clear objectives and reviewing performance regularly.
• Direct the day-to-day work of on-site staff and outsourced contractor teams, so that service levels, safety standards and tenant expectations are consistently met.
• Run induction and safety training for the team, tenants and contractors, and keep training records up to date.
• Build a client-first, safety-first culture in the team, and step in on escalations, conflicts or performance issues.

Qualifications

Educational and Technical Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Operations Management, or related field.

Language Skills

• English (Mandatory)
• Arabic (Good to have)

Years of Experience: 5 years of professional experience

Nature of Experience: Contract Management, Property Management Services, Civil Engineer, Project Management.