Manager, Planning And Value Chain Optimization

Job purpose

Lead integrated planning and value chain optimization across ADNOC Gas – current assets, ongoing projects and emerging opportunities – to maximize value, flexibility and capital efficiency and optimize capital deployment.

Key accountabilities

• Lead integrated asset portfolio management across current assets, ongoing projects and emerging opportunities.
• Conduct comprehensive value chain assessments and ensure alignment with ADNOC Upstream, DM&T and other Group entities to capture synergies and unlock value across the gas value chain.
• Develop and maintain long-term capacity, production and infrastructure plans, ensuring strategic integration across assets, projects and future expansions, including long-term production planning for the business plan.
• Identify, conduct initial high-level evaluation of, and prioritise new growth projects including debottlenecking, capacity expansions and capital investments that enhance portfolio competitiveness.
• Optimize long-term molecule allocation and supply–demand balancing for maximum portfolio efficiency and sustainable profitability.
• Support investment governance through robust portfolio analytics, scenario testing and strategic recommendations to executive management.
• Screen opportunities to avoid, defer or optimize CAPEX before new builds, and quantify and minimise curtailment using portfolio optimization logic.
• Build, lead and develop the planning and optimization team, with emphasis on UAE National development in line with Emiratisation targets.
• Operate at portfolio level while the deep technical bench for simulation and design sits in Engineering – the role must direct without owning that resource.
• Manage a cross-divisional matrix interface without slowing decision cycles.
• Protect technical credibility and retention through an organisational transition of an existing high-performing team.
• Balance near-term optimization value against the long-term signals coming from Business Intelligence (Outlooks & Scenario Planning).
• Make recommendations that survive Investment Committee and value assurance scrutiny.
• Ensure continuity of delivery through the transition with no loss of the CAPEX avoidance and capacity unlock track record.
• Be a single, trusted long-term capacity and production plan used by Finance, Marketing and Operations.
• Maintain a live, prioritised growth projects pipeline with defensible high-level economics.
• Be the interface with Engineering on priorities flow out, technical answers flow back.
• Ensure proper documentation, verification and value delivered.

Minimum requirements

Bachelor degree in Engineering or Business.

At least 10 years experience in integrated planning and value chain optimization.