Freelance Project Manager for Operations
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About the Role
Pivot Prime is sourcing a freelance Project Manager to embed with a luxury goods client in Dubai. The role involves owning day-to-day operational delivery, managing the full order lifecycle, and coordinating with suppliers.
Key Skills for This Role
Responsibilities
- Single point of ownership for each project, coordinating design, sourcing, production, QC, and logistics
- Managing the full order lifecycle: brief intake, costing and quotation, sampling and client approval, production confirmation, quality control, fulfilment, and delivery
- Liaising directly with a supplier network across the UAE and Saudi Arabia
- Tracking timelines and SLAs, flagging risks early, and escalating when needed
- Maintaining supplier and client scorecards to support better decision making over time
Requirements
- 4–8 years in project management, operations, or supply chain, ideally in retail, luxury goods, FMCG, gifting, or another production heavy environment
- Comfortable managing multiple moving parts: sourcing, manufacturing timelines, customs/logistics across GCC borders, and client expectations
- Strong stakeholder management, confident running a project end to end without close supervision
- Must hold your own valid UAE freelance permit and residence visa (self sponsored)
- GCC experience preferred; Arabic a plus but not required
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Engagement
- Freelance / fractional, 3 month initial term with potential extension
- Location: Dubai, on site with the client team (occasional travel within the GCC)
- Reports to: Pivot Prime's CEO but will be working for a luxury goods client.
About the Role
- Pivot Prime is an operations consultancy working with high growth businesses across the UAE.
- We're sourcing a freelance Project Manager to embed with a luxury goods client and own their day to day operational delivery, from client brief through to final fulfilment.
What you'd own
- Single point of ownership for each project, coordinating design, sourcing, production, QC, and logistics so the client isn't chasing four different people for status
- Managing the full order lifecycle: brief intake, costing and quotation, sampling and client approval, production confirmation, quality control, fulfilment, and delivery
- Liaising directly with a supplier network across the UAE and Saudi Arabia
- Tracking timelines and SLAs, flagging risks early, and escalating when needed
- Maintaining supplier and client scorecards to support better decision making over time
What we're looking for
- 4–8 years in project management, operations, or supply chain, ideally in retail, luxury goods, FMCG, gifting, or another production heavy environment
- Comfortable managing multiple moving parts at once: sourcing, manufacturing timelines, customs/logistics across GCC borders, and client expectations
- Strong stakeholder management, confident running a project end to end without close supervision
- Must hold your own valid UAE freelance permit and residence visa (self sponsored; this is a freelance service engagement, not employment)
- GCC experience preferred; Arabic a plus but not required
To apply
- Please include your day rate or monthly rate expectations along with your application, this helps us match you to the right scope from the start.
- Pivot Prime engages freelancers on a service agreement basis. This role is offered on behalf of a client and is not a Pivot Prime employment position.
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