Strategic Projects Manager
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Role Overview
Lead CEO Office projects involving corporate restructuring and strategic initiatives.
Coordinate internal departments and external advisers across complex business projects.
The role requires discretion when handling confidential business, financial, legal, and family-business information.
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Role Overview
Lead CEO Office projects involving corporate restructuring and strategic initiatives.
Coordinate internal departments and external advisers across complex business projects.
The role requires discretion when handling confidential business, financial, legal, and family-business information.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Act as the CEO Office project lead for corporate restructuring and strategic projects.
- Coordinate with consultants, lawyers, tax advisers, auditors, banks, authorities, and internal teams.
- Support SPV formation, unit de-linking, holding structures, and legal-entity changes.
- Convert recommendations into tasks, owners, due dates, dependencies, and decision points.
- Maintain project trackers, action registers, decision logs, risk logs, and weekly dashboards.
- Follow up with Finance, Legal, Sales/Admin, Operations, IT/ERP, consultants, and other departments.
- Identify risks and delays, then escalate facts, impacts, options, and recommendations to the CEO.
- Prepare meeting minutes, CEO updates, and consultant follow-up notes.
- Ensure deliverables, approvals, files, and decisions are documented and traceable.
Required Qualifications and Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Finance, Commerce, Law, Management, Engineering, or a related field.
- At least 8 years of experience in strategic project management or corporate restructuring projects.
- At least 3 years of UAE or GCC experience.
- Real estate industry experience coordinating cross-functional projects from head office.
- Hands-on experience with Microsoft Office and project-tracking tools such as MS Project, Monday.com, Smartsheet, or Asana.
- Fluent spoken Arabic and English, with strong written English for documentation and presentations.
Preferred Qualifications
- MBA, PMP, PRINCE2, LLB, company secretary, corporate services, or governance qualification is preferred.
- ERP or CRM exposure is preferred.
Key Skills
- Strong project-management and project-tracking discipline.
- Ability to convert consultant inputs into action points, owners, deadlines, and dependencies.
- Business acumen, logical reasoning, attention to detail, and professional judgment.
- Ability to identify gaps and challenge unclear inputs professionally.
- Strong follow-up, escalation, and closure discipline.
- Clear minutes, decision logs, dashboards, and CEO updates.
- Confidentiality, professional maturity, and commercially practical communication.
Working Schedule
- Working days are Sunday to Friday, 5.5 days per week.
- Working hours are 8:30 to 17:30, 9 hours per day, or based on project and client requirements.
Location and Mobility
- The role is based in Ajman, UAE, with office and authority coordination responsibilities.
- Travel across the UAE and GCC may be required during project phases.
Benefits and Bonuses
- Allowances and benefits are provided according to company policy and UAE labour law.
- Bonuses are provided according to company policy and performance.
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