Strategic Projects Manager

• Duties & Responsibilities:
• Act as the CEO Office project lead for corporate restructuring and strategic projects.
• Coordinate with external consultants, lawyers, tax advisers, auditors, banks, authorities and internal teams.
• Support project activities relating to SPV formation, unit de-linking, holding structures and legal-entity changes.
• Understand consultant recommendations and break them into tasks, owners, due dates, dependencies and decision points.
• Ask relevant questions to clarify logic, assumptions, documents required, risks and timelines.
• Maintain master project tracker, action register, decision log, risk/dependency log and weekly status dashboard.
• Follow up with Finance, Legal, Sales/Admin, Operations, IT/ERP, consultants and other departments for closure.
• Identify gaps, delays and risks early and escalate to the CEO with facts, impact, options and recommended next step.
• Prepare clear MOMs, CEO updates and consultant follow-up notes.
• Ensure deliverables, approvals, files and decisions are properly documented and traceable.
• Handle confidential business, financial, legal and family-business information with discretion.
• Required Qualifications and Skills:
• Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Finance, Commerce, Law, Management, Engineering or related field.
• Preferred Qualification: PMP/PRINCE2/project-management certification corporate-services or governance qualification.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in Project Management of Strategic Projects (including a minimum 3 years within UAE/GCC experience)

Industry Experience within Real Estate for Coordinating Cross-Functional Strategic Projects from the Head Office with Internal Departments and External Consultants/Advisers.

Hands-on Experience with Advanced Microsoft Excel/PowerPoint/Word/Outlook, MS Project / Monday.com / Smartsheet / Asana or similar project-tracking tools. (ERP or CRM exposure preferred)

• Key Skills:
• Strong project-management and project-tracking discipline
• Ability to understand consultant inputs and convert them into action points, owners, deadlines
• and dependencies
• Strong business acumen, logical reasoning and attention to detail
• Ability to ask the right questions, identify gaps and challenge unclear inputs professionally
• Cross-functional coordination with Finance, Legal, Sales/Admin, Operations, IT/ERP, consultants
• and senior management
• Strong follow-up discipline, escalation judgement and closure mindset
• Clear MOMs, decision logs, dashboards and CEO updates
• Confident English communication with CEO, department heads, consultants, lawyers and
• advisers
• Dynamic, assertive, presentable and commercially practical personality
• High confidentiality and professional maturity
• Language Skills
• Fluent Verbal Skills at Arabic and English.
• Well versed at written English for communication, documentation and presentation skills.
• Other Details:
• Working days and hours: Sunday to Friday (9 hrs/day - 5.5 days/week) 8:30 until 17:30 (or based on project/client requirements)
• Location & Mobility: Currently based in Ajman, UAE and flexible to travel across UAE/GCC for project phase when required for office and authority coordination.
• Allowances / Benefits: As per company policy and UAE labour law.
• Bonuses: As per company policy and performance.