Job description
Duties & Responsibilities.
- As a Business Manager, act as the CEO Office project lead for corporate restructuring or strategic projects.
- Coordinate with external consultants, lawyers, tax advisers, auditors, banks, authorities or internal teams.
- Support project activities relating to SPV formation, unit de-linking, holding structures and legal entity changes.
- Understand consultant recommendations or break them into tasks, owners, due dates, dependencies and decision points.
- Ask relevant questions to clarify logic, assumptions or documents required, risks and timelines.
- Maintain master project tracker, action register, decision log, risk or dependency log and weekly status dashboard.
- Follow up with Finance, Legal, Sales or Admin, Operations, IT or ERP, consultants and other departments for closure.
- Identify gaps, delays or risks early or escalate to the CEO with facts or impact or options and recommended next step.
- Prepare clear MOMs or CEO updates or consultant follow up notes.
- Ensure deliverables, approvals, files or decisions are properly documented and traceable.
- Handle confidential business, financial, legal and family business information with discretion.
Required Qualifications and Skills:
- As a Business Manager, you should have a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Finance, Commerce, Law, Management, Engineering, or a related field.
- Preferred Qualification: Masters of Business Administration (MBA) or PMP/PRINCE2/project-management certification, LLB, CS, corporate-services or governance qualification.
- Minimum of 8 years of experience in Project Management of Strategic Projects or Corporate Restructuring 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)
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 and Mobility: As a Business Manager, currently based in Ajman, UAE, or flexible to travel across UAE/GCC for the project phase when required for office and authority coordination.
- Talentac Solutions Budsbear LLC, a global HR consulting firm specializing in recruitment process outsourcing RPO, human resources HR People & Workforce Operations outsourcing, payroll outsourcing as well AI powered assessment and training solutions. With a focus on Africa, the Middle East or Europe, we partner with organizations to streamline HR operations or optimize talent management and deliver compliant or efficient and scalable human capital solutions worldwide.
Skills
Key Skills:
- Strong project management and project tracking discipline
- Ability to understand consultant inputs or convert them into action points, owners, deadlines.
- and dependencies
- Strong business acumen, logical reasoning and attention to detail
- Ability to ask the right questions or identify gaps and challenge unclear inputs professionally
- Cross functional coordination with Finance, Legal, Sales/Admin, Operations, IT or 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.