Business Manager

Budsbear LLC; Ajman; On-site; AED 400,000 - 720,000; Full time

Job summary

Budsbear LLC is seeking a seasoned Project Leader for the CEO Office to drive corporate restructuring and strategic initiatives. You will coordinate with external consultants, lawyers, tax advisers, auditors, banks and internal teams across the UAE/GCC, turning recommendations into actionable tasks with owners, due dates and dependencies.

The role requires minimum 8 years in project management of strategic or restructuring projects, with strong MS Office and project-tracking tool skills, plus

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Finance, Commerce, Law, Management, Engineering or related field.
• Minimum of 8 years of experience in Project Management or Corporate Restructuring (3+ UAE/GCC).
• Hands-on experience with MS Project or alternative project-tracking tools.

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 SPV formation, unit de-linking, holding structures and legal-entity changes.
• Break down consultant recommendations into tasks, owners, due dates, dependencies and decisions.
• Maintain master project tracker, action register, decision log and weekly status dashboard.
• Follow up with Finance, Legal, Sales/Admin, Operations, IT/ERP and consultants for closure.
• Identify gaps, delays and risks early and escalate to the CEO with options and next steps.
• Prepare clear MOMs, CEO updates and consultant follow-up notes.
• Ensure deliverables and decisions are properly documented and traceable.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder coordination

Risk & issue tracking

English communication

Executive summary & reporting

Questioning & clarity

Leadership support

Confidentiality

Education

Bachelor's degree

MBA or PMP/PRINCE2

LLB/CS/governance qualification

Tools

MS Project

Monday.com

Smartsheet

Asana

Excel/PowerPoint/Word

Job description

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 escalation 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: 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 & Mobility: Currently based in Ajman, UAE and flexible to travel across UAE/GCC for project phase when required for office and authority coordination.

Skills

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.