Senior Manager - Strategic Projects, CEO Office

Calo; Dubai; Remote; AED 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading meal delivery app is seeking a Senior Manager to partner with the Chief of Staff and CEO. This dynamic role involves leading strategic initiatives, creating high-profile deliverables, and maintaining oversight of key projects. Ideal candidates are strategic thinkers with excellent project management skills. Innovative application methods are encouraged to showcase fit with the company’s culture.

Qualifications

• Experience in driving strategic projects and initiatives.
• Ability to support leaders in new market segments and models.
• Excellent project management skills.

Responsibilities

• Partner with the Chief of Staff and CEO to execute strategic initiatives.
• Lead the creation of deliverables for high-stakes meetings.
• Maintain a broad view of key initiatives and ensure project momentum.

Job description

Overview

We could give you a traditional job description. But that wouldn’t do this role (or you or us) justice. This isn’t your average strategy role. You won’t be parked behind a spreadsheet or confined to theoretical frameworks. You’ll be in the arena – sleeves rolled up, mind racing, making things happen. You’ll be the right hand to the Chief of Staff. What does that mean? Listen to him here to understand what the role is all about — just the first 5 minutes of the video will do.

Code Words: Alignment Collaboration Execution.

The role can be based in Dubai, Riyadh, or Bahrain.

About Calo

Calo is an app providing personalized meal plans for busy people through nutritional algorithms built with love by chefs, nutritionists, and software engineers. Launched in Bahrain in 2019, we have since expanded to 6 countries, delivered millions of meals to our customers, and launched our own Grab & Go Cafe concepts. We are on a noble mission to make healthy easy. We have global ambitions – no small thinking here. More about Calo here.

What you will do

• Driving strategic projects – You saw this one coming! You’ll partner with the Chief of Staff, CEO, and teams across Calo to lead and execute initiatives that shape how we operate. To be tangible: think strategy playbooks, OKRs, org transformation, customer-centricity initiatives, operating models, cross-functional collaboration, AI enablement—the things that actually matter to how a company runs. If these terms make sense to you, carry on. If not, you’ve probably stopped reading already.

• Supporting the zero-to-one – The magic of the 0→1 phase: blank slates, new segments, new geographies, new models. Your role is to support the leaders of these initiatives in whatever way possible to help them reach PMF. If you know what PMF is, that’s a plus; if not, it’s not a dealbreaker.

• Sprinting through high-stakes moments – You’ll lead the charge in creating top-tier deliverables for strategic instances: board meetings, leadership off-sites, town halls, business retrospectives, etc. This is high visibility work.

• Mastering the masterview – You’ll help maintain (and elevate) a birds-eye view of all key initiatives. Follow up, unlock support, facilitate, reframe — whatever it takes to keep momentum going.

• Most importantly filling the gaps – This role requires serious mental agility. There’s no room for mentioning things that aren’t part of the JD. You’ll often solve problems that aren’t on your to-do list because someone needs to and you can.

Who you are

If we haven’t scared you off yet, ask yourself: Are you a living paradox? Here’s a quick test — answer these 6 questions:

• Am I strategic and grounded at the same time
• Am I a thinker and a doer at the same time
• Am I a storyteller and a pro of SOPs at the same time
• Am I extremely structured and agile at the same time
• Am I an excellent project manager and a partner to leaders at the same time
• Am I a relentless follow-upper and a relationship builder at the same time

If you answered yes to 5 out of 6, keep going.

Butterflies in your belly. You’re almost there. The only remaining question is: how to apply

Hint: not your traditional application.

We get lots of candidates who reach out and we’re always humbled by the interest. But it’s impossible to tell who’s a killer candidate from a black-and-white A4. So: put some love into your application.

Try a Loom, a Notion page, a deck, a video, a voice note — whatever it takes to tell us who you are and why you think you’d be a great fit.

Required Experience

Senior Manager