Senior Portfolio Manager - Growth & Strategic Investments

Forsyth Barnes Consultancy; Dubai; On-site; AED 600,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Executive influence

Growth exposure

Strategic investments

Dubai-based role

Executive employment provisions

Job summary

Forsyth Barnes Consultancy in Dubai seeks a Portfolio Manager to provide executive leadership across a diversified investment portfolio, guiding strategy, evaluating performance, and ensuring alignment with long-term objectives.

You will drive due diligence, partner with senior stakeholders, and oversee multi-asset investments, including public and private equities, with a disciplined approach to capital allocation and growth opportunities.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in portfolio management, private equity, public equity, investment management, corporate development, or a closely related discipline.
• Demonstrated responsibility for diversified portfolios, complex investment decisions, or multi-asset capital allocation.
• Strong capability in financial analysis, valuation, investment appraisal, risk assessment, and portfolio performance interpretation.
• Proven experience evaluating growth companies and converting investment theses into actionable recommendations.
• Practical understanding of partnerships, joint ventures, transaction processes, and post-investment value creation.
• Executive presence with credibility to influence investment committees, senior leaders, and external partners.
• Commercial judgement, curiosity, and the ability to make balanced decisions under uncertainty.
• Excellent communication skills, including distilling detailed analysis into concise strategic conclusions.

Responsibilities

• Set and refine portfolio priorities across asset classes.
• Direct ongoing review of investment performance, valuation, risk exposure, liquidity, and strategic fit.
• Lead assessment of growth companies and determine suitability for investment.
• Develop investment recommendations supported by rigorous financial, commercial, market, and strategic analysis.
• Identify opportunities to expand or strengthen the portfolio through acquisitions, partnerships, and joint ventures.
• Oversee due diligence, transaction evaluation, investment structuring, and post-investment monitoring.
• Engage with investee companies, advisers, co-investors, and external stakeholders at executive level.
• Present portfolio insights and capital allocation considerations clearly to decision-makers.

Skills

Portfolio management

Private equity

Public equity

Investment management

Corporate development

Executive presence

Job description

Forsyth Barnes Consultancy in Dubai seeks a Portfolio Manager to provide executive leadership across a diversified investment portfolio, guiding strategy, evaluating performance, and ensuring alignment with long-term objectives.

You will drive due diligence, partner with senior stakeholders, and oversee multi-asset investments, including public and private equities, with a disciplined approach to capital allocation and growth opportunities.