Strategic Growth & M&A Leader – Ports & Logistics

Confidential; Dubai; On-site; AED 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Confidential is seeking a senior corporate development professional to drive strategy, M&A and investment evaluation across ports, free zones and logistics, partnering with senior leadership to shape financially grounded decisions.

You will build detailed financial models, lead due diligence, and present results through executive-ready materials, with strong Excel/PowerPoint skills and stakeholder management in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Strong financial modelling, executive presentation, written and verbal communication, and stakeholder-management capabilities.
• Experience in fast-paced strategy consulting, corporate development or investment banking environments.
• Previous experience in logistics and ports is an added advantage.

Responsibilities

• Support or lead end-to-end evaluation of greenfield project feasibilities, business development and M&A opportunities with financial modeling, market research, due diligence and negotiations.
• Build and own detailed financial models with clear risk-return outputs.
• Manage transaction processes with corporate CF&BD team, advisers and legal counsel, including SPA/SHA negotiations and post-close workstreams.
• Lead pre- and post-investment reviews using IRR, NPV, ROI and payback metrics.
• Create decks covering executive summaries and Board approvals.
• Present investments to senior management.
• Define and drive regional strategic agenda with senior leadership and expansion opportunities.
• Develop long-term strategic plans and frameworks for business units.
• Support regional strategy development with regional teams and benchmarking.
• Translate high-level strategy into actionable plans with measurable outcomes.
• Define KPIs and monitor performance against goals.
• Facilitate strategy workshops and cross-functional discussions.
• Demonstrate advanced financial modelling across feasibilities, DCF, multiples, LBO and related metrics.
• Ability to structure ambiguous problems and deliver executive-ready outputs.
• Translate analytics into concise investment papers and slides.
• Experience in due diligence on BD opportunities and acquisitions.
• Deliver complex, cross-functional projects under tight deadlines.
• Proficient in Excel, PowerPoint and leveraging technology/AI.

Skills

Financial modeling

Executive presentations

Stakeholder management

Written communication

Verbal communication

Strategic thinking

Strategy translation

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Confidential is seeking a senior corporate development professional to drive strategy, M&A and investment evaluation across ports, free zones and logistics, partnering with senior leadership to shape financially grounded decisions.

You will build detailed financial models, lead due diligence, and present results through executive-ready materials, with strong Excel/PowerPoint skills and stakeholder management in a fast-paced environment.