Chief of Staff

Role overview

Strategy and business performance

• Coordinate and track strategic initiatives, projects, and executive priorities; turn objectives into action plans, timelines, owners, and measurable outcomes.
• Monitor project progress and follow up with departments on timely execution.
• Support corporate strategy, business plans, annual planning, budgeting, performance reviews, and strategic planning.
• Monitor KPIs, targets, milestones, and organizational objectives; prepare executive dashboards and performance reports.
• Identify operational challenges, bottlenecks, improvement opportunities, risks, dependencies, and execution issues.
• Support organizational change, transformation, restructuring, process improvement, and evaluation of business opportunities, partnerships, and investments.
• Conduct market research and competitive analysis to support business development and strategic decisions.

Executive coordination and communication

• Prepare executive briefings, reports, presentations, meeting materials, and decision documents; conduct research and analysis for executive decisions.
• Coordinate cross-functional projects involving Finance, HR, Operations, Sales, Marketing, Technology, Legal, and other departments.
• Organize and facilitate leadership meetings, strategy sessions, and management reviews; prepare agendas and follow up on decisions, commitments, deadlines, and actions.
• Escalate important issues to senior management in a timely and structured way.
• Support communication with employees, clients, partners, investors, and other stakeholders, and help align leadership decisions with departmental execution.
• Maintain relationships with senior managers, department heads, external partners, and key stakeholders; represent the executive office in selected meetings when required.
• Prepare correspondence, executive communications, internal announcements, and leadership materials.
• Handle confidential business, financial, strategic, and executive information with discretion; support crisis management and urgent priorities.
• Improve executive-office processes, reporting systems, communication structures, and workflow efficiency.

Experience and qualifications

• Experience in executive support, strategy, management consulting, business operations, project management, corporate development, or a related role.
• Strong experience managing cross-functional projects and strategic initiatives; experience with project-management methodologies and performance tracking.
• Experience preparing executive presentations, reports, dashboards, and strategic analysis; understanding of business operations, strategy, financial concepts, and organizational management.
• Strong analytical ability to interpret financial, operational, and business data; experience handling confidential information and sensitive executive matters.
• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills.
• A bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Management, Finance, Economics, Strategy, Communications, or a related field is preferred; a relevant master’s degree is an advantage.
• Direct experience with senior executives or leadership teams is highly preferred; UAE business-environment knowledge and relevant professional qualifications are advantages.

Candidate skills

• Strong organization, time management, strategic thinking, business analysis, project coordination, problem solving, and decision making.
• Ability to manage complex priorities, work independently, collaborate across departments, and communicate with senior stakeholders.
• Professionalism, discretion, confidentiality, integrity, adaptability, and attention to detail.
• Strong presentation, reporting, business writing, negotiation, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Comfort with Microsoft Office, Excel, PowerPoint, project-management tools, CRM systems, and business software.

Opportunity

• Flexible working arrangements are described as full-time or part-time.
• The role offers exposure to strategy, operations, finance, HR, business development, and organizational management, with professional development and potential leadership progression.