Arabian Private Holdings, a fully remote strategy and governance advisory firm, is hiring a Graduate Project Manager to provide essential coordination and structural support for complex client mandates, including an ongoing engagement for a Dubai-based financial services firm.
 About the Company — Arabian Private Holdings’ Approach
Company Focus: Corporate strategy, governance, and operating model efficiency
Client Base: Significant family groups, listed corporations, and government entities in the region
Working Philosophy: Experienced partners over large associate teams and lengthy methodology decks
Work Model: A fully remote firm prioritizing analytical quality over office overhead
Mentorship Style: Direct involvement in partner-level work rather than formal training programs
Career Impact & Remote Project Coordination Opportunity
Total Flexibility: A permanent, 100 percent remote full-time position
Direct Exposure: Access to senior principals and high-stakes corporate decision-making processes
Real Mandate Involvement: Contribute to significant projects, including a Dubai-based financial services engagement
Career Growth: Learn directly from principals accountable for significant corporate projects
Position Overview
The Graduate Project Manager role provides the essential coordination and structural support required to execute complex mandates for clients, including an ongoing engagement for a Dubai-based financial services firm. This position ensures that principals can focus on high-level advisory while the mechanics of each project remain precise, timely, and well-documented.
Why This Role Matters:Â As Graduate Project Manager, you maintain project timelines and internal resource logs for a current mandate with a Dubai-based financial services firm, conduct targeted research into market trends and regulatory changes affecting client portfolios and holding company structures, assist principals in drafting concise briefing notes and governance frameworks that translate complex data into clear recommendations, track the status of different workstreams to ensure no detail is overlooked during a client scaling transition, form a preliminary view on operational bottlenecks based on client data and internal analysis, and prepare summary reports outlining project progress and highlighting potential risks to the timeline.
Key Responsibilities
Project Coordination & Timeline Management
- Maintain project timelines and internal resource logs for the current Dubai-based financial services mandate
- Track the status of different workstreams during a client scaling transition
Research & Analysis
- Conduct targeted research into market trends and regulatory changes affecting client portfolios and holding company structures
- Form a preliminary view on operational bottlenecks based on client data and internal analysis
Documentation & Reporting
- Assist principals in drafting concise briefing notes and governance frameworks
- Organize internal documentation and records so decision rationale is preserved and accessible
- Prepare summary reports outlining project progress and highlighting potential risks
Stakeholder Coordination
- Support principals in coordinating communication across different stakeholder groups involved in a mandate
Qualifications & Requirements
Educational Requirements
- A degree in business, economics, or a related field demonstrating analytical training and academic rigor
Essential Skills
- A high level of written precision and the ability to explain logical steps clearly in plain English
- Natural curiosity about how large holding companies and financial institutions operate and generate value
- Strong organizational habits to manage multiple threads of a mandate simultaneously without losing focus
- Comfort working in a fully remote environment requiring proactive communication and self-direction
- The ability to identify when a project is drifting from its original scope and call attention to it early
About Arabian Private Holdings
Arabian Private Holdings was founded on the principle that many critical business problems do not fit the traditional large-firm consulting model. A board facing a succession question or a family group weighing a capital injection needs experienced partners who can sit with a problem, form a rigorous view, and defend it. The firm’s work covers corporate strategy, governance, and operating model efficiency for some of the most significant family groups, listed corporations, and government entities in the region, operating as a fully remote firm that prioritizes analytical quality and clarity over traditional office overhead.
Career Excellence: Build foundational project management and governance coordination skills working directly alongside experienced principals on high-stakes corporate mandates, in a fully remote, permanent, entry-level role.
 Who Should Apply?
- Recent Graduates:Â In business, economics, or related fields with strong analytical training
- Detail-Oriented Project Coordinators:Â Comfortable managing timelines and stakeholder communication
- Corporate Governance Learners:Â Curious about how holding companies and financial institutions operate
- Precise Written Communicators:Â Capable of drafting clear briefing notes and governance frameworks
- Self-Disciplined Remote Workers:Â Able to deliver proactively without close supervision
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