Programme & Transformation Manager

Black Pearl Consult is looking for a Programme & Transformation Manager in the UAE. We are seeking a professional with consulting or advisory experience who can bring structure, coordinate multiple projects and stakeholders, track programme progress, and deliver clear reporting across a complex transformation programme.

You will coordinate programme planning, budgets, governance, and transformation activities. Working with senior leaders, project owners, and external partners, you will maintain visibility of progress, address delivery risks, and support informed decisions.

This opportunity suits someone who has handled varied consulting engagements and combines analytical skills with practical experience implementing change.

Key Responsibilities:

• Maintain an integrated programme plan covering projects, milestones, approvals, and dependencies.

• Work with Finance to consolidate budgets, monitor expenditure, and track approved changes and cost allocations.

• Prepare executive presentations, steering committee reports, decision papers, and progress updates.

• Coordinate governance meetings and maintain action, decision, and approval records.

• Identify risks affecting timelines, budgets, and compliance, and coordinate mitigation plans.

• Support negotiations and manage interfaces with suppliers, advisers, and strategic partners.

• Work with business functions, IT, and Procurement to evaluate, pilot, and implement digital solutions.

• Identify and implement process improvements across programme workstreams.

• Support vendor sourcing, evaluation, and contracting with Procurement.

• Identify programme resource needs and coordinate the recruitment or sourcing of required capabilities.